Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dialogue : Conversation as culture building and consciousness evolving / Patrick M. Jenlink and Bela H. Banathy -- Wholeness regained : revisiting Bohm's dialogue / Lee Nichol -- Martin Buber and Mikhail Bakhtin : the dialogue of voices and the word that is spoken / Maurice Friedman -- Designing communities of ideas for the human well-being / Ioanna Tsivacou -- Dialogue and spirituality : the art of being human in a changing world / Danny Martin -- Building a conscious group through deep dialogue / Maureen O'Hara and John K. Wood -- My dialogue with dialogue / Maurice Friedman -- The five dimensions of the practice of Bohm's dialogue / Mario Cayer -- Facilitating a global conversation through the universal demosophia facility / Matthew Shapiro -- Becoming aware : a dialogical approach to consciousness / Maurice Friedman -- Doing and talking : two sides of school / Alexander Sidorkin -- Bohm's notion of dialogue : examining the philosophical roots / Linda Ellinor -- Carnival and dialogue : opening new conversations / Alexander Sidorkin -- Post-formal conversation / Raymond A. Horn, Jr. -- Future search conversation / Karen Norum -- Dialogue and improvisation : developing capability for highly effective conversation / Glenna Gerard -- The conditions for thriving conversations / Kathia Laszlo and Alexander Laszlo -- A community round table : an experiment with self-organizing conversation / Judith Bach -- Conversation in the corporate world / Diane Gayeski and Gordon Rowland -- Conversation and the development of learning communities / Kathryn Kinnucan-Welsch and Patrick M. Jenlink -- Creating future societies : reflections on searching together / Bela H. Banathy and Patrick M. Jenlink.