THE YOUNG:
- Build a gracious nation starting with the young ones
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- Work more in café dialogues with young people and international cafes
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THE NEIGHBOURHOOD:
- Neighbours having a World Café (Kopitiam) on helping old folks and
underprivileged kids in their housing estates
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IN THE SCHOOL WITH THE STUDENTS:
- Classroom online chat during e-learning week
- About topic of week
- Meet the lecturer / seniors
- Start of semester
- About Staff / School
- About what students want as they start the learning journey
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- I will bring the concept of worldcafe back to my school and try to convince the
management to have this worldcafe for different groups of teachers and
management at least once a month
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- Create a school as a Centre for world café. For the parents, teachers and
stakeholders (community)
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- Good to see “World Café” setup in every community hosted by schools.
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- Do world café with my students’ small groups. They can learn from each other.
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- Schools to become centres for community revival.
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- Apply the World Café in my son’s school parent support group; Use the World
Café in gathering ground feedback on government policies.
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AT THE WORKPLACE:
- Reigniting people’s passion of talking and creating meaningful conversations at
the workplace
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- Bringing the concept of World Café back into my department and
organization. I’ll probably try it out with a learning event first. Will try to
introduce the concept for corporate workplan planning advance
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- Invite more housing agents to join the World Café to find a better way to
work closely in future.
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- I’m in the process of convincing my organization to try the world café process
for our Staff Townhall, which has been auditorium style with confrontation
Q&A
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- Share the principles of World Café and use it when I chair meetings.
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- Use the World Café process to seek ideas, feedback, perspective’s on issues
that are important to my organization more frequently.
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- New essentials for Leaders: design, convene and host conversations.
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- "Being" training; "conversation" training
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- One thing I want to do: Share the essence of World Café to my organization
and start trying that conversation when opportunity arises “Believe that will
happen with you”.
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WITH BUSINESS, NGOS, ETC. COMMUNITIES
- One thing I will do as a result of World Café today: Collaborate with at least 1-7
others to create cross-disciplinary “cafes” and special events with action
steps to follow – including but not limited to business people, NGOs, artists of
different disciplines, scientists and technology people, healthcare workers,
activists, environmentalists, education, animal rights people, etc.
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- Brand giving as a way of living that creates a spiral between givers and
receives.
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IN CLUBS:
- I belong to a ‘resource panel at a club. I am going to use the World Cafe
format to generate plans and ideas
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ON GOVERNMENT POLICIES:
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- Ground shaping the aspirations instead of being shaped.
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- What if parlimentary debates were conducted world-cafe style
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- HDB-led "Cafes" for communities that lead to action
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WITH THE WORLD AND ANYWHERE ELSE:
- To create the “World Café” within my organization, family and friends to share
communication / conversation
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- To transform it into a “virtual World Café” connecting people around the
world; Host World Café through tele-conferencing
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- When in doubt to strike a conversation, talk anyway – with someone, a
stranger, a colleague, a fried, a family member
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- More conversation between people from different disciplines, ages,
perspectives, cultures, etc.
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IN RELATIONSHIP:
- Using World Café to build / nurture relationships
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FOR MYSELF:
- I will personally commit to bringing my full attention to each conversation;
Organizationally I will integrate and create space for World Café in our
envisioning, planning and connecting. Thank you.
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- My intention is to hold a world café within 2 years’ time with people from
other cultures and countries; my intention is also to act on my intentions
moving forward to bring the intentions into being.
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- Participation from Diversified Crowd Creates Opportunity and Creativity
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- It’s really a interesting World Café talk (Kopitiam Style talk). This is my 1st
time to join with this kind of forum style. However, it’s really meaningful and
useful in the future; “The World Café”, I’ll come again.
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- Let the conversation flow naturally without barriers, without fear. Listen and
be listened!
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- “Replace my ego with We-go”; Participate in Sing Skype Exchange; Enact
“Branding of Giving As Just a Way of Living”
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- Heart to heart rather than head to heart.
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- Not afraid to speak up, not afraid to listen
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- Bring back / trust the human nature for meaningful conversation : persevere /
believe / suspend.
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O = Openness
P = Participation
A = Action
C = Creativity
C = Consolidation
O = Opportunity
D = Diversity
S = Success
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“Let a thousand voices SPEAK.
And a thousand flowers BLOOM.
For knowledge and openness is what the heart SEEKS.
For more love and understanding is what are needed to feel our ROOMS.
From an integrated resort to a Singapore integrated society” Patrick Ang
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Sincere appreciation to Juanita and David for planting the seeds of World Café and
all who contributed to the great success of today’s events. Excellent sharing of
knowledge! Very applicable!
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