Dialogue With RCS: Notes about the new kind of communication being used by many.
I
am kind of starting in the middle of this dialogue practice stuff
because I do not know where the beginning is. Come to think of it, I
believe that there is no end to it either. Is there and end to the
practice of medicine? Maybe, but so far, when the career of one doctor
ends another doctor continues the practice.
The
practice of medicine is important. By reading on you may discover that
many consider the practice of dialogue more important than that of
medicine. The practice of dialogue is certainly serious. It is also
interesting and fun.
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Plunging right into a serious part of dialogue practice I can say the following:
After
a time of dialoguing we can better understand how a certain opinion or
assumption of another participant has come to be held. That's serious
isn't it? Have you never thought to yourself, "How can that person have
such a belief or opinion!?"
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Dialogues
of the kind I have been speaking of have been called Dialogue For
Peace, Magic Table Dialogue, Fair Fighting dialogue, and just plain
Dialogue Practice. I have thought of calling it Dialogue For the
Creation and Preservation of Culture, but have not done so until just
now. This practice has also been call a Listing Practice.
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I have been writing these bits about dialogue as though we were the dialogue practitioners and plan to continue doing so.
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We
will bring our assumptions to our dialogue for peace practice group for
it is impossible not to bring them. Those assumptions will come up.
Our purpose is not to judge them, not to suppress them, not to believe
them or to disbelieve them.
Our
purpose is not to see them as good or bad. Our purpose is to listen for
them, to hear them, to recognize them, and to accept their existence.
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There
are lots of rules for good dialogue practice, but not much enforcement
of those rules. One may take them as very valuable suggestions.
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The idea in our practice group is not to change anyone's mind.
The
aim is try to see what each assumption means. The purpose is to
understand the experience which gives a particular assumption it's birth
and which supports it
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So
we are here coming to see that dialogue practice entails a listening
practice of a group of listeners. One person talks for a bit and gets to
be well heard. Than another talks and is well heard. We all become
better listeners. Some have mistakenly thought that a
dialogue practice is only for and between two persons. In our dialogues
there are many great listeners who all listen to one person at a time.
You will be that person who is well listened to and well heard.
Thank you reading. Your visit is important.
RCS
