Designing a public conversation using the World Café method

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Report image: World Café at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas

06 June 2011Leaders talk about holding large-scale public conversations, but they won't succeed if the methods are unsatisfying for participants, if an authentic conversation occurs at all. In this paper, Lyn Carson presents the World Café method, a viable way of involving large numbers of people in a meaningful, conversational exchange. She describes how a particular World Café event was designed, and then explore the value of the World Café method as a means to achieve social change.

Report image: The Hon. Fred Chaney AO chaired the panel for theWorld Café at the Festival of Dangerous Ideas, Sydney 2010.

Publication typeReport
Publisher TypeJournal
CoverageAustralia
Permanent URLhttp://apo.org.au/node/25064
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