Our LO Dialogue Here LO24826

From: Judith Simpson (jsimpson@midcoast.com)
Date: 06/10/00


Replying to LO24796 --

Dear John,

You caught me just as I was deleting all of the LO messages. The only
reason that my statement was listed as anonymous was because it was a
personal note to Rick, asking to be removed from this list. I began three
weeks ago. I simply can't keep up with thirty five messages in one day!
It was a temptation to stick around and see what might happened, but I
need to spend time learning in other ways.

Ah...Bill Isaacs: Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together. isbn
0-385-47999-9. He is the dialogue person at MIT who has been working in
that area specifically since Peter Senge wrote The Fifth Discipline. He
has done many conferences and workshops, but they have been geared to
executives and very expensive and in luxurious places. He does a lot of
pro bono work also, and has great experiences with getting management and
union people together in satisfying dialogue. I did my original dialogue
training with a group started by Glenna Girard in California. and spent a
few years traveling out to be with that group. Glenna and her partner have
created a series of tapes. She has written a book also, but I have not
read it. That particular group seems a tiny bit leaning towards personal
growth. I have been working over the past three years to teach dialogue
to teachers and leaders in many areas. I use it in many settings now, but
it is not the only choice for communication in groups. I have been to only
one dialogue at MIT. I find the Isaacs book like the seed in the middle
of the peach...a little hard, but filled with essence. I often go back to
Bohm.

I believe that dialogue is one way for human beings to evolve. As Bohm
says, everything is a result of our thinking. When we look at the world
we have created, we see that we can do better.

Cheerio.
Judith Simpson

>I've got Bohm and Senge in my library, on my desk, and in my notebooks,
>but which Isaacs is it you're referring to?

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