Police officers and multi-ethnic street youth: two groups whose encounters rarely end in understanding. Bernhard Holtrop documents an attempt to change that through structured dialogue.

Is democracy sufficient without dialogue? Tzofnat Peleg-Baker worked in Israeli Democratic Schools where students and staff have equal votes, and in Dialogic Schools shaped by Martin Buber's I-Thou philosophy. She questions whether individualism alone can transform relationships.

Could human thought be the greatest threat to human survival? David Bohm suggests that while our technological intelligence has mastered the physical world, our inability to manage the process of thought itself has created profound dangers.

Can dialogue function as a medical intervention, not just a communication tool? This January 2019 webinar examines what it means to apply dialogue at the level of an entire healthcare system.

What happens when dialogue practice is designed around neurodivergent ways of being in conversation? The Autism Dialogue session from May 2019 brings practitioners into direct contact with this question.

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What separates a leader who speaks from one who genuinely listens? This Dialogic Consideration from August 2023 takes up one of the Academy's most pressing organisational questions: what does leadership actually look like when dialogue is its foundation?

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Thomas Klug shares his approach to dialogue practice in this extended 86-minute participative webinar. The format allows deep exploration of his work and thinking, followed by participant reflection in small groups and collective discussion connecting his insights to members' own experiences.

Two decades of professional dialogue practice compressed into a single conversation. This session draws on the lived experience of practitioners who were present as the field took shape between 2000 and 2020.

What happens when a dialogue practitioner stops facilitating others and turns the lens on her own family? Linda Ellinor, co-founder of the Academy of Participatory Democracy and author of 'Dialogue: Rediscover the Transforming Power of Conversation', records a dialogue session conducted within her own family system.

On 27 October 2021, the Academy's fourth annual conference paused to appoint David Kantor an honorary member, posthumously. The tributes that followed spoke of tears shed not in sadness but, as one participant put it, 'for a life well-lived.'

What does it take to become a dialogue practitioner? The Ignitor Fellowship Call from January 2022 brings together a cohort of emerging practitioners at a pivotal stage in their development within the AofPD's ADWOW programme.