21: Entropy

by | Jul 10, 2018 | Transformational Dialog, Uncategorized

21: ENTROPY Welcome to the 21st post in our Journey in Dialog. In previous posts, I have identified barriers, restraining forces, and impediments to transformational dialog. In this post, I add the concept of entropy. The root of entropy comes from the physics of...

15: Peptides

by | Jun 7, 2018 | Being, Transformational Dialog

15: PEPTIDES Welcome to the 15th post in our Journey in Dialog. Joshua Freedman in a sixseconds article tells about the discoveries of Candace Pert. Even before she was chief of brain biochemistry at the National Institutes of Health, Candace Pert made a breakthrough...

10: CONVERSATION

by | May 3, 2018 | Conversation, Transformational Dialog

10: CONVERSATION  Welcome to the 10th post in our Journey in Dialog. What does it mean to have a real conversation? Sherry Turkle, a professor at MIT and author of “Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age,” offers a contemporary perspective about...

06: JESUS

by | 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...

01: INTRODUCTION

by | Mar 1, 2018 | Nonverbal Cues, Transformational Dialog

Welcome to the first post of Journey in Dialog. I plan to post on 36 Thursdays what I think it means for people and groups to relate in dialog. Initially, I define dialog as: An exchange between people and groups in which meaning is shared and change occurs with each...