If You're New to TWC

If you're new to the World Cafe, first of all - Welcome!

If you want to learn more about the World Cafe, and this community, please have a look at the World Cafe website, and in particular you might check out our free Café to Go! booklet (cafetogo.pdf) to get a good sense of what the World Cafe is and how it works.

One of our most basic assumptions is that all the knowledge and information we need is available to us as a collective, so every voice is valuable and needed, including yours!

Our basic agreements about how we interact in the online community of practice are based on World Cafe Etiquette:

• Contribute your Thinking
• Focus on what really matters to you
• Speak with your Mind AND your Heart
• Listen to Understand
• Listen Together for patterns, insights and deeper connections
• Link and Collect Ideas
• Slow down so you have time to think and reflect

We hope you will find this community to be a place where you can relax and share what is most meaningful to you; to find insights to deepen your learning and new friends to collaborate with.

If you have questions about the World Cafe process or this community, please contact us at info@theworldcafe.com, or post your comments below.