In 1984 a new kind of Dialogue was conceived by David and Saral Bohm, Don and Anna Factor and Peter and Jenny Garrett with 40 other participants gathered for a weekend in the English Cotswold Hills. Further private weekend Dialogues in Israel and Europe established why Dialogue is necessary and continued a deepening participatory enquiry into proprioceptive awareness. An adaption of the approach was later popularised by Peter Senge in his book The Fifth Discipline, and became

At the request of the Ministry of Justice, Dialogue was used to consult with prisoners about Transforming Rehabilitation. Dialogic Research as a methodology (rather than traditional focus groups, surveys or one-on-one interviews), is designed to find the authentic voice of those who are impacted by organisational changes but are otherwise excluded from influencing the design process. Read in full The Offender Journey report to the MOJ  by Jane Ball and Peter Garrett:

After David Bohm's death in 1992, Peter was tracing the influences on David's thinking about Dialogue and Peter worked for some years with Patrick. View the certification here:

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I recall starting a new job when I was in my late 30s. I had been running my own business importing women’s fashion clothing into the UK and wholesaling it to upmarket independent women’s dress shops from a fancy display unit in the rag trade area, behind Oxford Street in London. Then the supply end in South Africa failed to deliver. As I was closing things down and letting the showroom, I thought how much I would enjoy working with property. An old friend was now running the

Facilitated by Peter Garrett, May 1994 to August 1996

The reports were shared with participants, edited from their feedback and then circulated around the prison to staff and prisoners. Download the HMP Long Lartin Reports:

These were the first ever Prison Dialogues and the result of a collaboration between Dave Parsons and Peter Garrett.

Facilitated by Peter Garrett, September 1994 to August 1996

I began using the term Dialogue as a Research Methodology in 2014, although Professional Dialogue had been in use for research purposes for many years prior to that by me and my business associate and colleague Jane Ball. The first published research drawing on this methodology was undertaken by us for the UK Ministry of Justice in 2015. Before introducing the Research Methodology, it would probably help to say what I mean by Professional Dialogue. The word dialogue is used w

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

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.

Flux has been working with dialogue in Norwegian prisons since the autumn of 2015 and, prior to that, with the practical application of dialogue since 2009. The story, however, begins before that. Henrik Tschudi met David Bohm at a private dialogue Weekend in Copenhagen in 1989 and, although attending the conference because of Bohm’s reputation as a scientist, Henrik walked away deeply inspired about dialogue. A similar private dialogue weekend was arranged in Oslo by friends

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

Did it ever occur to you that human thought may be the cause of most of the challenges we face in the world today? Some problems are the result of natural disasters like earthquakes, tsunamis, droughts and cyclones. Most, however, are caused by people, and the way they behave towards one another and the environment. The problems of crime, wars, substance abuse, deforestation, pollution, depletion of the ozone layer and so on, all arise from the way people think, feel and act.

This is a companion paper expanding the consideration begun by Harold Clarke and Whitney Barton in their paper, Putting Dialogue to Work in the Virginia Department of Corrections , that was considered at our 2019 conference. That paper described the value of the Working Dialogue as a business practice for the management of organisational change, and gives specific case studies to substantiate this. In this paper I want to explain the thinking that led to the original design o

David Bohm was one of the world’s great conceptual thinkers, in the same echelon of brilliance as Albert Einstein, whom he knew well. Born in Pennsylvania in 1917, he worked as a theoretical physicist in the USA, Brazil, Israel and then the UK, where he spent his last 45 years at Birkbeck College in London. I first met him in 1983, and had the opportunity to work closely with him from 1984 until his death in 1992.Certainly David was the best thinking partner I ever had. He ha