Die zentralen Seminareinheiten dieses Programm werden von Thomas Steininger und Elizabeth Debold auf Englisch gehalten. Wir bieten aber auch deutschsprachige Übungsgruppen an, um Emergent Dialogue auf Deutsch zu üben.
The first two modules in emergent dialogue aim to give you enough instruction and practice to start to stabilize your awareness in and of interbeing. Once you can consciously surrender and give yourself to the subtle, living intelligence of interbeing, then you can start to co-consciously create and begin to engage in sensemaking from the intelligence of the collective itself. However, to engage in such an emergent process in your work team, about challenging material, and with people who don’t know about emergent dialogue, takes further practice. The third core module offers you a safe and exciting space to put into practice all that you have learned. Together, the teaching team and participants will decide on topics for dialogue. Each session will give you the opportunity to dialogue in random small groups and then to come all together to share and clarify what actually happened.
The Module meets every Wednesday for ten weeks from May 1 to July 3, 2024. All sessions will be led by Thomas Steininger and Elizabeth Debold. Small groups will be held in each session. While participants will have a range of experience, no Catalysts will be assigned to guide the groups. Each group will take care of itself.
empowers you to participate in a new culture of creative togetherness. Through this collective practice, you become an agent of emergence, discovering how to make yourself available to what wants to become known between us. Neither simply a method nor a technique, emergent dialogue takes the most fundamental human activity—speaking with each other—and transforms it into a powerful shared space of curiosity, reverence, meaningfulness, and potential.
brings to life a Co-Conscious We. It takes us beyond interpersonal relationship into the dimension of interbeing where co-consciousness and co-intelligence thrive as a new way of being together.
The only way to learn emergent dialogue is through practice. You cannot learn it by studying or thinking about the concepts only; dialogue is something that you have to do. Yet, “doing” here is more than speaking together; it’s a matter of sensing, presencing, letting go, choosing, and being available to the emergent edge of what happens between us.
During this module half of each session will be practicing in random groups.
Transmission & Initiation. The first, and most important, element in learning emergent dialogue is an experiential recognition of this living space between us. 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 the practice of emergent dialogue in a larger context. This includes philosophy, history, developmental psychology, and cultural evolution.
This last module explores how to work with the practice to bring learning and meaning-making to a new level. There is an emergence of intersubjective sense-making that comes from the field of interbeing. Diversity is held in a wholeness that emerges from the synergistic intelligence of the whole.
Together, in active participation in the large and small sessions, we will explore and practice:
Discussing topics that are challenging and cause division
How to counteract polarization through emergent dialogue
Reaching a new level of collective learning
How to stay open to interbeing in the midst of intensity
Becoming more aware of our own shadows and fixed ideas
How to be fully in the dialogue and not stepping out to observe
Developing deeper trust in interbeing and in our humanity
And you will share all of this in the company of curious, high-spirited fellow humans.
Register NowStart with a check in and introduce the topic for dialogue. This may be a reading or a topic. Participants will be invited to suggest topics that the whole group will choose from.
Dialogue in random small groups for approximately an hour.
In the last 30 minutes, explore what happened in the groups and how to respond to challenging or unexpected situations.
Our aim is to bring this process of emergent dialogue 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 200 euros. That amounts to 20 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 300 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.
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