“Dialogue … is about a shared inquiry, a way of thinking and reflecting together.”  

 

“Dialogue … is a conversation with a center, not sides. It is a way of taking the energy of our differences and channelling it toward something that has never been created before. It lifts us out of polarization and into a greater common sense, and is thereby a means for accessing the intelligence and coordinated power of groups of people.”  

 

"In essence a dialogue is a flow of meaning.”  

 

(Isaacs, 1999) 

 

 

“In a dialogue … nobody is trying to win … There is a different sort of spirit to it. In a dialogue, there is no attempt to gain points, or to make your particular view prevail. Rather, whenever any mistake is discovered on the part of anybody, everybody gains”  

(Bohm 1996