Sunday, January 22, 2011 (0900-1800 ET), at Jacksonville, FL
Facilitator: David Ing (see coevolving.com)
By the end of day on January 22, the working group will provide input that will be further developed at sessions scheduled at two meetings:
The central theme to be explored is:
The output should be packaged in form as a series of index cards (e.g. presentation headline and content):
Central Question
Guidance
Work products should sufficiently self-explanatory so that future workshop participants (who are not present today) will be able to pick up the thread. (David Ing will be present at both events only as a reference resource, due to priorities with other responsibilities.)
The work products can be appended to this wiki page.
All content should be available over the Internet. Partipants are encouraged to bring laptops and/or tablets.
Baseline
Proposed extensions
Future directions
Banathy (1996) proposed that generative dialogue should
…lead to the creation of collective consciousness, collective inquiry that focuses on the thoughts, values, and worldviews of the group and creates a flow of shared meaning, shared perceptions, a shared worldview, and a social milieu of friendship and fellowship. (p. 219)
Strategic dialogue alone can, of course, produce results. These often happen quicker, at less short-term expense, and with less involvement by different stakeholders than through generative dialogue. Recapping from above, though, it assumes that:
As described by Banathy (1996), generative dialogue is not meant to replace strategic dialogue, but to precede it (see Metcalf, 2008). By acting on the environment in which strategic dialogue is to take place, generative dialogue opens possibilities by creating a deeper sense of understanding between the people involved, which often leads to new connections between ideas or ways of thinking, and a sense of trust which makes the sharing of ideas feel less threatening that it might otherwise. When effective, generative dialogue fosters a sense of shared commitment amongst the individuals involved. As changes occur at a strategic level, they are less likely to be dismissed as “someone else’s problem,” and more likely to be attended to by those who feel a vested interest in them. [Metcalf 2008 (at journals.isss.org)]
To start off a generative conversation ...