The Underlying Dynamics of Conversations that Matter    

We live in interesting times. The 21st century is rife with crises and opportunities that have implications for generations to come. How we converse — and the role that conversation plays in our societies — will be key factors in evolving into a sustainable, vibrant world that works for all people and life. What do we, as conversational practitioners, need to understand to contribute to such a future? What are we learning about the dynamics of interactivity and conversation, that can make them more generative and powerful?

Join two of the most well-known thought leaders in our field in an exploration of the underlying dynamics of interactivity and conversation and to weave them together into a “pattern language” — a coherent map of the elements needed for conversation to uplift and transform our lives, organizations, communities, and societies. The session leaders have done work understanding interactivity in an evolutionary context to meet the challenges of our times, and this session will be a collaborative continuation of that work with you.

Registration for this one-day workshop is only $95.

Learning Objectives:

1. Deeper understanding of the underlying dynamics of conversation, its role and significance
2. A new big-picture way to look at our work, which transcends individual practices and methods
3. An experience in co-creative co-sensing into the heart of something important to all of us

Facilitators:

Peggy Holman convenes and hosts conversations that matter, inviting people and systems to gather around the issues most important to them. By growing their capacity to step into mystery using generative processes that call forth the best of who they are and can be, Peggy has been honored to witness organizations and communities unleash the energy and wisdom to move dreams to action. The vastly expanded second edition of her book, The Change Handbook (Berrett-Koehler, 2007), co-edited with Tom Devane and Steven Cady, has been warmly received as an aid to people wishing to increase resilience, agility, collaboration, and aliveness in their organizations and communities. Over the last seven years, Peggy has worked with journalists in redefining journalism for the 21st century. Her current inquiry is into how, as an evolutionary act, we take to scale the gifts that the art and practice of process bring to shifting our collective capacity for living well together.

Tom Atlee is Founder and President of The Co-Intelligence Institute. Awed by the evolutionary challenges and opportunities we face as a civilization, Tom researches and promotes dialogue, deliberation, and other resources for collective intelligence and conscious evolution. After 12+ years exploring what processes and institutions could create a wise democracy, he is now investigating with Peggy Holman how to apply evolutionary understandings to social transformation, and convening strategic conversations of evolutionary agents. He founded The Co-Intelligence Institute in 1996 and wrote The Tao of Democracy in 2003. He lives in Eugene, OR, in a consensus-based co-op household with his partner Karen Mercer and eight other very interesting people.

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Thinking about attending this pre-conference workshop on October 2nd? Feel free to contact Peggy (peggy@opencirclecompany.com) or Tom (cii@igc.org) if you have questions. Or go to…

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