Full Description
Dialogue as a Means of Collective Communication offers a cross-disciplinary approach to examining dialogue as a communicative medium. Presented in five parts, the book takes the reader on a journey of exploring the power and potential of dialogue as a means for communication. In particular, this volume comes at a time when the global society's attention has been directed to creating more productive conversations in the name of world peace and harmony. It provides a unique new work on dialogue that brings the reader into a "dialogue with dialogue", offering an opportunity to understand the communicative potential of dialogue. In the book, readers are introduced to five sections: Section I examines the historical and cultural perspectives of conversation. This examination helps to create a foundation for a deeper study of the emergent and salient aspects of conversation as it relates to cultural creativity and human systems design. Sections II offers the reader an examination of dialogue through different philosophical and theoretical perspectives as well as methodological ideas related to conversation. Section III explores different modalities of conversation and the application of design conversation within and across various types of design settings and human experiences. Section IV examines the field of practice as related to use of different forms of conversation. Here various authors will share their different approaches to conversation and their reflections and insights in using conversation in a variety of settings. Concluding the book, Section V reflectively examines the authors' contributions to the book and provides the reader with a focus on the future.
Contents
INTRODUCTION 1. DialogueConsciousness EvolvingPatrick M. Jenlink and Bela H. Banathy SECTION I: FOUNDATIONAL PERSPECTIVES OF CONVERSATION 2. Wholeness Regained: Revisiting Bohm's DialogueLee Nichol 3. Martin Buber and Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogue of Voices and the Word that is Spoken Maurice Friedman4. Designing Communities of Ideas for the Human Well-beingIoanna Tsivacou5. Dialogue and Spirituality: The Art of Being Human in a Changing WorldDanny Martin 6. Building A Conscious Group through Deep DialogueMaureen O'Hara and John K. Wood7. My Dialogue with DialogueFive Dimensions of the Practice of Bohm's DialogueMario Cayer9. Facilitating a Global Conversation through the Universal Demosophia FacilityMatthew Shapiro10. Becoming Aware: A Dialogical Approach to Consciousness Maurice Friedman11. Doing and Talking: Two Sides of SchoolAlexander Sidorkin12. Bohm's Notion of Dialogue: Examining the Philosophical RootsLinda Ellinor13. Carnival and Dialogue: Opening New ConversationsConversationRaymond A. Horn, Jr.15. Future Search ConversationKaren Norum16. Dialogue and Improvisation: Developing Capability for Highly Effective ConversationsGlennaGerard17. The Conditions for Thriving ConversationsKathia Laszlo and Alexander Laszlo SECTION IV: PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS OF CONVERSATION 18. A Community Round Table: An Experiment with Self-Organizing ConversationJudith Bach19. Conversation in the Corporate WorldDiane Gayeski and Gordon Rowland20. Conversation and the Development of Learning CommunitiesKathryn Kinnucan-Welsch and Patrick M. Jenlink SECTION V: REFLECTIONS ON SEARCHING TOGETHER FOR THE FUTURE 21. Creating Future Societies: Reflections on Searching TogetherBela H. Banathy and Patrick M. Jenlink Index
