Monday, January 31, 2022

Come to Terms With The Dialogue

Dialogue With RCS: Here are a half a dozen terms I have used to write of our dialogue groups


I have written a few words about each term to remind you of its meanings.

 

Assumptions:

                We have differing experiences and so differing opinions and assumptions.We have differing views because of who we are. We often come to interpret our worlds differently from one another. We develop conscious and unconscious ideas about the ways of the world which are difficult for others to understand until they know more of our experiences.

Defending:

             Without the abundance of shared cultural meanings good dialogue brings, it is unreasonable to expect a peaceful society. Defending our own or another's opinions keeps us from laying out our assumptions were we can all look at them and try to appreciate their meanings  and so keepings from productive and satisfying dialogue we want an need. It is shared deeper meanings we seek. Also defending our assumptions consumes the energy we could better use to achieve a clear understanding  of the assumption of another.

Go-under:

Without good dialogue we are likely to miss opportunities and lose understanding s. We are likely to miss out on good positions, to go under and lose out as individuals, corporations, families, nations, churches, parties. The shared meaning we gain in good dialogue helps us , maintain, grow, and strengthen party, church, nation, family, corporation, and self.


Coherent:

             For many, an important benefit of dialogue practice is experiencing the power of collectively shared meaning. Most ordinary talk in in society may well be called incoherent. Our dialogue practice is designed to promote areas of  coherence in the vastness of misunderstanding. The meanings we share a cohesion of understanding.


Group:

             Fora truly effective dialogue of of sufficient variety of viewpoint A group of between 15 and 40 seems optimal. It is possible to do preparatory work with a dedicated, active organizing group of say nine may be adequate. A long lasting group with regular meetings is called for.


Thinking Together:

Is a frequent result of a dialogue group and ought perhaps be a aim of your group. We learn to stay close to the same page and to carry each other's thoughts forward. Individuals sharing common meanings in a coherent way have power for peace and creativity. Thinking together coherently calls for dialogue sustained  long enough to to share a body of coherent meanings. 

You strengthen culture, create it enjoy it, and pass it on. That's what this dialoging is about.



                                                                    by Richard for you


English Language Practice

Dialogue With RCS: We have called it a Magic Table dialogue group. It could be called a dialogue for peace. It can also be an English language dialogue.

                As an English Language practice group our dialogue is a very productive way to practice any level of English. The beginning learner has a focused, listening practice, a focused hearing practice, important steps to good pronunciation skills.  At the same time the beginner is getting contextual understanding practice.

                This practice group can be of considerable interest to a native speaker of English. Such an English speaker can learn fun, empowering, culture enhancing rules of Magic Table Dialogue. He, or she, can also learn dialogue for peace skills for dealing with and appreciating the assumptions and opinions very different from his own. She can also make friends with individuals of a language and culture from her own.

                A typical learner of English can build his or her word power by hearing targeted words in context. She also learns to hear the pronunciation, enunciation, and accent of a variety of English speakers. She will hear a number of persons each speak a given word in their own way. A learner may choose to listen for, say, pronunciation or she may choose to focus on contextual meaning. Practice is the main aim here.

                Each participant also has opportunities to speak and to be heard. A speaker will have his speech heard by a very interested group of listeners. A speaker will be closely listened to as she expresses herself.

                Our dialogue is not a substitute for your other language studies. It is very appropriate supplementary practice. In learning to speak a language appropriate practice is necessary.


What's in it for you?
~ You can learn dialogue skills and get great productive practice in the use of English.
~ You can improve your listening skills.
~ You can practice hearing and understanding what is said.
~ You can practice using English with a group of persons of importantly similar interests.
~ You can practice using a language other than your own.
~ You can improve your understanding of a people and a culture.
~ You can experience many people listening to you with interest.
~ You can get to know others well in a safe atmosphere. 
~ You can learn to be understood as you speak English.
~ You can learn to be better understood by a variety of English speakers.

I believe that you can come up with other advantages and benefits available to you in our program of practice.



