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What is Dialogue?
Dialogue is a balance of advocacy and inquiry. Advocacy is reasoning with supportive data. Inquiry is suspension of reason and exposing your mental models and heart, giving the other person a "window to your reasoning" and to your humanity"
Good Dialogue Is...
  • ...an Exchange of ideas and experiences that is so active, effective, highly charged that it leaves none of the participants unchanged.
  • means learning to suspend one's opinions and judgments in order to truely listen to one another.
  • requires staying in the dialogue, even when one's closely held beliefs are challenged.
  • requires all participants to contribute from where they are - even half-formed ideas.
  • can result in divergent views converging, discovering a new social intelligence.
What is the Difference Between Dialogue and Debate?
Dialogue
Discussion and Debate
To inquire and to learn To tell, sell, peruade
To unfold shared meaning To gain agreement on one meaning
To integrate multiple perspectives To evaluate and select the best
To uncover and examine To justify/defend assumptions