Espresso Café Espresso has more caffeine per unit volume than most coffee beverages

Sometimes, particularly in a conference, there is not enough time to run a full Knowledge Café. An Espresso Café can be run in as little as half-an-hour. 

The duration of a Knowledge Café can last from 1 to 3 hours but it can be run in as little as 30 minutes. I call this an Espresso Café.

The Espresso Café process could not be more straightforward:

• The host gives a short talk, concluding with the question. (5 minutes)
• The participants are asked to reflect silently on the subject. (2 minutes)
• The participants are invited to turn to each other in twos and threes to discuss the question. (10 minutes)
• If the participants are sitting at small tables in groups of 3 or 4 turning to each other in twos or threes is not necessary, but often at conferences, people are sitting in groups of eight or so at large round conference tables or in neat rows in a lecture theater.
• The host brings the whole group back together to share their thoughts. (10 minutes)
• The host asks the participants to write one actionable insight on a card. The host gathers the cards. (3 minutes)
• After the event, the host collects in the cards. And a day or two later the distributes a summary of the insights to the participants by email.

This process is the essence of an Espresso Café, but of course, you can tweak it in all sorts of ways.

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