World Café Journée Ressources

The Background

On 30 November 2008, Association Ressources, a French non-profit, hosted the Journée Ressources, an Open Day on Well-Being.  

Journée Ressources  gave hands-on experience to the general public, adults and youngsters, on various techniques  enhancing well-being.  24 professionals offered free workshops, demos, and lectures under these resourceful themes: Art, Body and communication.

Coach for Peace was involved in the organisation of this event and some of its members (Stella de Carli, Saba Imru, Myriam Mayer, Jean François Mathieu) participated as workshop leaders or lecturers.

The Journée Ressources had many visitors and was very successful, it received good feedback and excellent reviews in the local press.

An original debriefing session for the exhibitors and volunteers of Journée Ressources 2008, in the form of a

World Café !

Having actively participated in the organisation of the Journée Ressource 2008, Coach for Peace proposed an atypical debriefing session, one that would take the conversation into new levels of collective creativity through the use of The World Café model (Juanita Brown & David Isaacs).

This model has been used extensively and successfully in government, industry, business, social networks, non-profits, and universities  as a generative dialogue process.

The conclusions of the World Café Journée Ressources will be published in an e-book as a record of proceedings and as a sample of the wonderful results that can be produced with this extraordinary conversation model.