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This thesis investigates how David Bohm’s idea of dialogue could function as means to prompt awareness of hidden assumptions, and how this impacts communication for people involved. This is explored through the research question: "Can dialogue be a leverage to prompt awareness of underlying assumptions? And by extension: Would people experience this to benefit their communication?" To answer this question a dialogical workshop with four participants was conducted in the business environment. The project utilized a qualitative methodology, and data was gathered by the use of semi-structured interviews with the four participants’ from the workshop. Data from these interviews were analyzed by using the constant comparative method, which led to the categories "views on communication", "impact", "the workshop" and "time". The discussion of these categories are mainly grounded in the ideas of David Bohm, which is supported and extended by amongst Chris Argyris, Thomas Jordan, Jack Mezirow and Michael Poutiane. Findings in this suggest dialogue to hold the potential of being a leverage to prompt awareness of underlying assumptions, while also proposing that more extensive research is needed to say something substantial on how this impact peoples communication. Based on the findings there is also presented a model of how such processes plays out.

I/D 39 -- THE GENERALATE TEAM, June 1985 -- Dialogue; At the frontiers of evangelization -- (pg. 1) -- With other Christian Churches -- (pg. 2) -- With the Non-Christian Religions -- (pg. 2) -- Spiritans in Dialogue with Non-Christians -- (pg. 3) -- Conclusions -- (pg. 4)

I/D 46 -- THE GENERALATE TEAM, November 1990 -- MISSION AND DIALOGUE: DIALOGUE WITH NON-CHRISTIAN RELIGIONS -- (pg. 1) -- I. A relationship between believers -- (pg. 1) -- II. An opportunity to renew Mission -- (pg. 2) -- III. Dialogue is not be improvised -- (pg. 3) -- Conclusion -- (pg. 3)

I/D 47 -- THE GENERALATE TEAM, January 1991 -- Mission and Dialogue: Dialogue with the Modern World -- (pg. 1) -- The modern world: a cultural reality -- (pg. 1) -- Some characteristics of modernity -- (pg. 1) -- Modernity and Dialogue -- (pg. 2) -- Dialogue and specific issues -- (pg. 3) -- Modernity and non-Western society -- (pg. 3) -- Modernity and Formation -- (pg. 4) -- Conclusion -- (pg. 4)

I/D 50 -- THE GENERALATE TEAM, June 1992 -- Dialogue with Traditional Religion – (pg. 1) -- This is the third series on dialogue. Earlier I/D's on the subject had been Dialogue with Non- Christians Religions especially Islam and Dialogue with Modernity. This I/D will carry forward some of the reflections of the Chevilly Meeting on First Evangelization in so far as they touch upon dialogic with traditional religion.

Inaug.-diss.--Leipzig. / Lebenslauf. "Erscheint gleichzeitig als band 23 der 'Rheinischen beiträge zur germ. philologie und volkskunde' im verlage Max Niemeyer in Halle." "Literatur": p. [v]-viii.

This thesis examines the role that dialogue and community play in the autobiographical enterprise and argues that autobiographer and community are dialogically interrelated. The central idea that governs Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior, Smaro Kamboureli's in the second person, and Minnie Bruce Pratt's "Identity: Skin Blood Heart," is this: life-writing cannot be divorced from dialogical relations because living cannot be divorced from dialogical relations. Accordingly, if it is impossible to conceive and define ourselves without reference to other selves, it must be equally impossible to write our life-stories without reference to others. Hence, the process of "self-invention" or "self-fashioning" typically associated with the autobiographical project must be reconsidered within the larger frame of history and heritage, community and collaboration.

Diversity can serve as both a unifying force as well as grounds for intolerance of differences. Behavior analysts working in applied settings often encounter diversity and it is in these settings that meaningful relationships and harmonious collaboration are vital. Skilled dialogue has been recommended as an approach to capitalizing on diverse perspectives so that new solutions and meaningful relationships are developed. The purpose of the present study was to evaluate the effects of a training workshop to teach skilled dialogue to behavior analysts. The participant was trained to provide welcoming, allowing, sense-making, appreciating, joining, and harmonizing statements using instructions, rationales, models, role-plays, and feedback. The effects of the training workshop were evaluated using a multiple baseline design across training components. Audio responses to role-play scenarios were recorded, transcribed, and scored in order to assess the effects of the training workshop on communication skills. The results of the study indicated that this training workshop is an effective method to teach behavior analysts to engage in the components of skilled dialogue, hopefully contributing to harmonious collaborative communication in their work settings.

Univ., Phil. Diss.--Jena, 1874.