Design, Develop, Create

Tuesday 19 September 2023

Exercise: World Café (and Word Cloud)

World Café exercise

The World Café: A method to learn from and harness the power of groups.


4/5 people per group max

#1. Find words. Individual activity – 7” quiet, write notes.

#2. Share. Connect, cluster, name, move, organize, link

  This happens on a shared wall/whiteboard

#3. Assign champions.

#4. 10”/round. Others move around over three rounds. Champion gives each a voice. Champion facilitates a conversation. Champion helps scribe.

  First move; second move; third move.

#5a. 3” Champion synthesis. Devise a single key discovery and debrief to the wider group.

#5b. Alternate synthesis. 30" arrange a coffee break for the participants and the champions to come together to harness the materials that were gathered during the group rounds. Create a distillation/synthesis by drawing, sketching, writing, and/or typing up, a sense-making dialogue or cartoon or flow diagram or combination of all, to present by way of debriefing to the wider group. Will you ask them to create a combined synthesis or separate?

Word Cloud. An extra step, visualising words

What are the challenges of digital innovation?

Enter your response in the following form.

Admin to paste and share the results in the word cloud generator (free and requires no download).