emergent dialogue

Module 1

the emergence of coherence

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Die zentralen Seminareinheiten dieses Programm werden von Elizabeth Debold und Team auf Englisch gehalten. Wir bieten aber auch deutschsprachige Übungsgruppen an, um Emergent Dialogue auf Deutsch zu üben.

The capacity to sense and to embody living interbeing is the foundation of Emergent Dialogue. In this essential module, you are given the opportunity to develop your capacities for sensing into the aliveness of the interbeing field and to recognize its intelligence. You will learn how to engage in dialogue that opens the gateways to Interbeing and how to shift your center of gravity to align with the intelligence of the field.

The Module meets every Wednesday from October 8 to December 17. We alternate between whole group sessions led by Elizabeth Debold and the Team and small practice group sessions led by experienced Catalysts of Emergent Dialogue.

What is
Emergent Dialogue?

emergent dialogue

is an individual and collective awareness practice that evokes Interbeing, a new human potential for love and creative synergy. “Interbeing” is just that: a being or living presence that comes alive between and in and through us. It is emergent, meaning that it is something new and surprising that arises out of the not-already-known. And it depends on us, on human choice, to realize its potential.

emergent dialogue

brings to life the magic of language to manifest new dimensions of reality out of the imaginal. Through sharing in collective sensing and sense-making, this dialogue practice opens a space where paradox is resolved in surprising ways. An emergent capacity for human togetherness rooted in non-separation becomes the foundation for deep inquiry into Life itself. It points to a way that our uniqueness and diversity can cohere and synergize in a complex unity.

Our Approach

The only way to discover Interbeing is through practice. You cannot learn it by studying or thinking about the concepts only; Interbeing is something that comes to life in Emergent Dialogue in a group setting. This dialogue practice is more than just speaking together; it’s a matter of sensing, presencing, letting go, choosing, and being available to the emergent edge of what wants to happen between us.

During the course of the Module, you will have many opportunities for practice. We combine ongoing instruction and exercises in each teaching session, and alternating weeks of small practice groups will allow you to explore and develop what you have learned.

Transmission & Initiation. The first, and most important, element in learning Emergent Dialogue is an experiential recognition of this living space between us that we call Interbeing. Establishing this through transmission is essential. It is an initiation into collective presencing.

Experience & Exploration. Practice starts with perception training: developing the sensing “muscles” to perceive the subtle, embodied connectivity of the living intersubjective field. Again, this is not a concept or an idea, but depends on the palpable experience of this field and the sensitivity to recognize it. From here, we inquire together into the nature of this space of Interbeing, and in the process, it and we develop a new way of being human together.

Understanding. In addition to exploring and inquiring together, we will also provide content for the mind to place Interbeing and the practice of Emergent Dialogue in a larger context. This includes philosophy, history, developmental psychology, and cultural evolution.

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What will you learn?

We begin with learning how to sense into Interbeing, which opens a deep coherence in the relational field. A living, collective presence arises between us. Realizing that this is not just a personal experience, you can discover dimensions of being and knowing beyond the individual without losing your sovereignty. With practice, you will learn how to become available to the intelligence of the field between us.

Together, in active participation in the large and small sessions, we will explore and practice:

How to move from "me" to "we" and perceive the field

A depth of presence that is not just a fleeting experience

How to embody radical openness

Grounding yourself in wholeness

How to hold a position of not knowing

Trust in the more subtle dimensions of togetherness

How wholeness becomes a different starting point for engaging with difference and diversity

And you will share all of this in the company of curious, high-spirited fellow humans.

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Our Guides

Tom Steininger

>>Bio<<

Elizabeth Debold

>>Bio<<

Our Team of Catalysts (more to come)

MIKE KAUSCHKE
Faculty of the event
BIO

I am managing editor of evolve Magazine, a translator, author and facilitator of emergent dialogue. I have studied Zen Buddhism with various teachers, engaged in hospice work and have nearly 20 years’ experience working with We Space and emergent dialogue. Currently, I am writing a book about a poetic art of living that will be published later this year.

