An interview of Peter Garrett - Chairman of the Academy of Professional Dialogue, by Michel van Amsterdam for the Dialogue Summit .

Thought and Its Two Levels: Individual and Collective

David Bohm and Astrid Brekken ADTRID BREKKEN:   If we really got onto that idea and got away from what we are now, the more mechanistic...

David Bohm interviewed by David Suzuki for "The Nature of Things", CBC Canadian Radio, 26th May 1979

Hosted by Linda Ellinor and Nancy Dixon of the US Academy of Professional Dialogue.

Victoria J. Marsick is Professor of Adult Learning & Leadership at Columbia University, Teachers College where she directs academic programs in Adult Learning and Leadership. Before joining Teachers College, Victoria worked extensively in Asia and other countries with not-for-profit organizations, and directed staff development and training at UNICEF. While at Columbia, Victoria has worked with organizations to design, develop and implement informal learning and leadership in

Tom O’Connor brings an enviable and varied history to the practice of dialogue. He has degrees in law, philosophy, theology and counseling. He spent nine years as a wondering monk, a friar within the Catholic religious order of the Carmelites. He led of team of 24 chaplains and over 2,000 volunteers who co-created a model of humanistic, spiritual and religious prison chaplaincy within the Oregon Department of Corrections that reduced recidivism. All of this broad experience h

Cohosts Linda Ellinor and Nancy Dixon interviewed Saskia and Martijn about their background and work before holding a Q&A session.

Sandra Janoff, PhD co-developed the principle-based methodology called Future Search: Getting the “whole system” focusing on the future and creating values-based action strategies. Future Search enables discovery of a shared picture based on the experience of all those present. Sandra has worked in more than 45 countries on complex economic and social issues. She has a deep commitment to creating conditions that enable people to move from fragmentation to wholeness. Sandra’s

Cohosts Linda Ellinor and Nancy Dixon interview Rebecca Cannara and Francine Ortega about their work.

Hosted by Linda Ellinor and Nancy Dixon of the US Academy of Professional Dialogue. In David Bohm’s Ontology: The Implicate Order , Peter Garrett reflects on his long friendship with Bohm and what they were trying to create together through the practice of dialogue. He takes us back to the 1980s with the first ideas of how dialogue might improve what Bohm was viewing as the fragmentary thinking that was damaging the world. Peter and Bohm experimented with “dialogue weekends”

Cohosts Linda Ellinor and Nancy Dixon interviewed Lee Nichol about his background and work before holding a Q&A session.

Lauren is a PhD Philosopher, who teaches philosophy at Emerson College. She is also a researcher and author of several books, including her latest book. She has worked with a number of dialogue processes including Reflective Structured Dialogue (Essential Partners) and Intergroup Dialogue (Michigan State). At Healthmere, where she is a program developer, she engages marginalized youth in dialogue and the arts. She has studied how implicit bias negatively impacts our ability t

Jim is an organization development consultant that has worked alongside many of our most prestigious Academy members, Jane Ball, Peter Garret, and Beth Macy, during his 33 years with Shell Oil. While working for Shell, Jim led numerous learning and OD initiatives, focusing on dialogue, action learning, team effectiveness, coaching, and David Kantor’s work. Since leaving Shell, Jim has been working as a freelance organization effectiveness consultant. It is Kantor’s work on op

Cohosts Linda Ellinor and Nancy Dixon interviewed Jason Schulist about his background and work before holding a Q&A session.

We are honored to have Jane Ball as this month’s interviewee. Jane is the co-creator of several of the most innovative, dialogic processes in criminal justice. One is the Offender Resettlement Journey (ORJ). During an ORJ, an offender tells their story authentically by walking through their journey in front of an audience of 40 to 80 people, many of whom have played a significant part in their life. They re-experience their journey from arrest to court appearance, sentencing,

Lots of people facilitate dialogue, but Harold Clarke has made dialogue happen across a whole organization. And not just any organization, but the Virginia Department of Corrections! He is a master of using dialogue to bring about change in an organization. He has achieved this feat not just once, but over and over at the Director of the Nebraska Department of Correctional Services, as well as the Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Corrections.

Cohosts Linda Ellinor and Nancy Dixon interviewed Glenn Aparicio Parry about his background and work before holding a Q&A session.