Without passion there is no energy to drive discovery. But passion is where the creative juice is, where the caring is, where everything that is truly important lives. It just needs help to break out of fixed ideas and preconceptions long enough to become aligned with the passions of other people. This generates the power needed to realize shared visions and solutions. The emergence of true breakthroughs is seldom neat and pretty.
All creativity is messy, some is fun.
But if we're going to get through the messy parts, we have to hang in there. Deep dialogue isn't a method. It is a quality of inquiry and conversation characterized by interest, listening and respect. It can be achieved by agreement, by group culture, by practice, by accident or by facilitation. Sometimes it is ten minutes.