Home 
 1. Beginnings 
 2. Dangers Thinking Alone 
 3. Capacity for New Behavior 
 4. Predictive Intuition 
 5. Architecture of the Invisible 
 6. Spiral 
index_img1.gif Dialogue
1. Beginnings
2. Dangers Thinking Alone
3. Capacity for New Behavior
4. Predictive Intuition
5. Architecture of the Invisible
6. Spiral
graphic

Two Ways: My Way or the Highway

graphic 

graphic

This is the group who has helped me  to refine what I understand about Dialogue.

graphic

This is what I mean by conversational space.

graphic

This is what I mean by a Discipline of conversation. That just means a way of thinking and speaking together.

graphic

When I think of stones and languages this is the image I think of.

Prologue:

During my travels with Dialogos I have surmised the following:
      • Dialogue is about a shared inquiry, a way of thinking and reflecting together.
      • It is a living experience of inquiry within and between people.
      • The most important parts of any conversation are those that neither party could have imagined before starting.
      • It seeks to harness the “collective intelligence” of the people around us.
      • You must develop it within yourself and model it for others before you seek to apply it.
      • It is a conversation with a center, not sides.
      • It is a flow of meaning.
      • It is a conversation in which people think together in relationship.
      • It attempts to bring about change at the source of our thoughts and feelings, rather than results that our thinking produces.
      • The intention of dialogue is to reach new understanding—in doing so we form a totally new basis from which to think and act.

Dialogue is a mode of exchange among human beings in which there is a true turning to one another and a full appreciation of another person, not as an object in a social function, but as a genuine being. (Martin Buber, 1914).
Top