Communicative interaction as a Theory-driven Practice

1. Communicative interaction as a Theory-driven Practice

2. Theories are Ways of Seeing

3. Theories are Ways of Seeing • Theories direct our attention, organize our experience, and enable action.

4. Theories are Ways of Seeing • Theories direct our attention, organize our experience, and enable action. • The theories we bring to a situation partly reveal and partly conceal options for interaction.

6. Window-Bashing

7. Window-Bashing • Repetitively using an old theory in a situation for which it is not useful.

8. Window-Bashing • Repetitively using an old theory in a situation for which it is not useful. • The theories may have been perfectly suited to solve the old problem; but they fail in new situations

9. Question: Where do theories come from?

10. Theories are Ways of Seeing • Diversity in our implicit theories can be a source of collective intelligence if we have good conflict-communication practices

11. Theories are Ways of Seeing • Diversity in our implicit theories can be a source of collective intelligence if we have good conflict-communication practices • But we often fail to recognize and benefit from others’ “ways of seeing.”

12. Theories are Ways of Seeing • Diversity in our implicit theories can be a source of collective intelligence if we have good conflict-communication practices • But we often fail to recognize and benefit from others’ “ways of seeing.” • And we consent to theories that we didn’t actively create or choose.

13. Conflict as Theory-Driven Practice

14. Conflict as Theory-Driven Practice • Conflicts arise out of window-bashing scenarios

15. Conflict as Theory-Driven Practice • Conflicts arise out of window-bashing scenarios • Conflicts arise when we consent to meanings/theories that aren’t our own and are not in our best interest

16. Conflict as Theory-Driven Practice • Conflicts arise out of window-bashing scenarios • Conflicts arise when we consent to meanings/theories that aren’t our own and are not in our best interest • Conflicts arise out of clashes between parties with different implicit theories about a given problem

17. Conflict as Theory-Driven Practice • In these cases, we’ll strive to make our theories explicit—and then negotiate potentially new and better theories together.

18. Conflict as Theory-Driven Practice • In these cases, we’ll strive to make our theories explicit—and then negotiate potentially new and better theories together. • This is especially important in conditions of rapid change, interdependence, and pluralism