One of the new ideas I came acquainted with at the SoL Global Forum at Muscat was The World Cafe. It's a methodology to create dialogues and conversations about issues that really matter to us. It includes a couple of principles to follow in order to enhance the level of the dialogue between people:
- Set the context
- Create a hospitable environment
- Explore questions that matter
- Encourage everyone's contribution
- Connect diverse perspectives
- Listen together for patterns, insights and deeper questions
- Harvest and share collective discoveries
You can read more about the 7 principles in detail.
This method can be practiced by any group of people at any place. You can start a dialogue with your family in your living room, with a group of friends in a cafe or your collegues at the office. Diversity of the people can add value to the conversation. Through this methodology, a group of people from different cultures, generations or industries can come up with great solutions for the problems.
I also found the following video which is a short introduction to The World Cafe:
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