CARRI MUNN
BIO

A living systems strategist, Carri combines wisdom traditions with ecosystem principles to nurture regenerative cultures in conscious organizations and multi-sector collaboratives. Her holistic approach to evolutionary work rewires individuals and organizations to actively participate in shaping conditions that allow us all to flourish in a complex world.

KERRY LINDSEY
Faculty of the event
BIO

After a long trifold path through the arenas of small business start-ups, collective spiritual practices, and developing physical communities, my paths began to merge 30 years ago into the world of collaborative technologies.  That journey ultimately landed me in the realm of intersubjective practices five years ago. Thanks to the new world that opened, the context that most drives me now is, “How do we create–From the We– the localized human-scale economies that will absolutely work… for the we, and the planet?”

MARLENE POTTHOFF
Faculty of the event
BIO

The question of how environmental protection and social change can go hand in hand with actively lived modern spirituality has occupied me since my youth. Professionally, I am committed to living climate protection. In addition, I am inspired by the vitality of the field of consciousness between us and the desire for deep human togetherness. For the past 15 years, the co-conscious and co-creative thinking and working in emergent dialogues have been the engine of my work for a new culture between human beings and for the world.

MARIA ZACHERL
Faculty of the event
BIO

It is such a joy to have been workng with this dedicated team and other members since 2009. Although I am a naturopath by profession, I am involved in facilitating different Co-Conscious We-space and emergent dialogue programs at emerge bewusstseinskultur e.V. and One World in Dialogue and am part of the support team of evolve Magazine’s salon work.

NADJA ROSMANN
BIO

As a cultural anthropologist, I’m fascinated by exploring how collectives find purpose and create togetherness. In the past ten years, emergent dialogue became to me a life practice in this discovery. Being a member of the editorial team of evolve Magazine, I established and co-lead with my colleagues a network of almost 30 evolve salons in the German speaking countries where we take deep dives into the evolution of culture and consciousness, based on the magazine topics.

What people experience

I feel my Self transformed, along with the way I show up in the relationships in my life….a great gift of feeling touched, seen, and connected effortlessly along with inspiring me to give a voice to this living field.
Nura, age 30
Earth
…opens the door to a profound, new way of being human in the world.
Liz S.
Wilmington, Delaware, USA
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Module 1 Program

The two Teaching Sessions each month will be held on Wednesdays from 17:00-19:00 Central European Time. For the time in your location, see WorldTime Buddy.

If you cannot join on Wednesdays, please let us know. We are hoping to hold a "replay session" at 14:00 CET / 8:00 EST on the Sunday following each main session. It will depend on interest.

The small group practice sessions will held twice a month in the weeks when there isn’t a Teaching Session and will be scheduled by each group so that they are at a time convenient to the group members, as much as possible. These sessions will be about 75 minutes long.

Recordings of the Teaching Sessions will be made available to course participants, but watching them does not substitute for attending the sessions, which are interactive and experiential.

You will also have access to an online forum for all participants and for each practice group so that you can share insights and connect in between the teaching sessions and practice groups.

What we do in each session:

Each 2-hour Zoom teaching session will begin with an approximately 45-minute exploration of one aspect of the practice. This exploration will be led by the Team. You are invited to take part in this inquiry during the session.

This opening is followed by small group exercises (for about 30 minutes) designed to give you experience with these different aspects of Emergent Dialogue. Finally, the last part of each session invites you to continue the inquiry in the whole group.

The teaching team will also bring in relevant concepts to help you to understand the process you are in. They will also take questions, discuss implications, and provide context about  Interbeing – and offer guidelines for the small group work that will happen the next week.

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the emergence of coherence

Introduction
Teaching Session:
OCTOber 8, 2025

We start by breaking the ice and getting to know each other. In this first session, you will meet the teaching and Catalyst team as well as meet your companions on this journey. You will have the opportunity to make connections with others who want to explore and work with this new dimension of relatedness.

Perceiving the Field
Teaching Session:
October 15, 2025

Can we sense something beyond individual experience? We will open our collective awareness to the space between us. Stretching our perception beyond the usual attention to our inner experience, you are invited to sense into the shared, intersubjective space of Interbeing.

