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FOR RESEARCHERS

Evidence and enquiry

The research base of Professional Dialogue™ — studies, evaluations and the primary texts they build on.

The library holds both the intellectual roots of the field and the evidence from its settings: prisons, organisations, education, community. Three good doors in:

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Practitioner Guides

Skillful Conversation, Dialogue and Generative Dialogue

This extract from the Field Guide for the Academy's eight-hour Dialogic Engagement course covers the last three of its seven Modes of engagement.

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Books & Papers

A Dialogic Model of Time

Peter Garrett treats clock time as one humanly devised system among several, and learning to move between them as a practical skill. He names two external systems.

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Books & Papers

Nature Dialogues and Dialogic Decision-Making: Three Cases

Bernhard Holtrop facilitates dialogue outdoors, around a campfire and a talking stick, and this paper sets out why and what it produces.

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Books & Papers

The Dialogic Classroom

Mehdi Shariatyrad, a mathematics teacher in Tehran, was completing his accreditation with the Academy in 2023 when he began using the syllabus for Dialogue in the Room with his class.

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Books & Papers

Serving the Commonwealth of Virginia: From Chaos to Organization Using Dialogic Decision-Making as a Team

A newly elected Commonwealth's Attorney in Virginia won funding that took his office from three paralegals to thirteen, and then had no structure to put them in.

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Books & Papers

On Dialogue by David Bohm, Book Launch - National Library of Iran, Tehran on 14 June '26

On 14 June 2026 the Endless Path of Dialogue Institute launched Professor Mostafa Malekian's Farsi translation of David Bohm's On Dialogue at the National Library of Iran in Tehran.

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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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