Reflections+on+Dialogue

· Enables a space to share wisdom · Provides a sense of freedom/relief without the need for immediate solutions · Allows a space to explore the variety of world views · Ideas can be both affirmed and challenged – can shift to new places · Enables a depth to the sharing · Needs to be a part of a whole school process · Space to doubt – transparent – uncertainty – liberating experience
 * Dialogue: **

· Exchanging gifts to take away. · Experience of something in the classroom that is happening where one is able to clarify one’s thoughts. · We got so involved everyone else in the room disappeared · Questions of clarification · Sometimes moving in another direction. · Grappling by using why – freedom in the group to do so. · Need to be sensitive enough for those who have difficulty in speaking out – bringing them out of themselves. · A way of doing this would be to use talk and question cards.  ** ProProcess of Dialogue: ** · The group has shared from a place of being “in process” – not a “Police check” · This is a place of vulnerability and openness – group dialogues in a communal search for truth – there is the unknown and uncertainty but this leads to deeper possibilities · Dialogue needs to be very well structured and planned · Feedback is very helpful – how can we strengthen it further? · It would be good to have a place to share resources and getting feedback – using a market place approach e.g. a Drop box ·