... conversations so difficult and describes good learning conversations that it calls “System 2 conversations.” Such conversations are a higher level of talking or conversing called “dialogue.” High-quality connections at work help build the kind of relationships that enable System 2 learning conversations...

...This chapter studies the role of dialogue in Richard Linklater's cinema. Out of many themes that are common to Linklater's most emblematic films, including the impossibility of distinguishing between what is real and what is not, dialogue is the most determinant factor in its form, content, meaning...

...This chapter focuses on the sustained dialogue model. Sustained dialogue is a carefully designed and rigorously implemented process for transforming dysfunctional and conflicting relationships. Each participant makes a serious effort to take one another’s concerns...

...This chapter discusses the success of the International Institute for Sustained Dialogue’s (IISD) training on sustained dialogue in various groups and communities. The IISD had trained local communities to conduct sustained dialogue to deal with issues ranging from race relations and youth violence...

...This chapter examines the application of dialogue and deliberation in the fields of social work education and practice. In the field of education, numerous proposals about social work journals in relation to active citizenship through greater integration of public deliberation and sustained...

...This chapter describes the social justice program at West Virginia University (WVU) and the role of dialogue in the program. WVU is a comprehensive, land-grant institution with approximately 27,000 students. In the 1980s, it established the President’s Office for Social Justice—an office...

...This chapter discusses family therapy in relation to the first two stages of a sustained dialogue. Family therapy is a psychotherapeutic applied within families in order to nurture development. Just like a sustained dialogue, family therapy aims to change patterns of interaction and relationships...

...This chapter addresses the problem within the practice of public deliberation and sustained dialogue in social entrepreneurship. Most of the time, when dialogue occurs, conflict is resolved and violence is prevented or minimized; when deliberation among citizens takes place, engagement happens...

...This introductory chapter provides the historical background of sustained dialogue and public deliberation. Over the past three decades, the two modes of public conversation have been developed with the aim of strengthening civil society and the fabric of the social commons. Serving as assistant...

...This chapter discusses two forms of interaction: sustained dialogue and public deliberation. Sustained dialogue and public deliberation are forms of structured human interaction that address, name, and frame issues of mutual concern. These approaches involve processes of deliberative democracy...

...This chapter discusses the notion of social capital and explains how it helps in the practice of a dialogue. Social capital is the social dividend gained from meeting, talking, and acting with others. It provides an opportunity for “checking out” whether people are likely to act in the way...

...This chapter explains the importance of public deliberation and dialogue in public management. Managers and officials at all government levels must be greatly skilled in participatory approaches; thus, public deliberation and dialogue can contribute significantly to effective public management...

... thought about the Jews unable to forgive the Nazis and goes on to suggest that the occupier is not pure evil; it is possible to understand him and his motives. In his view, asking forgiveness from the Palestinians is the place to start a dialogue, and so he chose Arafat because he is the Palestinians...

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...This book has explored issues of race, ethnicity, and Hispanic/Latino identity by focusing on the debate between Jorge J. E. Gracia and fifteen prominent scholars. In conclusion, Gracia reflects on the importance of dialogue in philosophy, citing as an example the dialogues of Plato, where...

... is an alternative tradition within existentialism because its focus on dialogue opens a trajectory of thought that is markedly different from the mainstream of Western philosophy. A distinctive Jewish school of existentialism is most widely associated with Martin Buber and his philosophy of dialogue, introduced...

...This chapter discusses the concept of social technologies to examine the use of dialogue and deliberation within the context of higher education. Social technologies are named, structured processes developed over time and honed through repetition and refinement. There are two types of social...

...This chapter concludes that sustained dialogue and democratic deliberation may be seen as part of an ongoing intellectual movement that finds a basic test of democracy in the quantity and quality of the public dialogue that it engenders. The two practices are at the heart of the concept...