World Café Journée Ressources
World Café Journée Ressources
Association Ressources.
The purpose of this World Café was to
debrief the Journée Ressources 2008 strength bonds between Journée Ressources participants create new synergies and a common vision for the future generate ideas, initiatives and plans engage in innovative ways of working together
Creating
a hospitable space is one of the main ingredients of the World Café
secret recipe for making the best of each of us surface in a collective
value-creating generative conversation.
Each participant was welcomed personally, coffee and chocolates were served, a small candle lit at each table which came equipped with large sheets of paper to doodle on, colorful felt tips, a talking stick in the form of a potato :-), and a beautiful picture card illustrating the café principles.
After becoming acquainted with the World Café process and principles, the group was ready to go !
Four questions served as guiding beacons for this world café, to give a general orientation for the conversations.
What made the Journée Ressources a success ? What is the deeper meaning of the profession or passion you have chosen ? What impact do we want to have, individually and as a community, on the quality of life in our region ? What are the first steps that you want to take in this sense ?
Each
question was explored in a 25-minute conversation by the world café
participants seated at tables for four. At the end of each
conversation, partipants changed tables (leaving one person as a
permanent host) and continued on to another table for another round of talking and exploring
together.
The
world café participants explored community and personal values in
questions 1 and 2 and made links between their deeper sense of meaning and the
results that this can produce in practical terms such as in the production of the Journée Ressources and other activities.
After the second conversation, participants were invited to visit the "gallery" of the data harvested from the café up to that moment (the drawings, flipcharts, post-it notes, doodles), and to notice the common trends or new ideas.
Question 3 invited the participants to create individual and collective visions for the future, to determine desirable goals, taking into account the impact and legacy that they want to generate. Question 4 was a call for action and it resulted in the establishment of four concrete projects for the group to undertake.
The
main ideas and conclusions were
collected on post-it notes written by the participants and in the
doodles they made on the larges sheets of paper on their tables.
Manuel Chopard, visually recorded the essence of the discussions and
facilitators Saba Imru and Pascale de Senarclens marked the key ideas
on fliphcart paper. See all the visuals .
The group's observations were shared in a rich town meeting style plenary conversation that revealed a deep commonality in shared values and the ability to anchor concrete projects on these.
The story of this world café is told on this website and will be compiled in an e-book for free distribution.