The Art of Hosting Café Conversations

As more companies look towards engagement, the transactional relationship between employee and company becomes redundant.  It’s now about people and communities.


Benefits of attending
the workshop

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Understand this creative process for leading collaborative dialogue

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Find new ways to share knowledge and create possibilities for action in groups of all sizes

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Access the wisdom and intelligence within your organisation

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Explore how to create a common purpose, share knowledge and make more intelligent decisions for creative action

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Discover how this process is used to address many organisational challenges

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Discover the art of creating powerful questions as one of the defining features of strategic dialogue

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Discover stories of actual café dialogues in business, education, government, and community organisations in South Africa and across the globe. This workshop demonstrates how the café conversations can be adapted to any setting or culture.

Who should attend?

The workshop is aimed at HR, OD Practitioners, Facilitators, Trainers and Managers who would like to breathe life into organisational change and support businesses through challenging times: to create an opportunity for meaningful dialogue for cultural shift, transformation, sharing of ideas and creative action.

Workshop Facilitator

Melanie Kiley, who has worked as a Senior Human Resources Manager for The Foschini Group and is an organisational development consultant, will lead this workshop.

Melanie has 18 years of experience in working with people and companies to facilitate growth and transformation. 

As a master café conversation facilitator, she believes in the power of conversation as a catalyst for change and for the creation of new realities and culture transformation within organisations.

She has hosted numerous cafés, with the outcome of engaging all the stakeholders to harness their collective intelligence, speed up their acceptance of change and rebuild their optimism. 

Date: Thursday, 7 April 2011
Time: 08:30 - 16:30
Registration: 08:00
Cost: R 2,600.00 + VAT
Venue: Nitida Wine Farm,
Tygerbergvalley Rd (M13), Durbanville