You will begin to learn about Mago Bill as I learn to get this blog working. Here at the blog we have learned of certain interests of ours. High among those interests is a certain kind of dialogue practice and we find we have a lot to say it. Below you can find some of that which our dialogue practice is an about about what is not.
Dialogue practice is not:
~ a place to make a particular point prevail.
~ a debate or discussion.
~ an attempt to make points.
~ a game to win or lose.
Our dialogue practice is a way:
~ to peace and good-will.
~ for us to see our words as gifts.
~ to keep a stream of meaning flowing among us.
~ to an activity which helps us to be us.
~ through the meaning of word.
~ to an honest, supportive activity.
~ to greater awareness and enhanced consciousness.
~ to hone our listening skills.
~ to develop new speaking skills,
~ to practice effective methods of communication.
~ to cultural preservation, growth, and creativity.
~ of making a healthy, effective society more probable.
~ to meet interesting people.
~ of putting honest thoughts on the table where we can look at them and begin to find their meaning.
~ to practice a “second” language.
~ of being heard.
~ of finding pleasure in speaking up.
~ to understanding among us and within us.
~ to satisfying relationship.
~ to exchange idea and opinion.
~ to share experience.
~ to more effective communication outside the group.
According to David Bohm, dialogue practice is:
~ participating in a flow of meaning between us, through us, and among us.
~ an activity out of which emerges new and renewed understanding.
~ an activity which helps us to be an us.
by Richard Sheehan
for Mago Bill
by Richard Sheehan
for Mago Bill and you
