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title: "Innovative Approaches to Reconnecting Through Community Conversations: Conversation Café"
description: This field note explores the Conversation Café facilitation process, promoting small group conversations on a single question at a time.
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# [Innovative Approaches to Reconnecting Through Community Conversations: Conversation Café](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/field-notes/innovative-approaches-to-reconnecting-through-community-conversations-conversation-café)

 Written by [Dan Ritchie](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/field-notes/author/dan-ritchie) | Oct 30, 2023 9:30:49 PM

Field Note, Building Belonging, Community Engagement, Community Engagement, CBB, Digital Engagement

In recent years, shifting to a virtual community engagement environment has moved from being a mere option to being a necessity.

To address this change, the [Cities Deepening Community](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/citiesdeepeningcommunity?hsLang=en-us) team led a bi-weekly community of practice series in July and August 2021 that involved diving into ideas of deepening community using four different participatory processes that are adapted for online: Open Space, Conversation Café, Deliberative Dialogue and Fishbowl. 

This field note explores the Conversation Café facilitation process, promoting small group conversations on a single question at a time.

[View full post](https://www.tamarackcommunity.ca/field-notes/innovative-approaches-to-reconnecting-through-community-conversations-conversation-café)

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