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The World Café is a way of organizing conversation so that a group can hear itself think. Since the early 90's this world wide method has created the conditions for people to connect across boundaries, share what they know, and discover what they did not realize they knew.
People meet in small groups of four or five. They begin with a question that matters, one that invites more than a yes/no or opinion. After a set time, people move to a new table. One person stays as the host to share what has already been said and welcome the next round. This continues for several cycles, so ideas travel through the room and are shaped by many voices.
The format borrows from the informality of a café. The tone is conversational, not procedural. It relies on the power of small groups to open up thinking and the movement of people to connect those conversations into a whole. This is not about fixing a problem in a single meeting. It is about creating a living network of conversation, one that people feel they own, because they helped to make it.
The World Café works because it is built on a simple truth: people already hold a wealth of insight, experience, and imagination, but these rarely surface in the meetings and forums that are supposed to bring them out. In most organizational and civic gatherings, a small number of voices dominate, conversations are framed too narrowly, and the physical set-up communicates formality rather than connection. The World Café disrupts these patterns.
For the first World Cafe at Chesterfield Baptist, we’re gathering people who care about the future of our Active Lifestyles community at CBC to explore what’s possible and decide where to focus our energy. Your perspective will make this conversation more complete, and your presence will help shape the steps we take next.

Location

Chesterfield Baptist - Pavilion at Chesterfield Baptist Church