Conversation Cafe Essay

Adina, Maddie and I decided to be a team for the conversation café. We told one another to brainstorm a few ideas for a topic for the conversation café. Later, we created a Facebook group message to discuss about our ideas for the topic and use this method for our communication with another. We all agreed to use Adina’s topic: Is Clark preparing you for the future? First, we wanted to have our conversation café at the Maywood Lounge, but I thought it will be better to book a room at the library. Therefore, it will give us privacy and the place will be neutral everyone. They agreed and I booked Prouty room on the fourth floor for our conversation café. We used Facebook to inform Clark students about our event. We invited fifty one people on Facebook and eleven people showed interest and six people said “going”. We wanted to have our conversation before …show more content…
Since we could not have the event on a weekday before Thanksgiving due to our conflicted schedule, we could have held our conversation café on a weekend afternoon. Most college students are free on a weekend afternoon. It is very difficult to attract people to attend a conversation café when they are not benefited for it. Especially it is harder to have people who are not your friends. All the participants in our conversation café were females therefore I would have liked to have opinions of other gender. Also, all the students were domestic and we did not have any international students. They could have brought different experience to the table since some of them attended different school system. Similarly, I would like to have participants from different majors. All the participants did have different majors, but we were all in social science field. Furthermore we could have invited people from different class years to hear different range of feelings toward Clark preparation for its