Practice Group Session:
week of October 22, 2025
Letting Go & Radical Openness
Teaching Session:
October 29, 2025

How does meditation help to cultivate sensing beyond mind? The practice of meditation is foundational to Emergent Dialogue. Letting go of our stories and the mind’s need to be right and secure, enable us to enter conversation from a place of Wholeness and curiosity. We are present, in this present moment.

Practice Group Session:
WEEK OF NOVEMBER 5, 2025
Listening from Collective Presence
Teaching Session:
NOVEMBER 12, 2025

How can we listen from the wholeness of Interbeing? Often we listen from a place of already knowing. We, mostly unconsciously, re-create the status quo by sorting what we hear into categories and ideas that we already know. When we listen from the presence we share, the present moment comes alive and the intelligence of the whole begins to be revealed.

Practice Group Session:
week of November 19, 2025
The Fourfold
Teaching Session:
November 26, 2025

How do we orient ourselves to wholeness? We introduce the Heideggerian Fourfold as a way of stepping beyond the limitations of our separateness to embrace the living moment in its fullness. To participate in the collective intelligence of Interbeing, we can learn to open ourselves to the uniquely human capacities of presencing these four dimensions.

Practice Group Session:
week oF DECEMBER 3, 2025
Transindividuation & Intuition
Teaching Session:
DECember 10, 2025

How does Interbeing transform what it means to be a human being? Human cultures have developed from pre-individuation to individuation and now to transindividuation—a self that chooses to live in alignment with the living presence in the space between us. We will explore this experientially and discover how interbeing calls us to be even more deeply individuated. When we shift what we identify with as “self,” a channel opens to a deeper sense of what needs to happen.

Practice Group Session:
WEEK OF DeCember 17, 2025
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We commit to you...

To offer 7 2-hour Zoom video-conference sessions, co-led by Thomas Steininger and Elizabeth Debold that combine both guidance on and practice in emergent interbeing

To provide 5 60- to 75-minute small group practice sessions to support learning the practice, facilitated by practitioners with experience in emergent interbeing

To make available video recordings from the Zoom Teaching Sessions (small group meetings are not recorded)

To provide supplemental readings and recordings to support your understanding of emergent interbeing

To provide forums for participants to share ideas and explore the practice on the Communiverse, our practitioner community

You commit to all of us...

To show up and give your full presence to the twice-monthly Teaching Sessions

To join in twice-monthly group practice sessions and let go into the practice itself

To bring your curiosity and sense of adventure to learning this emergent practice

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A Message from Elizabeth Debold

After much consideration, we have decided to cancel the Emergent Dialogue 3 Module program for 2025-2026. It was a hard decision to make. But my beloved teaching and life partner, Thomas Steininger, has been fighting brain cancer for two and a half years and it is now clear that the cancer has won. While I tried to go ahead with the program, I cannot care for the program and for Thomas's departure from this world and give each what is deserved.

We will not offer this program again until Fall 2026, however, there are other opportunities to learn about Emergent Dialogue and Interbeing. First, we have an Open Interbeing Lab the first Tuesday of each month at 7:30pm CET (1:30pm EST). This is a free monthly introduction to discovering Interbeing through dialogue.

GERMAN: https://www.evolve-world.org/programs/interbeing-lab
ENGLISH: https://www.evolve-world.org/programs/open-lab

Die Praxis gemeinsamer Gegenwärtigkeit: Einführung in Emergent Dialogue und Interbeing:
Donnerstags, 19.00 bis 21.30, 30. Oktober, 6. , 13. und 20. November
https://www.evolve-world.org/programs/dialog-kurs

Introduction to Emergent Dialogue and Interbeing
A practice of communal presence
Sundays, 10 am to 11.30 am EDT (4 pm to 5.30 CET), November 2, 9, 16 and 23
https://www.evolve-world.org/programs/dialogue-course

Become a catalyst of Emergence: Summer Intensive Training, July 12 to 22 in Wales
https://www.evolve-world.org/summer-intensive-2025

Growing spiritual resilience for turbulent times: Day of global community practice
Sunday, Dec 7, 2025 from 3 pm to 9 pm
https://www.evolve-world.org/day-of-practice-2025

I hope that you will join us in co-creating new human potentials through Interbeing.