Bohm Dialogue

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Google's Knol website returns a few hits for David Bohm.

A PDF book titled Mapping Dialogue: A research project profiling dialogue tools and processes for social change is available freely online. This project was produced by the Pioners of Change organization, and it was commissioned by The German Technical Co-Operation (GTZ).

This PDF document mentions Bohm dialogue briefly but nonetheless serves as a good survey of what dialogue methodologies, in the context of social change, are out there.

We post about any dialogue groups we come across because there are so few and because we feel it's worthwhile to follow up on the dialogue experiment and what has come out of it.

About Hester Reeves: (From the New Work Network website)

Hester Reeve has been trained as a Bohmian Dialogian and been practicing for many years in a series of contexts, some of which include establishing Dialogue Groups at Sheffield Hallam University where she teaches as well as for a number of years in prisons.

Future Primitive (.org) put out an interview with F. David Peat on May 20, 2011, titled Gentle Revolution.

However, my experience with these kinds of on-line discussions is that members who respond to a question rarely ask for any context. Rather they respond in declarative statements about their own experience or they offer their own rules of thumb. Seldom is there an attempt for asker and responder to probe the meaning that the other is attempting to convey. For this reason I think on-line discussions are not an effective way to share tacit knowledge

Thanks to the Bohm Dialogue mailing list for making me aware of this.

The following Bohm Dialogue took place in 1988. When I have more exact information of the place/time I will modify this article.

MP3 File of the 1988 Bohm Dialogue

From the website for the video:

Glenn Aparicio Parry wrote a Chapter on dialogue (PDF File) in which he covers:

Lee Nichol, an editor of several of David Bohm's books and a former teacher at Oak Grove School in Ojai, California, wrote an article tittled Wholeness Regained - Revisiting Bohm's Dialogue. This article explores some of the obstacles Bohm Dialogue groups ran into, and some of Bohm's thoughts on why things were going astray.

From the article:

Quoted from: Moshé Feldenkrais's Work with Movement - A Parallel Approach to Milton Erickson's Hypnotherapy by Mark Reese, Ph.D:

Feldenkrais worked primarily in the physical domain of touch and movement.

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By D.Bohm and D.L.Schumacher

Birkbeck College, University of London, 1969

The classic introduction to dialogue:

Dialogue – A Proposal by David Bohm, Donald Factor and Peter Garrett