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Dialogic Intervention

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A highly skilful consulting methodology, used by Dialogue Practitioners to intervene in any organisational or social system.

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Dialogic Intervention is vital when an organization or social grouping finds itself challenged - but does not appear to have the capability to prevent (or even substantially mitigate) a predictable and costly negative outcome.

 

Without a dialogic intervention, people ‘watch the pending train crash’ unclear and impotent about what to do. Similarly, the challenge may be a significant opportunity of great potential benefit where people can feel the possibility ‘slipping through their fingers’ without the wherewithal to do anything effective.

  • The Dialogic Intervention programme has two parts:

    • One week of in-person sessions with the faculty and fellow registrants

    • Followed by Working Experience ‘flying time’ to demonstrate Dialogic Intervention capability

     

    The Part 1 in-person session includes

    • the theory of dialogic intervention

    • dialogic skills and practices

    • practitioner model building

    • delivery capability for this work – based on the direct experiences of the individual faculty members

     

    Specific attention is given to:

    • how change occurs

    • what changes and why

    • how and when to deepen participation and awareness

    • the discovery and development of each practitioner’s inherent aptitudes

     

    The curriculum is primarily shaped by first-hand experience, not by book knowledge.

  • Accreditation is awarded through a three-stage developmental process of self-assessment, followed by peer assessment and faculty assessment against developmental criteria endorsed by the Academy's Professional Standards and Accreditation Board.

     

    Graduates will be recognised as Accredited Professional Dialogue Intervenors and entitled to use the initials APDI.

  • Lead members of the faculty are: 

    • Peter Garrett (practitioner and author of A New Kind of Dialogue)

    • Jane Ball (practitioner and author in The World Needs Dialogue! vols 1 t o 6)

    • Jim Tebbe (ex-lead Internal OD Consultant for Royal Dutch Shell)

     

    Between them the faculty have extensive experience of successful dialogic interventions, working at every level in commercial, governmental, social and educational organisations - along  with a practical understanding of the Practice Models that enable such work to be effective. 

     

    All Faculty Members for this Dialogic Intervention programme were included in the lead Dialogic Intervention Consultation Lead Task Force of five practitioners that defined the criteria for Dialogic Intervention, the Academy’s intermediate accreditation programme. 

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    Jane and Peter are Founding Members of the Academy of Professional Dialogue, and with Jim they  are Members of the Academy’s Professional Standards and Accreditation Board. 

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    The Dialogic Intervention programme will be delivered in English, as will the written materials. 

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