Posted by Anne Ward on June 24, 19101 at 09:12:51:
In Reply to: Dialogue: What is it? posted by Diana on May 21, 19101 at 04:53:47:
**In reading your great post, I could not agree more with the necessity of coming to some agreeable,
affable definition of 'dialogue' so that we can truly dialogue rather than bash or smash. *I*,
Anne, a great need to learn---once again---how to dialogue.
Could I suggest the adoption of the ff. which was in your post:**
....In "The Dialogue Decalogue," author Leonard Swidler defines dialogue as
a "conversation on a
common subject between two or more persons with differering views, the
primary purpose of which
is for each participant to learn from the other so that s/he can change
and grow......" ....
**to grow...rather than try to 'change' the other. That is so important.
I have returned to the place of peace...shalomplace,...in hopes of being able to dialogue on
several subjects that seem to have overwhelmed me.I know this is selfish, but ;0 ..[AND to learn HOW to dialog] .and to
try to do so without resorting to any 'legalistic' stuff such as You are right; I am wrong; or I am
right; you are Wrong....
when lines are drawn in the sand, nothing is learned except who is on each side of the line. and
that does not seem profitable to the learning process.**
Anne