ASWB’s Strategic World Café: Broadening

Our Understanding of Mobility

Mary Jo Monahan, MSW, LCSW

Deana F. Morrow, PhD, LPC, LCSW, LISW-CP

World Café Concept

• Explore questions that matter

• Insight and discovery through dialogue: a living network of conversations

• Explore in-depth and find creative possibilities

• Engaged participation is vital

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“A good question is never answered. It is

not a bolt to be tightened into place but a

seed to be planted and to bear more seed

toward the hope of greening the landscape

of ideas.”

˜ John Ciardi

Primary Assumption

• ASWB members have within

them the wisdom and creativity

to think together in focused

conversations to create possibilities

for large-scale systemic change in

social work practice mobility.

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Purpose• To synthesize and integrate new knowledge and

insight from Spring Meeting sessions on mobility by

exploring, through dialogue, a series of questions

that matter

• To make new discoveries and cultivate ideas that

will create tipping points for change in social work

practice mobility

• To guide the ASWB Board in setting a direction for

social work practice mobility

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World Café Process

• Small groups of people assigned to 6 tables per

breakout room

• A table host will facilitate table discussion on an

identified question (20-25 minutes)

• Each table host will then move to the next table for

further exploration of the question

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• Three rounds of discussion in total

• Each table will explore three different

questions

• All six questions will have been explored

three times by the conclusion of discussions

Café Etiquette

• Focus on what matters.

• Contribute your thinking.

• Speak your mind and heart.

• Listen to understand.

• Link and connect ideas.

• Listen for insights and deeper questions.

• Play, doodle, draw at your table as ideas emerge

• Have fun!

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Questions That Matter

1. Competency Standards & Equivalency

2. Jurisdictional Board/College Communication and Collaboration

3. Jurisdictional Board/College Discipline

Processes

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Questions That Matter

4. Technology

5. Supervision, CE and other Application and

Renewal Requirements

6. Stakeholder Engagement & Advocacy

Efficiencies for Our Process

• Table participants will not change tables;

table hosts will move to new tables for each discussion round.

• Listen for the gong to signal when it is

time for the next round.

• Questions?

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Break (30 minutes)

• Participants: Fun time; Yoga time Ohmmm; Go and enjoy your break!

• Table hosts will meet to merge their notes from the discussions

• Table hosts will prepare feedback to be shared with the full group in town-meeting style during the World Café Summary session.

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Relax and trust the process

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Source Credits

• The World Café Presents: A Quick Reference Guide

for Putting Conversations to Work (2008).

http://www.theworldcafe.com

• Hurley, T.J. & Brown, J. (2009). Conversational

Leadership: Thinking Together for a Change.

Systems Thinker. 20, 9, 2-7.

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