Dialogue… ever so timely; again and still:


“…[there is] a growing recognition that the complex problems our organizations and societies face, demand a deeper listening and a more open communication than has been the norm…

…foster reflectiveness…

…allowing multiple points of view to be. Our habits are so strong to defend our view, to agree with views that correspond… to disagree with views that differ…

…’The thing that mostly gets in the way of dialogue…is holding to assumptions and opinions, and defending them…

…We do not know how to live together in a changing world. We only know how to live based on truths from the past…

…when one human being tells another human what is ‘real,’ what they are actually doing is making a demand for obedience…”

Peter M. Senge. Society for Organizational Learning and MIT (January 13, 2004) as a Preface to David Bohm’s Routledge Classic reprint of his 1996 “On Dialogue”. A text introducing practical tools for thinking and listening together, with diversities.