I n England, Peter Garrett has pracised the idea of "true dialogue" in maximum-security prisons.  He
found offenders will attend dialogue sessions while boycotting everything else.  He says: “The impulse
behind intentions is pure, even though the intention may be distorted and the impact not what was intended.  
Inquiring deeply enough to reach the original impulse will always reveal ‘wholesomeness’.  This provides the
confidence to enter the loudest confrontation and the darkest territory without fear that it will get forever worse.”
  • If we suspend reaction (keeping an open, non-judgmental mind), we can perceive life directly –
    by becoming aware of and “letting go” of increasingly 'unpresent' patterns of 'thunk' thought
    (filters that distort our perception of 'now')
  • If we look for and sincerely acknowledge participation, we can enjoy relationship – by avoiding
    the disease of being unaware of the contributions, desires, and claims of others
  • If we search inside for what we truly know to be so, we learn to “let go of” the reductive
    (because only logical) categorizations by which we forget the symbolic character of words and
    lose connection with the vital warmth within of our individual integrity, at which point we once
    again feel our special coherence with a larger whole
  • If we learn to listen to our most honest beliefs (perhaps in meditation), we can "spot" the invalid
    claims of presumers of "factionalizing facts", develop our innate senses of both rationality and
    reasonability, and feel comfortably engaged in a wider range of experience
  • If we diligently seek to ground our innermost beliefs in data, we are helping the world in which
    we participate unfold in vitally new and organically sustainable ways.
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Empathic Dialogue the Authentix Way
Conscious Approaches to Achieving Agreement
Empathicly Authentic Dialogue

“True dialogue is a process by which we seek ‘containers’ capable of holding more and more of our
experience”, says William Isaacs, a graduate of Dartmouth and the London School of Economics,
who also has a doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University, and whose work in this field has
earned respect from Ford, Motorola, and Shell – among many other clients.  “We can see this in the
experience of a couple that continuously fights and has no ‘space’ to understand the tensions they are feeling.  
We can imagine the change they might feel if they could walk into the arms of a very wise, understanding
friend who could soothe and reassure them by letting them know he (or she) sees the struggle each of them is
going through.  He (or she) could offer the hope that would motivate them to fight for both their own identity
and each other” (from Isaacs' book "Dialogue & the Art of Thinking Together").
Sources:
Data – Conference Board of Canada as quoted in Globe & Mail of 070505 and Canadian Business & the Law, by
DuPlessis et al. published 2005 by Nelson div. of Thomson Publishing; Analysis - Authentix Coaches
Disciplines for
Empathic Dialogue the Authentix Way
Thorough dialogue works to achieve productive agreements between any
participants having interest in both learning and practising its disciplines -- in
whatever forum or life situation one encounters.  The impulses giving rise to
intentions are life expressions, no matter what moods of destructive cynicism or
anxiety may be contaminating their manifestation or interpretation.  The task of
an "Authentix Dialoguer" is to practise disciplines that help express and evoke
authenticity and reciprocity.  Consider the following success rate comparisons:
We can use the principles of empathically authentic dialogue in the boardroom, the bedroom, the
shop floor, the construction site, the customer's office, the family vacation, the relative's visit, even in
email exchanges or blog or forum posts.  Doing so exercises a spirit of conversation in which ideas
from are woven together in a coherent tapestry of both rational and reasonable conceptions and
inquiries.  This, however, is merely a logical statement of the theory of dialogue.  Putting the theory
into practice involves gaining proficiency in 5 essential disciplines, the conditions for success in which
may be summarized as follows: