The World Café: Listening to, Listening for, Listening with
Questions for focusing collective attention:
1. What is important to you about this issue, and why do you care?
Questions for Connecting Ideas and Finding Deeper Insight
2. What’s taking shape here? What are we hearing underneath the variety of opinions being
expressed? What is in the center of our listening? What is still missing from our conversation that needs
to be shared?
Questions that Create Forward Movement
3. What seed might we plant together today that could make the most difference in our class and in our
ability to talk about conversations that matter?
Adapted from Brown, Juanita and Isaacs, William. The World Café: Shaping Our Futures through
Conversations that Matter. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2008.