Dialogue
“In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh
What is dialogue?
By "Dialogue" we mean the kinds of conversations that change something in us when we take part in them, and that shift something between the people who are involved in the conversation. Dialogues invite us to take the “risk” of being authentic and to co-create a space where others can do the same. Dialogues are about challenging our habits of thought and conversation: listening with attention, speaking with intention and daring to turn the camera around to face ourselves and the roles we might have within the systems we are trying to change.
The Dialogue Space is a space where we try to learn and understand not through facts or intellectual knowledge, but through seeing another perspective through the eyes and story of someone else, and through getting a new sense of the broader ecosystem that the discussed issue is part of.
We understand Dialogue as a toolbox, a communication & relation technology as well as a lifestyle.
Every dialogue is a tailored flow of communication techniques which accompanies the individual and the group process.
Our connection with the method
Our Practitioners Circle and some of its members have been part of the Dialogue Facilitation training as well as facilitated Dialogue Evenings.
We have run a Dialogue Facilitation Training in 2018-2019, where participants trained to deepen their skill sets of holding space for different dialogue formats.
Dialogue Workshops for training to be in dialogue are offered regularly. Find out more on the platform.
Toolbox & articles
Find descriptions of tools and our experiences with them in our open-source toolbox: