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NEW TO PROFESSIONAL DIALOGUE™

Welcome to our digital library

These resources offer a starting point for understanding Professional Dialogue™ - what it is, where it comes from, and why it matters. Each item has been selected by the Academy as a clear and accessible entry into the field.

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Books & Papers

The Vision

Garrett opens with a direct analogy: just as complex financial situations call for qualified accountants and auditors, complex multi-stakeholder situations should call on Professional Dialogue…

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Videos & Talks

Dialogue Between Police Officers and Multi-Ethnic Street Youth

Holtrop examines a dialogue initiative bringing together police officers and young people from diverse ethnic backgrounds — a pairing defined, in ordinary circumstances, by suspicion, authority, and…

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Books & Papers

On Dialogic Relations Transforming from Monologic to Dialogic

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Videos & Talks

A Participative Webinar with Tzofnat Peleg-Baker

Tzofnat Peleg-Baker is a scholar-practitioner studying the cultural, social, and psychological dynamics underlying relationship transformation and conflict.

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Videos & Talks

David Bohm June 13th, 1990: Clip 3

In this critical segment, David Bohm identifies the core crisis of modern civilization: thought's systemic inability to remain aware of its own actions.

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Videos & Talks

Dialogue as a Whole-System Healthcare Intervention, January 9th 2019

Healthcare organisations face pressures that fragment communication, erode trust between clinicians and administrators, and leave patients caught in the gaps.

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Videos & Talks

Autism Dialogue, May 23rd 2019

Autism Dialogue is an initiative that applies dialogue principles to and with autistic people, exploring what container, attention, and listening mean when sensory experience, communication style,…

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Videos & Talks

Going Deeper into Practice - Dialogic Decision-Making - 22nd May 2024

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Videos & Talks

Dialogic Consideration – What is Dialogic Leadership? – 24th August ’23

Recorded on 24th August 2023, this Dialogic Consideration brings together AofPD members to examine the nature of dialogic leadership.

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Books & Papers

Dialogical Development in Schools

A European Social Fund project (2019-2021) brought dialogue into Finnish basic education, working with professionals supporting students with special needs.

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Videos & Talks

Interview with Peter Garrett about the role of the facilitator in Dialogue

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Practitioner Guides

ADWOW Set 2 – Functional Communication Part 1

Functional Communication Part 1 is the first module in Set 2 of the Academy's Art and Discipline of Working with Others (ADWOW) practitioner programme, building on the foundational awareness…

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