What is Coaching Café?
Coaching Café Conversations are an intentional way to create a living network of conversation around questions that matter. A Café Conversation is a creative process for leading collaborative dialogue, sharing knowledge and creating possibilities for action in groups of all sizes.
The challenges of life in the 21st Century require us to find new ways to access the wisdom and intelligence inherent in groups both small and large. The need for collaboration, insight and coordinated action has never been greater. Café Conversations are one way that communities, businesses, governments, and people from all walks of life are using to create a common purpose, share knowledge, make more intelligent decisions, and call forth life-affirming action together.
The methodology of the Coaching Café is simple: The participants are broken up into tables of four in an ambient setting and initiate conversations around questions that are important to them. Participants move round to other tables leaving a host at each table who shares their previous group’s conversation, adding new questions from other participants. A the end of the 3 to 4 rounds emerging themes, insights and learning is captured on a flipchart creating a collective intelligence of the group.
The facilitator’s job is to create the platform for discussion, encourage and guide the participants and debrief the participants on the conclusions found from the activity to provide meaningful observations. Our purpose is to show the value of coaching, from the intelligence gathered from the group as a whole and not as specific individuals.
In Coaching Café, the formulation of powerful questions is a fundamental art and skill. Questions like “What’s important to you about this situation, and why do you care?” and “What are we not seeing (or talking about) that is vital to our progress?” can open up new possibilities and energy.
The seven design principles of Coaching Café:
- Set the context
- Create hospitable space
- Explore questions that matter
- Encourage everyone’s contribution
- Cross-pollinate and connect diverse perspectives
- Listen together for patterns, insights, and deeper questions
- Harvest and share collective discoveries
Once we have completed the Coaching Café, we will work with your executive teams for 2 Days. Each group taken thru the steps to become effective coaches. This tool is valuable in the world of performance and takes your entire team to a new and exciting level.
Coaching Café: unlimited numbers, 3 hours duration: 50,000 Baht
