The narrative centers on Juanita Brown, who navigates the challenges of single motherhood after two failed marriages. Driven by her childhood memories of food scarcity, she draws inspiration from her grandmother's cooking to ensure her children never experience hunger. As a mother, chef, and businesswoman, she shares her journey of resilience and determination, highlighting the importance of family and the transformative power of food in overcoming adversity.
The World Cafe is a flexible, easy-to-use process for fostering collaborative dialogue, sharing mutual knowledge, and discovering new opportunities for action. Based on living systems thinking, this innovative approach creates dynamic networks of conversation that can catalyze an organization or community's own collective intelligence around its most important questions.Filled with stories of actual Cafe dialogues in business, education, government, and community organizations across the globe, this uniquely crafted book demonstrates how the World Cafe can be adapted to any setting or culture. Examples from such varied organizations as Hewlett-Packard, American Society for Quality, the nation of Singapore, the University of Texas, and many others, demonstrate the process in action.Along with its seven core design principles, The World Cafe offers practical tips for hosting "conversations that matter" in groups of any size- strengthening both personal relationships and people's capacity to shape the future together.
Das WORLD CAFE ist ein innovatives Verfahren zur Förderung kooperativer Gespräche, zum Austausch von Wissen und zum Entwickeln neuer Handlungsmöglichkeiten. Der flexibel einsetzbare Ansatz ermöglicht das Entstehen von dynamischen Gesprächsnetzwerken, die als Katalysatoren die kollektive Intelligenz von Organisationen, Unternehmen und anderen Gemeinschaften sichtbar und nutzbar machen. Die Autoren beschreiben in diesem Buch ausführlich die Kernprinzipien, die dem WORLD CAFE zu Grunde liegen. Vor dem Hintergrund ihrer langjährigen Praxis in der Beratung von Unternehmen wie Hewlett Packard oder Philip Morris, aber auch Regierungsstellen und kommunalen Einrichtungen geben sie jede Menge praktische Tipps und Hinweise, wie man Gespräche in Gang bringen kann, die wirklich etwas bewegen.