We recommend the following reading for deepening your understanding of the ideas behind the World Café:

The World Café: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter. By Juanita Brown with David Isaacs and the World Café Community.

The World Café: Living Knowledge Through Conversations That Matter. Doctoral dissertation by Juanita Brown.

The World Café: A Resource Guide for Hosting Conversations That Matter. By Juanita Brown and the World Café Community, illustrated by Nancy Margulies.

The World Café: Living Knowledge Through Conversations That Matter. Lead article published in the Pegasus Systems Thinker magazine July 2001

Café to Go! A concise Guide to designing World Café conversations.

The Art of Powerful Questions: Cataylzing Insight, Innovation and Action. By Eric Vogt, Juanita Brown and David Isaacs.

Going deep:

Bibliography from The World Café: Shaping Our Futures Through Conversations That Matter with live links for all references used in the book– to either the original source or Amazon.com

Additional Articles:
NOTE: The following articles are in PDF format. You'll need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to read them.

Asking Big Questions. By Juanita Brown, David Isaacs and Nancy Margulies. From The Dance Of Change. Peter Senge, et al editors.

Building Corporations as Communities: Merging the Best of Two Worlds. By Juanita Brown and David Isaacs. From The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook, Peter Senge, et.al eds.

Conversation As A Core Business Process. By Juanita Brown and David Isaacs. Published in The Systems Thinker, from Pegasus Communications. December-January 1996-1997.

Mindshift: Strategic Dialogue for Breakthrough Thinking. By Juanita Brown and Sherrin Bennett. From Learning Organizations: Developing Cultures for Tomorrow's Workplace. S. Chawla and J. Renesch eds.

Seeds of Knowledge adapted from The Knowledge Evolution: Expanding Organizational Intelligence. By Verna Allee.

Strategic Questioning: Engaging People's Best Thinking. By Juanita Brown, David Isaacs, Nancy Margulies and Eric Vogt. Published in The Systems Thinker, Pegasus Communications. November 2002.

The World Café: Changing the Future One Conversation at a Time. By Juanita Brown, David Isaacs and Nancy Margulies. Unpublished working notes.

The World Café: Catalyzing Large-Scale Collective Learning. By Juanita Brown, David Isaacs, Nancy Margulies and Gary Warhaftig. From Leverage Magazine, published by Pegasus Communnications, Cambridge, MA, September 1999.

Strategic Questioning: An Approach to Creating Personal and Social Change. By Fran Peavey.This book is no longer available, but there is an extensive article on Fran's wonderful website: Crabgrass

The Conversing Company: Its Culture Power and Potential. By Alan Stewart. Paper presented at the First World Conference for Systemic Management.

What's So New About the New Economy? By Alan Webber published in The Harvard Business Review (Jan-Feb, 1993): 24-42. Downloadable for a nomial charge

A number of articles are also available in translation.

Related Books:

Allee, V. (1997). The Knowledge Evolution: Expanding Organizational Intelligence. Boston, Butterworth-Heinemann.

Atlee, T. (2003) The Tao of Democracy: Using Co-Intelligence to Create a World That Works for All. Cranston, R.I. The Writer's Collective.

Baldwin, C. (1994). Calling the Circle: The First and Future Culture. Newberg, OR, Swan-Raven & Co.

Capra, F. (1996). The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems. New York, Anchor Books, Doubleday.

Cooperrider, D., Whitney, D. and Starvos, J. (2003) Appreciative Inquiry Handbook. San Francisco, Berrett-Koehler.

Ellinor, L. and G. Gerard (1998). Dialogue: Rediscovering the Transforming Power of Conversation. New York, John Wiley & Sons.

Garfield, C., C. Spring, et al. (1998). Wisdom Circles: A Guide to Self-Discovery and Community Building in Small Groups. New York, Hyperion.

Grant, D. and C. Oswick, Eds. (1996). Metaphor and Organizations. Thousand Oaks, CA, Sage Publications.

Helgesen, S. (1995). The Web of Inclusion: A New Architecture for Building Great Organizations. New York, Currency/Doubleday.

Lambert, L., D. Walker, et al. (1995). The Constructivist Leader. New York, Teachers College Press, Columbia University.

Lewis, Sarah, Passmore, Jonathan & Cantore, Stefan (2007). Appreciative Inquiry for Change Management: Using AI to Facilitate Organizational Development. Kogan Page Ltd. (Juanita has a chapter in this book)

N'Ha Sandra, J. and Editors of Utne.Reader (1997). The Joy of Conversation: The Complete Guide to Salons. Minneapolis, MN, Utne Reader Books.

Oldenburg, R. (1989). The Great Good Place: Cafés, Coffee Shops, Community Centers, Beauty Parlors, General Stores, Bars, Hangouts, and How They Get You Through the Day. New York, Paragon House.

Russell, P. (1995). The Global Brain Awakens: Our Next Evolutionary Leap. Palo Alto, CA, Global Brain, Inc.

Schrage, M. (1990). Shared Minds: The New Technologies of Collaboration. New York, Random House.

Wenger, E. (1998). Communities of Practice, Canbridge University Press, 1999

Wheatley, M. J. and M. Kellner-Rogers (1996). A Simpler Way. San Francisco, Berrett-Koehler.

Wheatley, M.J. (1994). Leadership and the New Science. San Francisco, Berrett-Koehler.

Wheatley, M.J. (2002) Turning to One Another: Simple Conversations to Restore Hope to the Future. San Francisco, Berrett-Koehler.

Zimmerman, H. (1996). Speaking, Listening, Understanding. Hudson, NY, Lindisfarne Press.

Zohar, D. and I. Marshall (1994). The Quantum Society: Mind, Physics, and a New Social Vision. New York, William Morrow and Company.

NOTE: In the event that one of the links above has expired you may want to try http://www.bookfinder.com – It is one of the best book search engines we've found.