World Café Session

1. Improving Population Health:
Collaborative Strategies that Work
2017 Practical Playbook National Meeting
May 31 – June 2, 2017
The Westin Washington, D.C. City Center

2. World Café: Using Open Space:
Conversation-of-the-Whole-Room

3. Going from Healthcare to Health:
having some fun in the process.

4. To start, I would like you to
consider a “question-to-run-on”

5. Quietly, please write down for yourself:
“What is the one thing that I wish had
been covered already in the meeting?
- Caveat 1: And I do not want to go home
without having addressed it somehow.”
- Caveat 2: And I am willing to share some
leadership with a group to address this topic.

6. Open Space
(Take a deep breath, smile, get ready)

7. Participants Get to Convene Sessions on Topics Participants Want to Address!
• Questions You Need Answered
• Offers and Stories You Want to Share
• Requests That You Want to Make to Others
• Topics That Need Discussion
What Happens in Open Space?

8. We Have Room for
Multiple Groups to Convene

9. Open Space Plan
• Decide If You Want to Convene a Session

10. Open Space Plan
• Decide If You Want to Convene a Session
• Create a 5-Word Title (or shorter)

11. Open Space Plan
• Decide If You Want to Convene a Session
• Create a 5-Word Title for It
• Conveners Line Up to Say Your Title

12. Open Space Plan
• Decide If You Want to Convene a Session
• Create a 5-Word Title for It
• Conveners Line Up to Say Your Title
• We Will Designate a Place For You

13. Open Space Plan
• Decide If You Want to Convene a Session
• Create a 5-Word Title for It
• Conveners Line Up to Say Your Title
• We Will Designate a Place For You
• When All Sessions Are Named, Audience “Votes With
Their Feet” to Choose a Session and Join It

14. Open Space Plan
• Decide If You Want to Convene a Session
• Create a 5-Word Title for It
• Conveners Line Up to Say Your Title
• We Will Designate a Place For You
• When All Sessions Are Named, Audience “Votes With
Their Feet” to Choose a Session and Join It
• Convene and Discuss the Topic ~ 45 minutes

15. • What if no one comes to my session?
Questions & Possibilities

16. • What if no one comes to my session?
• Can participants roam among sessions?
Questions & Possibilities

17. • What if no one comes to my session?
• Can participants roam among sessions?
• How do we know when a session is done?
Questions & Possibilities

18. • What if no one comes to my session?
• Can participants roam among sessions?
• How do we know when a session is done?
• What if we have identical or similar topics?
Questions & Possibilities

19. (Conveners may line up at the microphones when
you are ready – please come up as we continue.)
Examples of Titles:
• Establishing Effective Community-Engagement
• Exchanging Outcome Evaluation Ideas/Methods
• Conducting Evaluations/Measurement of Impact
• Merging New-Traditional Outcomes Evaluations
• What can we do fast?
What is Your Short Title?

20. Session Titles
We probably can accommodate 10 groups or so
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• 2.
• 3.
• 4.
• 5.

21. Session Titles
If you want more groups, we can work this out.
• 6.
• 7.
• 8.
• 9.
• 10.

22. Signature Style: we can teach
you how to do this back home.
Ahmed Calvo, MD, MPH
Director, National Leadership Fellowship, Haas Center for Public Service,
Stanford University; Senior Fellow, Thought Leadership and Innovation Foundation;
Senior Medical Officer, Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
avcalvo@mac.com - or acalvo@hrsa.gov