Over the last few years people in different parts of the world have experimented with group dialogue to test its potential. Dialogue sets up a practice field for an inquiry into our relations and values. Its underlying premise is that the patterns of thought and behavior active in large groups have some similarity to those creating turmoil in the larger world. We focus attention on those patterns of thought and interacting that freeze and block the free flow of communication in the group and those that release it. To identify, share and integrate the deeper sources of meaning that may results is what dialogue makes possible.
Dialogue starts little insurrections in the area of our convictions.
We learn how difficult it is for us to communicate in groups and why that is so. It discloses how we are trapped by the stories we were told and keep telling ourselves, holding insight at bay. How we are identified with our take on how things are. How our listening and speaking is conditioned by fear and need. How we take or surrender power and responsibility.