Bringing out Collective Wisdom: New Dialogic Forms
Dear HumanDHS network friends
Please find below details of a discussion on new dialogic forms.
Kind regards
Brian Ward
ACRGNY Roundtable Breakfast
Karen Davis and Jane Hughes Gignoux will speak on ‘Bringing out the Collective Wisdom’ at the November 6th ACRGNY Roundtable Breakfast, 8:00 AM, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, 899 Tenth Avenue (59th Street-take any subway to Columbus Circle and walk west!).
In recent decades a number of new dialogic forms have emerged and gained widespread usage in a variety of fields. These practices—World Café Dialogue, Open Space Technology, Appreciative Inquiry, Wisdom Council, to name a few—when introduced in the workplace and communities, have often shifted the goals and principles of those settings by bringing substantive input from people. Industries and communities in transition or facing challenges have employed these practices as a way to discover the true values of their employees or community members and create policy that will be supported by those populations.
Karen Davis and Jane Hughes Gignoux, who have been using these dialogic practices widely for a number of years, will offer an overview and an opportunity to experience at least one of the processes and invite dialogue.
Jane Hughes Gignoux, a native New Yorker, is the author of Some Folk Say: Stories of Life, Death, and Beyond. She has been offering trainings in interpersonal communications skills since the early ‘80s. From 1995-2000 she was President of Friends of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, a group that studies ways that intention and attention can affect matter and change consciousness, where she first encountered these dialogic forms. Jane is asked to facilitate groups using some of these processes ranging in size from 20 to 700 and focused on a wide range of topics.
Karen J. Davis, an organizational consultant globally, works in the spirit of earth wisdom. She is dedicated to building global community and sustainability by working and learning with colleagues and groups worldwide. Karen is on the postgraduate faculty of the Universidad Diego Portales in Chile. She is a board member of Open Space Institute and is active in the International Organization Development Association and Organization Development Network.
ASSOCIATION FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Greater New York Chapter
www.acrgny.org
212-946-1998
The Greater New York Chapter of the Association for Conflict Resolution, Inc. (ACRGNY) is a not-for-profit professional organization dedicated to promoting and strengthening alternative dispute and conflict resolution, fostering the use of dialogue and contributing to professional development of the field.