Module 4: Dialogue and Learning/Thinking Together
Learning Objectives
The learning objectives for this module are:
- Build and grow capacity to host and facilitate formal and informal processes that incorporate key dialogue principles;
- Recognize key principles of dialogue and their distinction from dominant patterns of group process;
- Identify and encourage characteristics of inclusive and generative processes; and
- Develop personal insights that can support ‘conversational leadership’ as facilitators of and participants in group process
Readings and Media
Required
Dialogue: The Power of Collective Thinking
https://thesystemsthinker.com/dialogue-the-power-of-collective-thinking/
The Process of Dialogue: Creating Effective Communication
https://thesystemsthinker.com/the-process-of-dialogue-creating-effective-communication/
Six Conversations that Inspire Change
https://www.ndcollaborative.com/six-conversations/
Enowkin’wixw: What it means to a sustainable community – Jeanette Armstrong
https://www.ecoliteracy.org/article/enowkin-what-it-means-sustainable-community
Otto Scharmer 4 levels of listening
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLfXpRkVZaI
Urgency in climate change advocacy is backfiring, says Citizen Potawatomi Nation scientist
https://www.nationalobserver.com/2019/02/15/features/urgency-climate-change-advocacy-backfiring-says-citizen-potawatomi-nation
OR https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcc.603
Hosting in a Hurry: A quick reference for convening conversations that matter
http://www.artofhosting.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Hostinginahurryversion1.5ChrisC.pdf
Optional
What Listening Means in a time of Climate Crisis
https://lithub.com/what-listening-means-in-a-time-of-climate-crisis/
NESTA Competency Framework
https://media.nesta.org.uk/documents/Nesta_CompetencyFramework_Guide_July2019.pdf (P. 17 – 19)
The Art of Powerful Questions
https://umanitoba.ca/admin/human_resources/change/media/the-art-of-powerful-questions.pdf
Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together, William Isaacs
On the Ground: Practitioners’ Reflections on Alberta Climate Dialogue’s Citizen Deliberations
https://www.albertaclimatedialogue.ca/chapters/ontheground
Conditions for Successful Dialogue and Deliberation
https://ncdd.org/rc/item/4848/
Confronting collective traumas: an exploration of therapeutic planning, Planning Theory & Practice, 18:1, 34-50, DOI: 10.1080/14649357.2016.1249909 – Aftab Erfan (2017)
