I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
What is a »good« conversation?
By learning how to become aware of a shared space between us we can discover new traits in our own being that have not been previously conscious to us: humility, empathy, and a developing sense of awareness of the deeper qualities of life.
A genuine dialogue practice has the potential to bring us together as human beings in ways that are not pre-conceived and that can bring forth innovative ways on finding a deeper, solution-based relationship to life.
Living dialogue – The art of joint exploration
What does it mean to think together? What does it mean to truly listen?
From where do our spoken words unfold?
How can we develop a dialogue-oriented attitude and apply it to all areas of life?
In these workshops, we want to explore together, with practical exercises and a touch of theory, what it means for every single one of us to be responsible, thoughtful and creative when speaking with others and how we can arrive together at deeper insights and sometimes surprising solutions.
Contents:
Introduction to and experience of dialogue and the dialogical attitude, based on various lines of dialogue.
Nourishing fields.
Difference to debate and discussion.
Exploring the space of not-knowing.
Practicing and experiencing of dialogue in smaller and larger groups.
Exercises for listening and for holistic perception.
Exercises for dialogical communication and behavior and dialogue core competences.
Methods:
Working one on one, in small groups and plenary sessions with group discussions and reflections
