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Thanks Birgitt,<br>
<br>
I'm mostly interesting in what is universal (i.e. option 2.) As
someone who has moved around a fair amount myself, I can certainly
identify with your experience.<br>
<br>
I am particularly inspired by the following quote attributed to
David Bohm (supposedly from "On Dialogue" but it is not it my copy
of the book):<br>
<blockquote type="cite"><em>From time to time, (the) tribe
(gathered) in a circle. They just talked and talked and talked,
apparently to no purpose. They made no decisions. There was
no leader. And everybody could participate. There may have been
wise men or wise women that were listened to a bit more – the
older ones – but everybody could talk. The meeting went on,
until it finally seemed to stop for no reason at all and the
group dispersed. Yet after that, everybody seemed to know what
to do, because they understood each other so well. They could
get together in smaller groups and do something or decide
things.</em></blockquote>
<br>
Bui<br>
<br>
<br>
On 18/01/2012 12:33 PM, Birgitt Williams wrote:
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<pre wrap="">One consideration...it is important to distinguish whether you wish to focus
on
1.what is different among different cultures
OR
2.what is universal and the same among the entire human race
I personally spent years attempting to understand what was different and
spent three years of training as a cultural interpreter. I finally figured
out that unless I was deeply 'in' a culture, I could not really understand.
I find this even in my own life. I was born in Germany, yet because I moved
to Canada when I was two, I don't totally understand the German culture or
forms of dialogue. Because I was an immigrant into Canada, I also never came
to fully understand the Canadian culture of ways of dialogue. And then I
moved to the southeastern USA some years ago and still am finding my way
after 12 years to understand this culture and the nuances of dialogue. I
have spent some considerable time in India and in Africa...and the same
findings.
So, after all of my investigations to the cultural differences, when I was
putting together our workshop modules, I focused on what is universal, what
is the same. We are all members of the human race and what is the same is in
us all.
Blessings,
Birgitt Williams
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I intend to have them do that but it is part of an academic course. So
it is required to be at least a little bit academic. Thanks for the
suggestion though. :)
Bui
On 17/01/2012 10:40 PM, doug wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Bui--
Permit me to borrow the hat from the man and ask: Why have them read
about it and listen to someone talking about it? Instead you could have
them do dialogue and then report out what it was like and what they
learned....
Or not....
<Handing hat back to the man>
:- Doug.
On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 16:23 -0330, Bui Petersen wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Hi fellow OSers,
I have been ask to present a talk about on dialogue as part of
university course on Cross-cultural communication. I am thinking that it
may be interesting to talk about dialogue and how some of the approaches
we use are influenced by traditions from different cultures (e.g.
circles, OS marketplace, etc.). The intent to assign reading for the
students prior to the class, but it is proving to be a bit more
difficult than expected to find articles on this topic. There are lots
of sources on how people from the "west" have gone to other countries to
do dialogue, but I have found very little describing traditional
dialogue, neither theory or practice. (one likely problem is that what I
am referring to as "dialogue" may well be called something else in the
literature).
Does anyone have any suggestions? Theoretical sources are OK too.
Always grateful for the generous help from this list. Thanks!
Bui Petersen
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