The very fact I reached out for help seemed surprising to all. Fortunately clearer heads prevailed and I received strong support and encouragement from other Canadian and Ukrainian colleagues. Clearly there is an intellectual understanding among some of my colleagues about the importance of dialogue in achieving civil society through CD and liberatory adult education. There also is an intellectual understanding of the appropriate process skills. The challenge for Canadians and Ukrainians is to acquire the confidence to walk this talk by learning the techniques and methods of liberatory adult education, and then practising them in the classroom and Online.
Dialogue is impossible without supporting behaviour, integrity and mutual respect.
I could not have survived the pilot delivery of my course in Lviv without the generous support from a couple of Canadian and Ukrainian teaching colleagues. Powerful relationships were established and are proving to be sustainable with the passage of time despite cultural differences and physical distance. This phenomenon becomes the most valuable legacy of the project as the network of conversations gains a life of its own. Ending Rather than the usual conclusion, I end this paper about CD in Ukraine with a challenge I have issued to my colleagues calling on us to reflect on and act upon what we are learning together. Up till now, the various parts of the project have existed in a fragmented way.