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Most people think of dialogue simply as a word for a conversation between two or more individuals. But dialogue can actually be more than this and help us to develop into a collective of meaningful thinkers, overcoming envy, distrust and inner conflicts.

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The quantum physicist David Bohm uses the term "dialogue" in its most pristine meaning. „dia“ means „through“ and „logos“ means „the meaningful word“. The term therefore means flow of meaningfulness and disclosing yourself to meaning around and through people. Dialogue shall enable to go deeper into personal preconditioning, ideas, assumptions, beliefs and emotions that subliminally dominate our interactions. The dialogue is therefore neither discussion, debate nor dispute. Discussions, in the proper sense of the english word roots „percussion“ or „concussion“, tend to tear or dismember, even if they were started to build consensus. On the other hand dialogue is not a harmonizing aesthetic conversation exercise.

Dialogue is not about prevailing, „scoring points“, rhetorically shining and winning with your own opinion. It's about creating benefits and new discernments and gathering intelligence for all involved in a creative environment.

The process of dialogue is a tool to make clear how our process of thinking takes place. It is assumed that all human creations, our systems of values, our behavior, our language, our architecture, our entire culture and technology, and yes in fact even what we believe is the most incontrovertible reality, are all manifestations of how we think. This assumption leads to the perspective, that if we really want to scrutinize today's crisis phenomena, we have to scrutinize the different layers of thinking.

Thinking, not only in the sense of conscious intellectual results from conscious learning processes but also emotions, feelings, wishes, intentions, presumptions, fears. Also the so called rational thinking is meant, as a result of preceded thinking processes, that interpreted reality in paradigms and worded it into rules.

It is historically confined and influenced by sex, power and culture related traditions.

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I visited a series of seminars and actually I can call myself a „dialogue facilitator“. Although I am not practicing this kind of facilitating, I learned really a lot about myself and others and about the potential humans have when really cooperating. It was a very enlightening experience.

The effectiveness and power of this "new" way of thinking has already been proven by the

Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet
^{winning the}
2015 Nobel Peace Prize

Dialogue is a set of cognitive tools for human interaction and also a whole new attitude towards thinking and listening to each other. It's about learning and self-mastery and commitment. It is, for example, a good exercise to jump out of your body in your mind's eye and "watch" yourself from above, your behavior or arguments in a conversation. Also you need to practice to let go all assumptions and prejudices and sometimes even all expectations. You have to always wonder „Why am I thinking the way I do in this moment?“. You need to observe the observer and learn that it is OK to be wrong or vulnerable or emotional.

If I show myself open, without being afraid of the reactions of others, then some will feel attracted and others won't. But who's going to love me, if no one knows me. I have to dare it or I'll be alone.

^{Sheldon B. Kopp}

But the most important aspect in my opinion is slowing things down, to hear out each other and to take the time it takes sometimes to think about something. In a real dialogue there isn't always somebody talking, sometimes there is the silence of thinking.

^{If you want to learn more, visit the}
European Network for Dialogue Facilitation

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