Can intercultural/political dialog be improved?

[Dan Doherty 1]

This morning I posted a DF related comment and sent an email offer to Jian Ghomeshi, host of CBC’s Canadian national daily arts, culture and entertainment magazine radio show “Q” 

 

Please consider visiting the Q’s blog and click “Like” to show support for the idea of using DF to improve intercultural dialog. Thanks.

http://www.cbc.ca/q/blog/2014/01/29/can-polarized-opinions-on-israel-give-way-to-productive-dialogue/

 

---Daniel Doherty, Victoria BC

 

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Albert Einstein wisely observed that "A new type of thinking is essential if mankind is to survive and move toward higher levels." As a social species, our individual and collective reality appears to be determined by the attitudes and opinions we hold about each other, the stories we repeat, that we learn during our lives, and which permeate our inter-cultural conversations.

 

I believe this can be healed by the possibilities we are willing to imagine and higher level conversations we choose to engage in as adults. Until we create and tell new stories of cooperation, that new reality will be elusive. This path is made available by the choice-creating perspectives that emerge through a variety of processes such as dynamically facilitated dialogs, citizen assemblies, community healing circles, truth and reconciliation, individual choices for forgiveness, appreciative inquiry and end point visualization.

 

In response to your question, I offer to facilitate such a conversation that perhaps can be aired, or the results of which can be aired on your show. 

 

Daniel Doherty

www.wisedemocracyvictoria.org

[Jim Rough]

Hey Dan,

I love it that you are commenting on how to improve these national and international conversations by offering to DF  … and that you are sharing your comments with this listserv. Of course, I’d like to see DF’ers step in and transform these conversations. 

I also think the broader and easier approach is to set up ongoing Wisdom Councils. Our current political system is adversarial. It’s designed to be a power struggle. It’s designed to be “decision-making ( representatives, proposals, debates, votes, etc.) rather than "choice-creating.” I wonder if there isn’t a way to set up Wisdom Councils in Palestine and Israel. And then DF in a context which changes the underlying structure of the whole-system conversation.

Jim

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[Dan Doherty 1]

Please consider adding a “like” to my comment re using DF to shift the Middle East conversation.

Only 2 more “likes” and my DF comment will rise to the top of this discussion.

When you get to this site, sort by most likes and my comment is the 2^nd one.

http://www.cbc.ca/q/blog/2014/01/29/can-polarized-opinions-on-israel-give-way-to-productive-dialogue/

 

---Dan

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[Janice Lua]

Hi Dan,

Just did the 'like' to your comment. Hope it gets recorded because noted that 'commenting is closed'.

 

Warm Regards

Janice Lua, PBM (Mobile: (65) 9383-4228    Skype: janice.lua)

Co-Founder & COO, Facilitators Network Singapore (www.fns.sg)
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