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About the Academy

We promote Professional Dialogue™ for the benefit of society, enabling communities and organisations worldwide to learn together, resolve differences, generate new working practices and create sustainable change.

Our mission is to transform the way people, organisations, and communities talk, think and work together by supporting education, research, and practice in Professional Dialogue™ - an ethical and transparent form of social inquiry that cultivates collective awareness, values each person’s unique contribution, and works for the well-being of society as a whole.

We do this by:

  • Supporting and providing developmental training, resources, and accreditation programmes in Professional Dialogue™.

  • Hosting international conferences and educational events such as The World Needs Dialogue! to connect practitioners across sectors and cultures.

  • Publishing research, case studies, and accounts of Dialogue in practice to extend the field and inspire wider adoption.

  • Building a global community of Accredited Professional Dialogue Practitioners who contribute to systemic change and the sustained well-being of organisations, communities, and society.

  • Offering an educational community where members from around the world can meet regularly, learn together, and explore the practice and applications of Dialogue.

At the heart of our mission is the belief that Dialogue unlocks collective intelligence, humanises systems, generates beneficial new practices and enables sustainable solutions to the complex challenges of our time.

Founding Members & Donors

The roots of the Academy stretch right back to the inaugural work conceiving of Dialogue with theoretical physicist David Bohm in the late 1980s and early 1990s based on his Implicate Order ontology. By 2017 it became apparent that a new profession had taken form, and in March 2017 the Academy of Professional Dialogue was formed in Chipping Campden. Gloucestershire, UK.

The eleven Founding Members were Lars-Ake Almquist (Sweden), Jane Ball (UK), Trine-Line Biong (Norway), Peter Garrett (UK), Beth Herman (USA), Jim Herman (USA), Florian Junge (Germany), Thomas Klug (Germany), Mark Seneschall (UK), Hugh Pidgeon (UK) and Bill Taylor (UK).

Lars-Ake Almqvist, Jane Ball, Jim Herman and Peter Garret were appointed Trustees, and Peter Garrett was appointed Chairman of the International Board.

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Founding Members - Chipping Campden, UK

25th March 2017

We are pleased to acknowledge all who responded to the Founders’ Call request and provided financial support to establish the international, not-for-profit Academy of Professional Dialogue:

LARS-ÅKE ALMQVIST

GAIASOFT

BERNHARD HOLTROP

HENRIK TSCHUDI

JANE BALL

PETER GARRETT

WILLIAM ISAACS

RENATE VAN DER VEEN

FLUX FOUNDATION

JAMES HERMAN

ROBERT SARLY

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