Towards Transformative Conferencing and Dialogue
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1991 Collection of papers and notes, problems and possibilities on the new frontier of high-risk gatherings concerning social development
Produced and distributed in an earlier form (as a set of 'topic sheets') under the title: Large-group Conferences: maturing their reflective, focusing and transforming power, especially in conditions of societal upheaval (1980) as a contribution to Commission IV (Meeting sociology, dynamics and practice) of the World Forum of Transnational Associations (Brussels, 1980). This follows, but is distinct from, another collection on Transformative Conferencing: Problems and possibilities on the new frontier of high-risk gatherings concerning social development (1984). The topic sheets were a basis for the 207 entries in section on 'Transformative Conferencing' in the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential (1986).
General
- Comment (4k)
- Envisioning the perfect meeting (5k)
- Clues to the nature of the gathering (5k)
- Articulating "the Way for Forward" (3k)
- Strategically relevant evocative questions (5k)
- Creating a context for more meaningful dialogue (8k)
- Clues to working insights in conferences (5k)
- Traps and opportunities of dialogue (3k)
- Integrative failure (5k)
- Integrative skills (3k)
- Meeting focus: a description (7k)
- Meeting focus: a checklist (3k)
- Loosing meeting focus (4k)
- Focus subtleties: meeting magic (5k)
- In quest of radical coherence: a group design initiative (10k)
- Complementary metaphors of discourse (8k)
- Configurative metaphors (7k)
- Meetings as metaphors (5k)
- Modelling meetings: analogies and metaphors (7k)
- Guidelines towards dialogue through metaphor (16k)
- Some clues to social harmony from music (17k)
- Participant interaction modes (3k)
- Differences in styles of artistic and policy endeavour (15k)
- Participant personality needs and problems (3k)
- Participant entrapment: alienation of committed activists (4k)
- Participant entrapment: repetition of learning cycles (3k)
- Systems of categories distinguishing cultural biases 1993 (19k)
- Facilitation in a cross-cultural environment (18k)
- Axes of bias in inter-cultural dialogue (5k)
- Premises for an inter-cultural gathering (4k)
- Structure of declarations challenging traditional patterns 1993 (6k)
- Non-linear agendas and linear thinking (5k)
- Pattern language for participants (10k)
- Self-constraining configurations: energy dissipation (4k)
- Self-constraining configurations: communication patterns (4k)
- Structure of declarations: challenging traditional patterns (6k)
- Geometry of organizations, policies and programmes (12k)
- Reframing inter-faith relationships (5k)
- Aesthetic challenge of interfaith dialogue as exemplified by meditation 1997 (23k)
- Jerusalem: a parody of current interfaith dialogue 1977 (22k)
- Towards an ecology of spiritual traditions as articulated by a dynamic system of metaphors (25k)
- Towards a language of spiritual concord (8k)
- Possible traps towards spiritual concord (12k)
- From Culturgrams to Religrams
