Dialogue as a Means of Collective Communication

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xiii

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2. Introduction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Dialogue

      • Patrick M. Jenlink, Bela H. Banathy

      Pages 3-14

3. Historical and Cultural Perspectives of Conversation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15

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   2. Wholeness Regained

      • Lee Nichol

      Pages 17-27

   3. Martin Buber and Mikhail Bakhtin

      • Maurice Friedman

      Pages 29-39

   4. Designing Communities of Ideas for the Well-Being

      • Ioanna Tsivacou

      Pages 41-70

   5. Dialogue and Spirituality

      • Danny Martin

      Pages 71-103

   6. Transforming Communities

      • Maureen O’Hara, John K. Wood

      Pages 105-136

   7. My Dialogue with Dialogue

      • Maurice Friedman

      Pages 137-157

4. Perspectives on Dialogue Conversation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159

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   2. The Five Dimensions of Bohm’s Dialogue

      • Mario Cayer

      Pages 161-191

   3. Facilitating a Global Conversation Through the Universal Demosophia Facility

      • Matthew A. Shapiro

      Pages 193-216

   4. Becoming Aware

      • Maurice Friedman

      Pages 217-239

   5. Doing and Talking

      • Alexander M. Sidorkin

      Pages 241-253

   6. Bohm’s Journey to Dialogue

      • Linda Ellinor

      Pages 255-276

   7. Carnival and Dialogue

      • Alexander M. Sidorkin

      Pages 277-288

5. Modalities of Conversation

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 289-289

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   2. Post-Formal Conversation

      • Raymond A. Horn Jr.

      Pages 291-321

   3. Future Search Conversation

      • Karen E. Norum

      Pages 323-333

Dialogue as a Means of Collective Communication offers a cross-disciplinary approach to examining dialogue as a communicative medium. Presented in five parts, the book takes the reader on a journey of exploring the power and potential of dialogue as a means for communication. In particular, this volume comes at a time when the global society's attention has been directed to creating more productive conversations in the name of world peace and harmony. It provides a unique new work on dialogue that brings the reader into a "dialogue with dialogue", offering an opportunity to understand the communicative potential of dialogue.
In the book, readers are introduced to five sections: Section I examines the historical and cultural perspectives of conversation. This examination helps to create a foundation for a deeper study of the emergent and salient aspects of conversation as it relates to cultural creativity and human systems design. Sections II offers the reader an examination of dialogue through different philosophical and theoretical perspectives as well as methodological ideas related to conversation. Section III explores different modalities of conversation and the application of design conversation within and across various types of design settings and human experiences. Section IV examines the field of practice as related to use of different forms of conversation. Here various authors will share their different approaches to conversation and their reflections and insights in using conversation in a variety of settings. Concluding the book, Section V reflectively examines the authors' contributions to the book and provides the reader with a focus on the future.

• Design
• Evolution
• Nation
• Public Relations
• communication
• creativity
• experiment

• Late of Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, San Francisco

  Bela Banathy

• International Systems Institute, Carmel

  Bela Banathy, Patrick M. Jenlink

• Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches

  Patrick M. Jenlink

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