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Watch our special event videos: the Bechtel Lectures, Mennonite Literature series, the Eby Lecture, and the Sawatsky Lecture.
Conversation cafés occurred after the concurrent sessions on Friday and Saturday (June 10 and 11) to provide an opportunity for attendees to sit down together around the guiding questions. The café used a modified World Café format. The café was facilitated by Jennifer Ball, Rod Friesen, Paul Stucky and Esther Epp-Tiessen.
As the café team observed, this was the one place where there was purposeful conversation on the questions. Concurrent sessions involved presentations with Q & A opportunities but this was the one session that allowed for people to interact directly with each other and offer their experience, insights, and wisdom.
On the first day there were nine tables of six, and the second day there were seven tables of six. For the organizers, it became clear that what was most important was the actual discussions and less the outcomes that we could report back. It was about creating a space for rich conversations where there could be exchanges and cross fertilization of knowledge, experiences, and ideas.
It was at times hard to draw people out of their own conversations into these conversations. The cafés were, however, our attempt to tap into the wonderful conversations people were already having with each other throughout the conference.
Each of the tables doodled as they talked, and the café team typed up the notes and created the following wordles (word doodles) to capture the conversations over the two days in response to the five questions.
For those interested in the café model, there are lots of resources available at the global café website.
Watch our special event videos: the Bechtel Lectures, Mennonite Literature series, the Eby Lecture, and the Sawatsky Lecture.
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