A participant in the Lancaster Dialogue Group started by David Gilbert and Peter Garrett in 1993.

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Less than two years after David Bohm's death, Peter was promoting the Prison Dialogues that began six months after David's death.

Engaging in meaningful conversation these days, does not feel nearly as comfortable as it used to be. It seems all too easy to try to say something of no particular consequence, only to find that I have annoyed or offended someone, whom I am in fact just casually trying to engage in polite conversation.

Organizations have discovered the power of collaboration to increase knowledge sharing, speed up problem solving, create new knowledge, and spur innovation. But even having implement great technology, too many organizations are finding collaboration is not as robust as it needs to be.

Today, many management theorists and practitioners argue that organizations are attempting to move from one paradigm, or worldview, to another. Specifically, we’re shifting from the Newtonian approach (the inner circle in the diagram) – which served us so well during the Industrial Revolution – to what’s known as a quantum approach (the outer circle).

Recorded at Peter's home in Mickleton. Transcript available.

In order to professionalise future teachers of primary school education at the University of Koblenz, since 2013 my colleague Heike de Boer has been working systematically on how a basic attitude of dialogue can be built up in conversation and how it can be examined by students in the process of research-based teaching and learning (cf. de Boer 2019a2, de Boer 2019b3, de Boer 20184). Since 2018, I have been adapting the seminar concept developed by Heike de Boer for philosoph

Some of the many comments shared by conference participants during the fourth annual conference of the Academy of Professional Dialogue when David Kantor was appointed an honorary member (posthumous)of the Academy of Professional Dialogue