                                                                                    by Richard









 

Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Find Out More About The Dialogue

 Dialogue With RCS: Its a group of us talking together in a better way

 

            Our dialogue practice is designed to create areas of coherence in the vastness of misunderstanding. Most ordinary talk in our society may be called incoherent.
Often a major benefit of our dialogue practice is to experience the power of collectively shared meaning.

            To learn learn our dialogue takes ongoing practice. This practice we have called The Dialogue, Dialogue For Peace, Magic Table Dialogue. 
 

            The dialogue has rules which call for practice to develop proficiency. The rules need not be rigid, but they do point to correct practice  which is important.

            The first practice may be called a listening practice, but it calls for use of voice, as well as ears and mind.

             A result can be thinking together the dialogue is aimed at thinking together coherently. Thinking together coherently calls for sustained dialogue. Thinking together is both satisfying and the source of a great power. We believe that it is well worth the effort to practice. Thinking together is a learning and growth process. It occurs consciously and also on an unconscious level. It may be expected to take on a renewed honesty. Thinking together is a learning and growth process. It occurs consciously and also on an unconscious level. It may be expected to take on a renewed honesty.

            There were times and places when this kind of talk as common, but these days it is uncommon. I believe that it is urgent that we practice this sort of dialogue now. It is urgent that we practice a more effectively honest communication. By we, I mean everyone willing to practice the dialogue. This "we" is inclusive.

            There is much more to say and make clear about this dialogue, but I may have said enough here for now. There is a good deal more on this blog now and there is more on the way. 

            This blog is designed to be interactive and I am hoping to be reading and responding to your comments about the dialogue soon. Questions and requests count as comments. Check out the "comments' section its just below. Click on the word "comments" or on "no comments."

            Thanks for your visit and for reading.

 

 

                                                                                rcs

 

 

Saturday, January 22, 2022

A Dialogue Practice Group

Dialogue With RCS: Your Dialogue Practice Group


                I do not have a dialogue pracice group, but I can still write about them.

                In the kind of dialogue practice I write of there is no agenda in the ordinary sense. The purpose is mostly the practice. The practice is the honest and just sharing of meaning and development of coherence.  The group practices  certain methods and skills for thinking together. So in the practice there are practically no decisions to make. However skills may be honed.


                So, the practice is not without purpose, it is to practice skills and learn rules of effective dialogue. I hope that you will come to see how this mere practice builds and supports our culture even as we listen and speak.

                Over time the practice can evolve and change form. They take forms suggested by names such as Dialogue for Peace and Magic Table Dialogue. What ever the the name the skills stay much the same. I have begun to outline and picture an example of a beginning group in action and hope to continue doing so. The typical group may look leaderless from the outside because leadership is so widely shared. The group doesn't stall because a leader doesn't show up.

                People around the world are practicing a similar dialogue. However, you are unlikely to find an active group near you.  So, to have a group, you may have to participate in making it. You will probably need to speak with another about the dialogue. If the two of you find a third you may have started a group. You can talk it over, maybe discussing what it is a why you are interested, what it means, how you can do it, and like that.
                    
                Take a good look around this blog.
    
                 More to come.


                                                                                    by Richard Sheehan

 

Sunday, January 16, 2022

Practice English in a Dialogue Practice Group: ELGP

Dialogue Practice With RCS: Call it a Magic Table Dialogue Group. Call it a Dialogue For Peace group. Call it an English Language Practice Group.


                As an English Language Practice Group it can be easy enough to be practical and productive for a beginning learner; it can be enjoyable enough and culturally enhancing enough for a native speaker of English to keep her coming back; it is a focused practice of listening to, and hearing a variety of individuals speaking English. 

                So our "ELPG" helps a beginning learner to hear the sounds of English as he listens to a variety of speakers say a few sentences on a limited topic. He experiences a focused intensive listening practice. He also has opportunities to choose the topic. When he is taking English class elsewhere to he will see his learning exhilarate.

                This practice group can be of considerable interest to a native speaker. Such an English speaker can learn fun and empowering cultural enhancing rules of Magic Table Dialogue, she can also learn the Dialogue for Peace skills for dealing with and appreciating the assumptions and opinions perhaps very different from her own. She can also make friends with with individuals of a different language and culture than her own.

