by Irving Stubbs | Jun 14, 2018 | Uncategorized
16: RELATIONSHIPS Welcome to the 16th post in our Journey in Dialog. Dialog is about relationships. “The quality of your life is the quality of your relationships.” -Tony Robbins In his Medium Blog, Anthony Moore reminds us of the challenge to have great...
by Irving Stubbs | 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...
by Irving Stubbs | May 31, 2018 | Uncategorized
14: SCIENTISTS Welcome to the 14th post in our Journey in Dialog. Richard Feynman pioneered quantum electrodynamics (QED). He won a share of a Nobel Prize, and his research and explanations were critical in helping to understand the cause of the space shuttle...
by Irving Stubbs | May 24, 2018 | Uncategorized
13: BUSINESS EXPERIENCE Welcome to the 13th post in our Journey in Dialog. Dialog contributes to feelings of ownership, motivation and sustainability. All are important for businesses to be successful. MIT professor, Peter Senge, introduced the business world to...
by Irving Stubbs | May 17, 2018 | Transformational Dialog
12: WHY DIALOG? Welcome to the 12th post in our Journey in Dialog. In this post and again in #24 and #36, we will seek to respond to the question, “Why Dialog?” In Post 01, we began with the end in mind by listing nine answers to this question. As we continue this...
by Irving Stubbs | May 10, 2018 | Transformational Dialog
11: MUSIC Welcome to the 11th post in our Journey in Dialog. One of my favorite musicians is the world-renowned cellist, YO-YO MA. For him, music is dialog. He speaks of his music being communion between himself, his instrument, the scores, and his audience. When you...
by Irving Stubbs | 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...
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...
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