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Saying Goodbye and Thank you to Wm. Isaacs Chapters 16 & 17

Saying Goodbye and Thank you to Wm. Isaacs Chapters 16 & 17. Chapter 16: Dialogue & Democracy. Conversational Violence: Food Lion & ABC News (1997, Ted Koppel)

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Saying Goodbye and Thank you to Wm. Isaacs Chapters 16 & 17

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  1. Saying Goodbye and Thank youto Wm. IsaacsChapters 16 & 17

  2. Chapter 16: Dialogue & Democracy • Conversational Violence: Food Lion & ABC News (1997, Ted Koppel) • “Yet it is in precisely moments like this – where the temperature to react is so strong, and where one’s integrity and credibility is on the line – that the choice to defend or suspend can be made” (365).

  3. Chapter 16: Dialogue & Democracy • Questions for helping a group move from the 2nd quadrant to the third? • Why do we feel pressure to defend ourselves? • What stops us from slowing down and inquiring? • What might we learn that is new from each other? • What are we missing that we do not want to hear? • What do you fear that you might give away or lose if you fail to defend well? • Let’s leave space for the possibility that there is no right answer.

  4. Chapter 16: Dialogue & Democracy • A Return to Civility – the Congressional Hersey Retreat (1997) • Carefully planned to allow Republicans and Democrats to see each other differently (train ride, families invited) • Team planned and co-facilitated small group sessions • Careful questions planned: How has the quality of discourse affected your personality? What are the obstacles to raising the quality of discourse? “If I were in charge of the House, I would…”

  5. Chapter 16: Dialogue & Democracy • Prison Dialogues – the Transformation of Memory (1994) • Creating a space where the rejected parts of ourselves (and society) can be looked at, accepted and healed

  6. Chapter 17: Taking Wholeness Seriously “…dialogue could serve as a potent vehicle for integration of the supposedly “soft” and imprecise interior dimensions of human experience…with the supposedly “harder” and more objective exterior dimensions, like empirical research” (386).

  7. Chapter 17: Taking Wholeness Seriously Isaacs cautions us about on-line communication which often fails to promote shared understanding, insight, wisdom or our hearts (389).

  8. Chapter 17: Taking Wholeness Seriously • Speaking the True: the Language of Wholeness • The story of Greg (396-88) • Developing the capacity of awareness – reflectingin the moment what we really want to say (marks a sign of competency of dialogue and a new kind of wholeness of speech (399)

  9. Chapter 17: Taking Wholeness Seriously • Metalogue – “meaning moving besides” – describes a unified state of experience, where the meanings and structure mirror one another. • We are able to move beyond the language of the machine age to changing how we speak, which will change how we think, and how we act with each other.

  10. Chapter 17: Taking Wholeness Seriously • 2nd Innocence – Your first innocence is given, but that your second innocence is earned (Robert Bly) • Learning to create social fields or containers where assumptions can be challenges, fears expressed, different voices included and where new possibilities emerge is hard work, but good and necessary work.

  11. My Challenge to You • Identify a small swamp problem or issue in your community, workplace or even here at the college • Reread Isaacs, this time more slowly and purposefully • Map out a process • Invite people into dialogue – of making meaning together • Grow in your confidence as a “convener of change”

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