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A Community Round Table

An Experiment with a Self-Organizing Conversation

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Dialogue as a Means of Collective Communication

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Self-organized conversation is a generative process that fosters creativity and deepens relationships, essential ingredients in community building. As individuals, we have the potential to evolve into more conscious and loving human beings, so do social systems, particularly when driven by spiritual, or transcendent values that are self-generated. These values sound a tone that resonates throughout the Conversation, helping to stabilize the experience so that it stays on the level of dialogue, and providing the context for experiences of individual and group transcendence

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  1. International Systems Institute, USA

    Judith Bach

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  1. Late of Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center, San Francisco, California

    Bela Banathy

  2. International Systems Institute, Carmel, California

    Bela Banathy  & Patrick M. Jenlink  & 

  3. Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas

    Patrick M. Jenlink

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Bach, J. (2005). A Community Round Table. In: Banathy, B., Jenlink, P.M. (eds) Dialogue as a Means of Collective Communication. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-306-48690-3_18

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