Tool Kit

Interested in convening and hosting a World Café? These free resources will guide you through the process. Taken together, they cover everything from considerations related to the design of the café, physical set-up of the café environment, creative application of the café design principles, and much more. All you need are people and a place to meet!

Café to Go! This concise guide to the World Café covers the basics of the World Café process. It includes brief outlines of each principle, a description of Café Etiquette, an outline of key elements of the World Café conversations, and tips for creating Café ambiance.

Café To Go Translations: Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Portuguese, Slovak; "Mini" Café Guidelines: Somali, Russian; World Café Principles, Russian; Café Know How, Spanish, What is the World Café?, Spanish

Additional resources for hosting include The World Cafe Resource Guide and The Art of Powerful Questions (both are available through our Store in English)

In translation: The World Cafe Resource Guide is available free in Italian and The Art of Powerful Questions is available free in French and Spanish

World Café Checklist. This helpful checklist of materials you may need for a World Cafe was compiled by World Café Foundation Chief Chef and Bottle Washer, Barbara Krohn. It also details some of our favorite sources for materials.

Image Bank. Here is a variety of graphic support materials created by talented World Café reflective visual artists to support you in hosting successful World Cafés.

You are welcome to download and use the items in this World Café Tool Kit to suppport your personal and free community work. Please contact us to ask for permission and terms if you are using them professionally or in any other capacity.

Your donation to the World Café Community Foundation helps us keep these materials freely available and is deeply appreciated.