by Irving Stubbs | Apr 26, 2018 | Conversation, Empathy, Transformational Dialog
09: KOINONIA GROUP EXPERIENCE Welcome to the 9th post in our Journey in Dialog. In a pastorate, we formed koinonia groups of members. Koinonia means fellowship and communion. The groups offered lay pastoral support and dialog about issues of members’ mutual concerns....
by Irving Stubbs | Apr 19, 2018 | Transformational Dialog
08: US/THEM SYNDROME Welcome to the 8th post in our Journey in Dialog. As an addition to Post 07, we will highlight a restraining force to dialog that is very much with us. It’s the Us/Them Syndrome. In practice, this syndrome, which is often based on race, ethnicity,...
by Irving Stubbs | Apr 12, 2018 | Conversation, Transformational Dialog
Welcome to the 7th post in our Journey in Dialog. In the Introduction Post 01, I listed some of the reasons for dialog. Using Kurt Lewin’s Force Field Analysis, we might call those reasons the driving forces in support of dialog. However, there are also restraining...
by Irving Stubbs | Apr 5, 2018 | Transformational Dialog
Welcome to the 6th post of Journey in Dialog. In the New Testament of the Bible, we find that Jesus was a great question asker. He was also good at listening to others. Often when he listened, he would ask deeper-level questions, not because he didn’t have answers to...
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