                The middle ground learner of English can build his own word power by hearing targeted words in context. He also learns hear the English of a variety of speakers rather than just the pronunciation and manner of speaking of the teacher. He will here a number of people speak a given word in their own way. Hearing and listening to this speech for, say, pronunciation and intonation is great language practice. This practice combined with hearing a  single word in a variety of sentences leads the learner into meaning and understanding in context. Practice is the main is the main aim here and listening is the principle practice. He will also get his turn by a very interested group of individual. He will say his few words. He will be listened to closely by the group.

                Our dialogue is not a substitute for other language studies. However, practice is super  important in learning a new language.

What's in it for you?
* You can improve your listening skills.   
* You can practice hearing what is said.
* You can practice using a language other than your own. 
* You can improve your understanding of language and people.
* You will be listened to.
* You will learn to understand a variety of English speakers.
* You will learn to be understood as you speak English.



                                                                                                               from Richard




Wednesday, January 12, 2022

Our Dialogue

Dialogue With RCS: About the Nature of Our Dialogue

 

                Our dialogue talk is designed to create areas of coherence in the vastness of misunderstanding. Often a major benefit of our dialogue is to give us a better chance to experience the power of collectively shared meaning which we have created. Most ordinary talk in our society may be called incoherent. To learn to do our dialogue talk, takes ongoing practice. This practice we have called Dialogue for Peace, Magic Table Dialogue, and just The Dialogue. The Dialogue has rules which call for practice. The rules need not be rigid, but they do call for practice which is important. 

                The Dialogue is aimed at learning to think together coherently. Thinking together coherently calls for sustained practice. An early practice may be called a listening practice, but calls for some use of your voice as well as of your ears and mind. Thinking together is both satisfying and a great power.  We believe that it is well worth the effort.

                This thinking together is a learning and growth process. It occurs on various levels of consciousness. It occurs in one, in mental talk to one's self, or even on unspoken levels. We could just say that a lot of learning goes on in dialogue our practice.

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                                                                                                    RCS

Saturday, December 25, 2021

What's So Special About our Dialogue Practice?

The title above is just one of the questions people have had about our dialogue practice.

     

                At first the answer seems to be "Not much; Mostly we sit around and listen." Then again it is amazing that such a practice exists. It is wonderful that it exists. 

                Then too, there are very special facts like: Our dialogue practice builds and maintains cultures! It supports world peace and peace in Colombia. It broadens participants' understanding. It brings increased meaning into our lives! It helps husbands and wives to better understandings!

                By checking out more posts on this blog you can find out a lot.

Here are a few other things which seem special about our dialogue practice just now:

~ We come to understand the opinions of others.
~ We feel that our practice is important.
~ We care little when nothing seems to be done.
~ We share meanings.
~ We may come to think together.
~ We sometimes find that our practice affects us at a deeper more beautiful level.
~ We become a better we.
~ We get to know important assumptions and opinions of others.
~ We become more skillful speakers and listeners.
~ Our understanding becomes broader, wider, and deeper.





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Saturday, December 18, 2021

Dialogue Practice Notes

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

 


Assumptions in Our Dialogue Practice

Dialogue With RCS: The question of assumptions for those who have begun the practice.

 

                Assumptions may not be the top reason for your interest in dialogue. Neither are they among the first human behaviors that drew me to dialogue. However, the greater my experience with the practice of dialogue the more important I saw my assumptions, and those of others, to be.

Below is a list of observations related to assumption:  

~ An assumption is much like an opinion or belief and probably as important.
~ As assumptions come up in our dialogue we avoid believing or disbelieving them.
~ Many of our assumptions are unconscious.
~ We want to better know what each assumption means.
~ Many of us want to more of the experiences which lead to the creation of  of the assumption. We want to know what is on each others' mind while keeping our conclusions and judgments in abeyance. 
~ We can each take in many assumptions and not our personal reactions to each of them.
~ We want to keep our dialogue on a level whereat our assumptions come out somewhat freely.
~ We what assumptions to be out where we can where we can all look at them with little discomfort.
~ In Magic Table Dialogue we put them on The Table as gifts from which each and all of of us can take as much and as many as we wish.

