Dialogue as a Means of Collective Communication (Paperback, 2005)

INTRODUCTION 1. Dialogue: Conversation as Culture Building and Consciousness Evolving Patrick M. Jenlink and Bela H. Banathy SECTION I: FOUNDATIONAL PERSPECTIVES OF CONVERSATION 2. Wholeness Regained: Revisiting Bohm's Dialogue Lee Nichol 3. Martin Buber and Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogue of Voices and the Word that is Spoken Maurice Friedman 4. Designing Communities of Ideas for the Human Well-being Ioanna Tsivacou 5. Dialogue and Spirituality: The Art of Being Human in a Changing World Danny Martin 6. Building A Conscious Group through Deep Dialogue Maureen O'Hara and John K. Wood 7. My Dialogue with Dialogue Maurice Friedman SECTION II: PERSPECTIVES OF DIALOGUE CONVERSATION 8. The Five Dimensions of the Practice of Bohm's Dialogue Mario Cayer 9. Facilitating a Global Conversation through the Universal Demosophia Facility Matthew Shapiro 10. Becoming Aware: A Dialogical Approach to Consciousness Maurice Friedman 11. Doing and Talking: Two Sides of School Alexander Sidorkin 12. Bohm's Notion of Dialogue: Examining the Philosophical Roots Linda Ellinor 13. Carnival and Dialogue: Opening New Conversations Alexander Sidorkin SECTION III: MODALITIES OF CONVERSATION 14. Post-Formal Conversation Raymond A. Horn, Jr. 15. Future Search Conversation Karen Norum 16. Dialogue and Improvisation: Developing Capability for Highly Effective Conversations GlennaGerard 17. The Conditions for Thriving Conversations Kathia Laszlo and Alexander Laszlo SECTION IV: PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF CONVERSATION 18. A Community Round Table: An Experiment with Self-Organizing Conversation Judith Bach 19. Conversation in the Corporate World Diane Gayeski and Gordon Rowland 20. Conversation and the Development of Learning Communities Kathryn Kinnucan-Welsch and Patrick M. Jenlink SECTION V: REFLECTIONS ON SEARCHING TOGETHER FOR THE FUTURE 21. Creating Future Societies: Reflections on Searching Together Bela H. Banathy and Patrick M. Jenlink Index