Group Dialogue

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Session 2: Integral Group Dialogue about the Integral Framework

Group dialogue about personal insights and inquiries

Use the assignment in the studyguide or print this 20090304_Handout_with_dialogue_session.doc‎ assignment for the dialogue session.

Important Introduction

Bring your summary of chapter 1-5 of the Integral Vision to the session. Anouk Brack will take a look at it before we start the session. In this session we will divide into groups. If you don't bring proof that you are prepared you will be asked to leave. Because a group dialogue is meant as a common exploration. This will not work optimally if one half of the group is trying to explain everything to the other half before being able to dialogue together about it.

In this session we will practice a different way of working together called “dialoguing”. You need to prepare yourself for it. Read and do this assignment carefully because both truly understanding the framework and conducting a fruitful and inspiring dialogue about it, is an academic and intellectual challenge to all! Start by reading this explanation:

Dialoguing explained dialoguing website

Dialoguing is a different way of being together than having a debate, a discussion or even a conversation. It is more inquisitive and exploring. We can awaken it again by slowing down our thinking and allowing ourselves to be more inclusive, fluid and tentative in our thoughts. This, in itself, creates the kind of peripheral vision that allows for the more improvisational and creative dimension of our thinking to emerge. The practicality of this is implied by Gary Hamel when he says, "The critical lack in businesses today are not resources or strategies, but imagination." The imagination is revitalized by acknowledging the truth of what is real. The new leaders will be those who are able to create spaces and processes for skillful conversation. Through surfacing the underlying images and structures of our thinking, and making the implicit explicit, we create the possibility of re-imagining ourselves, our organizations, and the quality of our work. Through such practices as listening openly to one another without resistance, of framing questions which lead us in the direction to the mystery rather than to the answers, of following the subtle impulse of our thinking and inquiry, by suspending, examining, and reconsidering the validity of our own assumptions and beliefs and examining many different points of view, and reclaiming our capacity for an immediate and first-hand experience through touch, taste, hearing and sight, we begin to establish a dialogic relationship with our world.