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Friday, December 17, 2021

Dialoguers Do it Better

Dialogue With RCS: some ground rules for group dialogue practice



1. Treat what you hear in confidence.

2. Others have the right to believe and feel differently from you.

3. Others have he right to express their beliefs.

4. You do not have to believe as others do.

5. Treat others with the respect that you expect for yourself.

6. While others speak, do not interrupt.

7. Share your own views from your own experience.

8. Do not pressurize anyone into speaking.

9. All participants' views and ideas have value. 


These rules have been useful for one group. They do not have to be mine or yours.


Other posts with information about dialogue include the following:




by R. Carroll Sheehan
 


Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Not a Public Forum

Public forums are great. Our dialogue practices are social, but usually not public. They are more focused on meaning and understanding than is much of our discourse.  


             A public forum is of great value to a people. It is a place for news and information to be exchanged, and may be a place to convince others of the value of one's positions. It may even be a place for economic or religious contention. Such forums are important tools of democracy, nation, and community.

        Members of dialogue practice groups often support public forums. The public forum is a place for the practice of free speech wherein the limits are so broad so that it seems that anything goes. The debate found there is often valuable. Our practice groups are less interested in bringing another to our point of view and more interested in truly understanding the meaning of what the speaker has said.

        In our dialogue groups we aim for higher levels of meaning, understanding, and ability to think together. We aim for greater respect and valuing for the assumptions and opinions of others. With appropriate modesty, we aim to better understand the meaning what others are saying for us.

        We like our group to be inclusive. We are interested in sharing peace, meaning, and understanding. In our groups we practice talking among ourselves using rules for, and ways of,  carrying on our talk effectively.

        To beginners our talk sometimes seems purposeless. We seem to have no agenda, to have little authority or hierarchy. However, with our rules, ways, and skills, we limit fear, anger, and contention as we enhance understanding, meaning, and peace. At times we are pleasantly surprised by evidence of a new power of thinking together.

        Check out the other posts on this kind of dialog on this blog. A new post is on the way.

        Thank you for reading.

        

                                                    by Richard Sheehan 
                    

Thursday, November 25, 2021

Assumption: "Talk is cheap"

 A new kind of effective dialogue is being practiced and I have been posting about it.     

                  Let me repeat just a bit about the nature of our dialogue before writing about "assumptions," an important concept for those who advance in dialogue practice.
 
                    A useful size for a dialogue group can be about 28, with considerable flexibility. A couple alone can benefit from its practice. Groups of 40 or more change in nature and come to be more of a demonstration group and calls for facilitators.   
 
                    This kind of dialogue is a unusually effective and needed way of communication. It takes some practice to learn to work it. However,  much can be learned about it right here.
 
                    A happening that is proving important in our practice is "assuming."  An assumption is much like an opinion, but one may be less aware of it. We have found that it takes some effort to put our learning about assuming into practice. It is not even easy to keep in mind that assumption can be active in our talk even when we are not aware of their activity. So, how are we to be aware of the assumptions of those we are talking with.  
 
                    Even so, we find our growing awareness of assumptions very interesting; very interesting, valuable, and enlightening.   
 
                    So, yes, there are those who are finding the benefits of 
practicing our "new" kind of dialogue. You can place yourself among them.
 
                    If you care to think of this dialogue practice as a kind of schooling you may see us as working at a kindergarten or primary school level. That is true, but our vision extends to beyond the post graduate level.

                    Assumptions are probably not among your top reasons for an interest in dialogue. They were not among the first human behaviors which drew me to the dialogue. However, as my experience with dialogue has grown, the more important I see our assumptions to be.

