"World Cafe Evenings in Japan"

I recently interviewed Kazuo Katori, a key World Café steward in Japan & founder of Mindechoe, about the monthly "World Cafe Evenings he has been hosting to support his regional community and respond to interest about the World Cafe there.

Here is a link to download the audio file form our interview, followed by a written summary that Kazu sent earlier.

MP3 File

Mindechoe has been hosting a series of the World Café events since the beginning of last year under the name of “The World Café Evening”.

The purpose of The World Café Evening is to provide opportunities for those who want to experience the World Café. Recently the World Café has become quite popular among various sectors in Japanese business as well as communities, and many people talk about the benefits and attractiveness of such conversational methods. But as it becomes popular many people want to know where they can experience the World Café by themselves. So Mr.Katori, president of Mindechoe, decided to provide opportunities to sample the taste of the World Café for them”

Mindechoe is hosting the World Café Evening event regularly once every month. Anyone can join the event with the cost of \500, so that it is often called “One Coin World Café”.

So far most of the participants have been Japanese. But Mindechoe wants to have more diverse participants. Working language is Japanese but there are many English speaking Japanese participants who can support non-Japanese speaking participants.

Topics discussed at The World Café Evening so far include the following:

・Diversity

・Globalization

・Power of dialogue

・New social trends

・Enriching women's professional life

・Mobile information environment

・Life style in longevity society

・What gifts we should pass to the next generations

・Tempered radicals

・Reflecting the year 2014

Usually we have twenty to thirty participants.

Participants are very diverse such as

・Business people

・Management consultants

・Market researchers

・Nurses

・School teachers

・Retired business people

・Professors

・NGO, NPO

Calendar for 2015

Feb. 17

Mar. 24

Apr. 21

May 26

Jun 23

Jul. 21

Sept. 15

Oct. 20

Nov. 17

Dec. 15

Topics and venues to be announced

Please access Mindechoe’s face book page for detailed information.

https://www.facebook.com/pages/Mindechoe/ (English)

https://www.facebook.com/everydayworldcafe (Japanese)