Communication · Executive Insight Brief · 434
Recurrence is not a mandate
World Café uses rotating small-group conversations and a shared harvest to make ideas travel across a large group while keeping participation, interpretation, and decision authority explicit.
Premise
World Café is a facilitation architecture for large groups that need more interaction than a plenary can provide without isolating people in fixed small groups. Participants move between tables, carry arguments and experience into new conversations, and encounter repetition or contradiction before a shared harvest. The method expands the field of conversation; it does not convert recurrence into a vote, prevalence estimate, mandate, or implementation decision.
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What these mean
Editorial orientation · Family
Tool
In this series, Tool names the editorial family primarily used to act on, examine, measure or organize communication. It includes instruments, methods, practices, protocols, codes and institutional arrangements. Membership does not certify effectiveness, portability or safe use in every setting.
Editorial orientation · Category
Intervention Methods & Practices
Organizes actions intended to facilitate, plan, train, negotiate, coordinate or change a situation. It connects a practical purpose with a way of working, whose conditions and consequences must be examined.
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