The Challenge of Dialogue

Of the 3 types of conversational styles - debate, discussion, and dialogue- dialogue is by far the most challenging and has been found to produce the most learning on the part of the participants.  It's also found to be the most difficult and frustrating because of the demands it places on the listener.  Because we UUs are committed to learning, we are going to engage in a program of dialogue as a prelude to the juicy topic on October 23rd: Exploring how our cynicism supports (or not) our UU principles.  This program will be facilitated by Susie Rosenthal who has worked in the field of dialogue for over 25 years and still finds it a tremendous challenge herself.