A Socrates Cafe is a public meeting where community members gather to have philosophical dialogues. Philosophical dialogue is a conversation that keeps exploring questions and wonder without conclusion. The document provides examples of different types of questions that can be asked to keep a philosophical dialogue going, such as built-in assumptions, embedded concepts, and degrees and levels. It emphasizes listening first before sharing opinions and asking open-ended questions to continue the discussion without judgment or pushing any particular viewpoint.

1. WHAT IS
A SOCRATES CAFE?

2. Socrates Cafe happens as public meetings where
community members gather together and have
philosophical dialogues.

3. What is a philosophical
dialogue in a Socrates
Cafe?

4. Philosophical dialogue is a conversation that
keeps going, it lives in wonder and questioning.

5. How to ask questions?

6. Built-in Assumptions
(a question to the question)
(the WHY thing)

7. How to listen to your heart ?
• Why would you like to listen to your heart?
• Why should we listen to our hearts?
• Is listening to our hearts something that we should (want to) do?
i.e.
Why would you like to talk about that?

8. Embedded Concepts
(questions to the main parts of the question)
(the WHAT IS THAT? thing)

9. How to listen to your heart ?
What is a heart?
Who are we?
What does it take to listen to a heart?
i.e.
Why are you talking about?

10. Degrees & Levels
(questions to degrees and levels of things)
(the HOW thing)

11. How to listen to your heart?
• How often should we listen to our hearts?
• Shall we listen to our hearts every day?
• Will that be ok, if we listen to our hearts at times?
• What is the difference if we listen to other things?
• What is more important: to listen or to act?
• What shall go first: listening or acting?
• How hard shall we listen? What shall we hear to understand that we have
listened well enough?
• What can we hear if we listen to the hearts of each other/one another?
i.e.
How different is that? / How intensive is that?

12. How to keep the conversation going?

13. 1) Listen
2) Ask questions
3) Share opinions
BUT: listen, first
You can always ask
a question if you
think you have
nothing to say.

14. How to listen to your heart?
Q1
O2
O1
O3
O6
Q6
Q4
Q13
Q14 Q5
Q2
Q3
Q6
O8
O7
O5
Q12
Q9
Q8
Q6
Q10
Q11
O4
O9
This is where we are already
talking about intuition.
This is where we are already
talking about numerology.

15. How not to kill the conversation?

16. •Accept all opinions
•Do not judge opinions
•Accept all questions
•Do not preach or teach
•Do not conclude or give advise
•Take aside prejudice and bias
•Do not bull
•Do not seek any truth or push your truth trough