<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Marai,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I don’t think I ever mentioned Bohm Dialogue in Halifax. It just informed my offering to what we did in that closing circle. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohm_Dialogue" class="">Bohm Dialogue</a> is a form of circle process. It was the first practice I ever experienced in which a large group (200+ people) sat in a circle and deeply explored a complex subject. The year was 1993 and practicing this form of interaction is in part what set me up to appreciate the power of Open Space when I met Harrison in 1994. (BTW, Bohm Dialogue is more typically done with 20-40 people. But that first time was at a conference in Portland, Oregon with Peter Senge and they had 200+ people sitting in 2 concentric circles. I’d never seen anything like that before. In fact, it was an experiment for the conference organizers.)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">In short, David Bohm was a physicist who saw dialogue as pathway for changing consciousness in order to solve crises facing the planet. In fact, he wrote a book called <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Changing-Consciousness-Exploring-Political-Environmental/dp/0062500724" class="">Changing Consciousness</a>. He also wrote a seminal essay called <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=MGGF_oF_aY0C&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22on+dialogue%22&hl=en&src=bmrr&ei=ARyeTd3tIMntObq92bQE&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=book-thumbnail&resnum=1&ved=0CCkQ6wEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false" class="">On Dialogue</a>. These were early influences for me.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What we did in that circle in Halifax was based on what I had learned and experienced in working with Bohm Dialogue. We engaged in an open-ended reflection in which people listened deeply to one another making our thinking visible to the whole. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Chris’ questions brought the whole system present. We became a “we” as the considered the needs of individuals and the needs of the whole.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Peggy</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">P.S. I found something I put together in 2002 on how I practiced Bohm Dialogue (attached). I eventually moved away from it because it takes so much patience and self-regulation to do. Open Space seemed to yield similar or better results and was much more fun. Still, I see circle processes, like Bohm Dialogue, as the foundation of virtually all systemic, engagement practices.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""></div></body></html>