Five easy steps and you're on your way!
It's easy! Hosts welcome and orient people to the Conversation Café process. A good host is a cross between a flight attendant, a coach, a mother, an old philosopher and an innocent child.
Hosting is as simple as following instructions on a cake mix and as complex as making all guests comfortable at a dinner party. Hosts are NOT therapists, NOT shining examples, and NOT impartial facilitators. They are simply the steady, welcoming presence that allows a great conversation to happen.
If you would like to be a host, follow these simple steps:
- Download the host manual and read it. Read the Purpose and Principles that guide the Conversation Café method, too.
- Find a location and set a time and frequency.
- Notify us so that we can list your café in the online schedule and submit your form to register as a host and sign up for your host training. Click here to find out the information we need to list your CC on our website. We also need you to read the Pledge to follow the CC Process and Agreements and Purpose and Principles, print it out, sign it and mail it to CC Central at:
PO Box 1501
Langley, WA 98260- Let people know about your café (for publicity tips, see the host manual, Kat's article, or download fliers, handbills, even a template press release here).
- Show up on time with the process and agreements and a talking object, hold the space for great conversation, and whatever happens is OK. (For a list of other optional hosting helpers, see the host manual).
You might consider joining our online CC community for addtional support.
Go here for the basic