“All too often our talk fails us.  Instead of creating something new, we polarise and fight.  Particularly under conditions where the stakes are high and differences abound, we tend to harden into positions that we defend by advocacy.  To advocate is to speak for your point of view.  Usually people do this unilaterally, without making room for others.

But Dialogue is an altogether different way of talking together.  Generally we think of Dialogue as “better conversation”.  But there is much more to it.  Dialogue, as I define it, is a conversation with a center, not sides.  It is a way of taking the energy or our differences and channeling it toward something that has never been created before.  It lifts us out of polarization and into common sense, and is thereby a means for accessing the intelligence and co-ordinated power of groups of people.”