2024 Banathy Conversation + CSRP Institute AGM

The 2024 Banathy Conversation is scheduled for Lugano, Switzerland, beginning on Sunday, September 29, 2024, and ending on Friday, October 4.

Participants in the Conversation can plan for the event with more detailed descriptions under:

• Booking (including Lodging, Registering, Routing, Unwinding)

• Equipping (including Apple-Platform, Google-Platform, Alternative-Platforms)

• Engaging (including Connecting, Agreeing, Gathering, Exploring, Reflecting, Recollecting)

The Conversation centers on Gathering, Exploring and Reflecting, in-person, over six days.  Activities preceding and following the residential event are conducted on Google Workspace.

The Call for Participation was released in May 2024.

What is a Banathy Conversation?

Systems inquiries inviting international participants for a residential learning experience had have a long history in Austria.

• Under the auspices of Bela H. Banathy, meetings starting in 1982 were led by the International Systems Institute in partnership with the International Federation for Systems Research started.

• The International Federation for Systems Research continued biannual events from 2000 to 2014.

• Official Proceedings of the IFSR Conversations are available as open access from 2000 to 2014.

• The 2016 Conversation was published as a Book on Demand.  Chapter 3 is available as an open access accepted manuscript.

The Banathy Conversation, as implemented by CSRP Institute, derives from the original intents of early convenings.

"Bela Banathy defined a conversation as being:

• a collectively guided disciplined inquiry,

• an exploration of issues of social/societal significance,

• engaged by scholarly[1] practitioners in self-organized teams,

• who select a theme for their conversation,

• which is initiated in the course of a preparation phase that leads to an intensive learning phase."  [Dyer (2016), p. 5]

[1] "Conversation methods as described here are no longer restricted to those involving “scholarly practitioners”. The techniques described are equally applicable to any context where the aim is to draw on the creative capacity of everyone involved. Hence it can be applied to a business context where there is genuine openness to contribution from all."

CSRP Institute draws on the techniques and experiences of Banathy Conversations, extending pre-residential and post-residential activities with Internet communications technologies.

Reference

Dyer, Gordon. 2016. “Guidebook for Designing and Sustaining Effective Conversation.” International Federation for Systems Research. http://archive-ifsr.org/publications/conversations/, cached at drive.lab.csrp.institute.

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