                    The list which follows deals with assumptions and how their workings can effect our talk and understanding:
~ Assumptions are learned much as beliefs and opinions are, from experience, our own experience and that of others.
~ As assumptions appeared to be mainly learned from experience, we are learning that, for example, the more one understand of her experiences and how she has interpreted them, the better are our chances for for respecting and loving her fairly and truly. The same seems true as we become more aware of our own experience and how we interpret it.
~ As assumptions come up in our advanced dialogues, we find it useful to avoid believing them or disbelieving them. We have found it best to first come to better understand them.
~ Our assumptions are often an important part of who we are. We tend to want to defend them, but have found it best not to try to defend our own and very important to avoid attacking those of another.
~ We are becoming more willing to know more of the experiences which led to the creations of an assumption of our own and that of another member of the group. No one has to feel obligated to share an experience, but a time may come when it is useful to do so.
~ We find that we can take in many assumptions and privately note our reaction to each of them and so come to know more about our-self as well as he who shared an assumption.
~ We do want to come to a dialogue level whereat assumptions can come up and out somewhat freely in advanced meetings.
~ We would like assumptions, our own and those of others, to come out where we can all look them over and understand them in some comfort.
~ Many of our assumptions are unconscious or pre-conscious. We find it beneficial to become aware of them.
~ We feel that knowing the meaning of each assumption helps us appreciate the opinions and positions of others.

                    A practice group may meet weekly for a year without a mention of an assumption and still learn much and realize much progress. Even so, most who continue their practice, come to feel the power an importance of assumption in their lives and in society. The become please to be aware of them as the come up in their group.

                    More about the nature and the practice of dialogue to come. Have you taken a look at the other posts on this blog?

                    Just below the end of this post you can find the word "comments" or even "no comments." By clicking their you can find a place questions and comments about the content above and even add to it! Please do so.
 
                    Thank you for reading.
 
 
                                                       Richard 
 

              

Saturday, October 23, 2021

Dialogue Practice: Hints for the success of your group

 Their are lots of rules, suggestions, and hints for effective dialogue dialogue practice. Let's call the few below hints:

~ In the very beginning it helps to have 7 or 8 interested persons willing to commit to 3 or 4 consecutive meetings.

~ During practice a person practices directing her words to the group as a whole and not to one or a few members at a time.

~ Remember that the speaker is likely to be doing his best to be honest.

~ You will have more than one turn. Avoid interrupting another. It uses the speaking time of others and reduces the effectiveness of your practice.

~ Keep expenses to a minimum. Everyone helps to take care of necessary expenses. Do your part.

~ Listen well to that which another is saying. Try to hear what she intends to say. Improved understanding is your aim.

~ Practice listening well and gain more powerful skills for hearing and understanding.

~Encourage each member to use his opportunity to say something at each meeting. The words of each member are gifts to each of us.

~ Usually limit speaking time to one or two minutes. It is great to have time to be heard more than once at a meeting. And, with your help there will be more meetings.

~ Remember that focusing your words on the topic and on your personal experience is good practice.

 

               These hints are for keeping your practice pleasant and effective. 

                Thank you for reading.



                                                            RCS


Friday, September 24, 2021

Terms for the Dialogue

Here are a half a dozen terms I have used to write of our dialogues.

I have written a few words about each to remind you about their meanings.

Assumptions:
We have differing experiences and so differing opinions and assumptions.We have differing views because of who we are. We often come to interpret our worlds differently from one another. We develop conscious and unconscious ideas about the ways of the world which are difficult for others to understand until they know more of our experiences.

Defending:
Without the abundance of shared cultural meanings good dialogue brings, it is unreasonable to expect a peaceful society. Defending our own or another's opinions keeps us from laying out our assumptions were we can all look at them and try to appreciate their meanings  and so keeping us from productive and satisfying dialogue we want an need. It is shared deeper meanings we seek. Also defending our assumptions consumes the energy we could better use to achieve a clear understanding  of the assumption of another.

Go-under:
Without good dialogue we are likely to miss opportunities and lose understanding s. We are likely to miss out on good positions, to go under and lose out as individuals, corporations, families, nations, churches, parties. The shared meaning we gain in good dialogue helps us , maintain, grow, and strengthen party, church, nation, family, corporation, and self.

Coherent:
For many, an important benefit of dialogue practice is experiencing the power of collectively shared meaning. Most ordinary talk in in society may well be called incoherent. Our dialogue practice is designed to promote areas of  coherence in the vastness of misunderstanding. The meanings we share a cohesion of understanding.

