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.
Once you have developed some capacity to sense and to embody living Interbeing, now comes the truly exciting process: engaging in a co-conscious dialogue process from the field and its synergetic intelligence. The motive of this creative life force is higher integration. What that means in terms of a group of people engaged in dialogue unleashes the potential of co-conscious creativity. In this module, you can discover how dialogue enables us to align with the creative impulse that moves through the whole. And you learn how to hold the tension that gives birth to creative synergy.
The Module meets every Wednesday from January 14 to April 1, 2026. 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.
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.
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.

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.
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:
Caring for the space between while showing up as your self
How to hold tension and conflict without fragmenting
Aligning with the impulse of Eros arising from the whole
Grounding yourself in wholeness
How to allow the creative unfolding of the dialogue
Transforming tension into creative synergy
Becoming available to the synergetic intelligence of the whole
And you will share all of this in the company of curious, high-spirited fellow humans.
Register NowThe 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 World Time Buddy.
For those who cannot join on Wednesdays, there will be a "replay session" at 14:00 CET / 8:00 EST on the Sunday following each main session.
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. 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.
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 Thomas Steininger and Elizabeth Debold. 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 emergent dialogue–and offer guidelines for the small group work that will happen the next week.

How do we keep the presence alive between us? Caring for the space allows it to work through us. But to care for the space, we need to be aware of the space. Care does not mean simply being nice or avoiding tension or differences. In this first session of the module, we will explore how care is a gateway to the collective presence of Interbeing.

How do we show up in and as Interbeing? In our postmodern culture, authenticity often means speaking one’s truth. In the context of Interbeing, you are called to stand for the space, not just one’s self. To do this, we need to develop our trust in Interbeing as a reality, not just as a passing experience. Learning how to hold both the space and one’s unique perspective creates the dynamism of Emergent Dialogue.

How does a co-conscious co-intelligence make itself known? We have be entrained to interpret our experience from an individuated perspective. But happens when we shift our sensing and perspective to the whole that lives between us? There is a shared intelligence in interbeing that we can choose to lean into. Greater synchronicity of responses begins to occur. The flow of dialogue seems to come from beyond and through the individuals. Can we cultivate this co-consciousness?

How can we become aware of Eros—the creative impulse—as it arises in interbeing? Most of us have had the experience of being creatively inspired: there is a thrill and absorption in flow. Through the awakening to interbeing, a different source of Eros emerges and guides the dialogue. When the creative impulse is sourced from the whole, from interbeing, a co-conscious creativity and synergy are the exciting result.

How can tension become a source of creativity? Many of us are conflict-avoidant and try to bypass the necessary friction that allows for higher integration and deeper synthesis. Often, we are tempted to fix the dialogue when tension and conflict arise. But tension is the source of creative synergy. Learning how to let everything be, yet not being passive, enables the dialogue to unfold itself. We will explore how the friction of diverse perspectives opens the potential for a creative outcome—an emergence.

What does the dialogue want to unfold now? In our final session of this module, we will lean into the capacity of interbeing to find synergy between us. Aware of our own views, listening deeply to others, and opening to the field of interbeing, we can discover the creative force of the synergistic intelligence that interbeing can bring alive.
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 dialogue
To provide 5 60- to 75-minute small group practice sessions to support learning the practice, facilitated by practitioners with experience in emergent dialogue
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 dialogue
To provide forums for participants to share ideas and explore the practice on the Communiverse, our practitioner community
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

Our aim is to bring this process of emergent interbeing to as many human beings who would benefit from its potential as possible. We recognize how urgent it is to discover new ways of sense-making together and to unleash a deeper creativity to respond to the crises we are in as a species. This emergent capacity for intersubjective dialogue belongs to humanity, not to us. We want to make it available as widely as possible so that money is not an obstacle to anyone who sincerely wants to take part.
We offer all of our programs in the spirit of the gift economy—or, in German, a Geschenkkreislauf—where we offer what we have learned and you respond with a gift, usually a financial contribution. However, we have come to realize that, for some programs and this program in particular, we cannot simply offer it for free and ask for contributions. Too many who sign up for free end up not having a commitment to the program, which makes the practice groups unstable and hurts the learning environment. So, we are asking for a specific contribution when you register.
To help us cover our costs and be able to continue our work, we ask you to contribute 320 euros. That amounts to about 25 euros per session.
If you cannot afford this contribution–due to being a student, getting hit by inflation, having a fixed income, living in a country where this is far too expensive–then please be in touch with us. Or if you need to pay in installments, say of 100 euros per month, we can arrange this.
We also invite you, if you are able, to make a contribution of 500 euros as a Benefactor. Your contribution will help provide scholarships to those who cannot afford to contribute financially and are eager to learn. AND…
AGAIN, IF YOU TRULY WANT TO COMMIT TO THE PROGRAM, AND NEED A FEE REDUCTION OR PAYMENT PLAN, PLEASE BE IN TOUCH. We have scholarships and will not turn away any motivated person who happens to have financial limitations or who lives in a part of the world where this is far too expensive.