Intended learning outcomes

• Participants become better listeners and can express themselves more transparently. They gain competence in engaging in dialogue. 
• Participants can distinguish between dialogue and discussion and use either of them in project-related tasks. 
• Participants become more open to their experience, more expressive, and more acceptant and understanding of others. 
• Participants perceive their (social, international) environment more accurately and more realistically (more "extensionally"), improving both their problem solving capacities in complex, work-related contexts and their abilities of working in/with groups. 
• Participants reflect their experiences and look at them in the light of person-centered values as well as perceived business- and educational values. 
• Participants explore and reflect the features and values of both presence and computer-mediated interaction in their work-related contexts and in international settings.  
• Participants experience and reflect the process and facilitation-style in a loosely structured, person-centered, international community and get first-hand experience on the potentials and possible limitations of such settings.  
• Participants and facilitators gain clarity in research hypotheses, goals and designs elaborated as “shared visions” through dialogue in the significant learning community developed and continuously developing in the course. 
• participants gain more clarity on their personal goals (e.g. by determining and tracking them throughout the course).