Stumbled over a collection of stories and accounts of dialogue being used in a variety of mediation and conflict resolution settings. The author of this site refers to four different types of dialogue: Positional or adversarial dialogue Human relations dialogue Activist dialogue Problem solving dialogue The site is hosted by the Online Training Program on Intractable Conflict, which is no longer in existence, but the archive of which makes for some interesting reading [tags]conflict, mediation[/tags] Photo by .ash
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Found in some email conversations lately, three systemic methods for communicating well: Internal Family Systems Non-violent communication Systems-centered training Photo by Susan NYC
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Several people on the National Coalition for Dialogue and Deliberation list have been noticing the line taken by US Presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hilary Clinton regarding engaging in dialogue with Americans. Both candidates have launched their campaings with a promise to engage Americans in conversations to learn more about what’s on the collective mind. Obama: For the next several weeks, I am going to talk with people from around the country, listening and learning more about the challenges we face as a nation, the opportunities that lie before us, and the role that a presidential campaign might play in …
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In the last couple of weeks I have been in deep and important conversations about the work of facilitating change in the world. I am just back from another Art of Hosting gathering, this time in Boulder, Colorado and, among the many many things that were on my mind there, the subject of talk and action came up. This was especially a good time to have this conversation as this particular Art of Hosting brought together many deep practitioners of both the Art of Hosting approach to facilitating change and the U-process approach to action and systemic change. …
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One of the key skills in deliberative dialogue is figuring out what we are, together. This is often called “co-sensing” or “feeling into the collective field.” There are many ways to talk about but the practice is on the one hand tricky and subtle, and on the other, blazingly obvious. In general, in North America and especially among groups of people that are actively engaged in questions about co-sening the collective field, a speech pattern I have notcied goes something like this: I feel that we need to… My thoughts are that we should… I just throw this out there …