Group: 
Fora truly effective dialogue of of sufficient variety of viewpoint A group of between 15 and 40 seems optimal. It is possible to do preparatory work with a dedicated, active organizing group of say nine may be adequate. A long lasting group with regular meetings is called for.

Thinking Together:
Is a frequent result of a dialogue group and ought perhaps be a aim of your group. We learn to stay close to the same page and to carry each other's thoughts forward. Individuals sharing common meanings in a coherent way have power for peace and creativity. Thinking together coherently calls for dialogue sustained  long enough to to share a body of coherent meanings. 

You strengthen culture, create it enjoy it, and pass it on.



By Richard for You








 

The Dialogue for Effective Practice of a "Second Language"

We have called it a Magic Table Dialogue group. It could be called a Dialogue for Peace. It can also be an English language practice group, or a great way to practice any language.

As an English Language practice group our dialogue is a very productive way to practice any level of English. The beginning learner has a focused, listening practice, a focused hearing practice, important steps to good pronunciation skills.  At the same time the beginner is getting contextual understanding practice.

This practice group can be of considerable interest to a native speaker of English. Such an English speaker can learn fun, empowering, culture enhancing rules of Magic Table Dialogue. He, or she, can also learn dialogue for peace skills for dealing with and appreciating the assumptions and opinions very different from his own. She can also make friends with individuals of a language and culture from her own.

A typical earner of English can build his or her word power by hearing targeted words in context. Sh also learns to hear the pronunciation, enunciation, and accent of a variety of English speakers. She will hear a number of persons each speak a given word in their own way. A learner may choose to listen for, say, pronunciation or she may choose to focus on contextual meaning. Practice is the main aim here.

Each participant also has opportunities to speak and to be heard. A speaker will have his speech heard by a very interested group of listeners. A speaker will be closely listened to as she expresses herself.

Our dialogue is not a substitute for your other language studies. It is very appropriate supplementary practice. 

You can learn more about our kind of dialogue by searching for posts such as:
"Dialogue Terms"
"Dialogue Practice Notes"
"Our Dialogue as a Productive Way to Practice English"
"About Dialogue Practice" 
"Dialogue Practice One" 

What's in it for you?
~ You can learn dialogue skills and get great productive practice in the use of English.
~ You can improve your listening skills.
~ You can practice hearing and understanding what is said.
~ You can practice using English with a group of persons of importantly similar interests.
~ You can practice using a language other than your own.
~ You can improve your understanding of a people and a culture.
~ You can experience many people listening to you with interest.
~ You can get to know others well in a safe atmosphere. 
~ You can learn to be understood as you speak English.
~ You can learn to be better understood by a variety of English speakers.

I believe that you can come up with other advantages and benefits available to you in our program of practice.



by Richard Sheehan









 

Dialogue Practice: what it is about and what it is not about

DialogueWithRCS, Dialogue practice is a way to:

~  peace and good will.

~  see our words as gifts to others.

~  an activity which helps us to be us.

~ better understanding and cooperation through the meaning of word.

~  an honest, supportive activity.

~  greater awareness and enhanced consciousness.

~  develop new listening and speaking skills.

~ practice more effective methods of communication. 

~  preservation, growth, and creation of culture.

~  make a healthy, effective society more likely.

~  meet and know interesting persons.

~  put honest thoughts on the table where we can look them over an begin to find their meaning.

~ be heard.

~ find pleasure in speaking up.

~ understanding among us and within us.

~  exchange views and opinions.

~ satisfying relationship.

~ practice a "second" language.

~ more effective communication outside the group.

~ share experience.

 

Dialogue practice is not is not a,:

~  not a place to make a particular point or idea prevail.

~ not a debate or discussion.

~ not a game to win or lose.


According to Dr. David Bohm, dialogue practice is:

~ participating in a flow of meaning between us, through us, and among us.

~ a activity out of which emerges new and renewed understanding.

~ an activity which helps us to be us.


                There is more to learn, understand, and practice, but with these few sentences we have made a good start.

                Thank you for reading.



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