Karena ini Milis Diskusi, mungkin kutipan berikut bisa membantu kita menemukan pola diskusi yang ideal. Materinya diambil dari buku "The Fifth Discipline: The Art & Practice of The Learning Organization". Konteks buku ini sebenarnya lebih untuk situasi manajemen bisnis, tapi saya pikir masih cukup cocok untuk situasi kita di milis ini. Saya 'kangen' pada diskusi yg dialogis, yg nggak mementingkan kalah-menang, tapi semata-mata sebagai sebuah proses 'berpikir bersama' yg akhirnya menghasilkan pemahaman yg lebih baik atas situasi kekinian kita. Semoga. Salam, Ferli DIALOGUE AND DISCUSSION ... There are two primary types of discourse, dialogue and discussion. Both are important to a team capable of continual generative learning, but their power lies in their synergy, which is not likely be present when the distinction between them are not appreciated. Bohm (David Boh, seorang fisikawan kuantum - FI) points out that the word "discussion" has the same root as percussion and concussion. It suggests something like a "Ping-pong game where we are hitting the ball back and forth between us." In such a game the subject of common interest may be analyzed and dissected from many points of view provided by those who take part. Clearly, this can be useful. Yet, the purpose of a game is normally "to win" and in this case winning means to have one's views accepted by the group. You might occassionally accept part of another person's view in order to strengthen your own, but you fundamentally want your view to prevail." A sustained emphasis on winning is not compatible, however, with giving first priority to coherence and truth. Bohm suggests that what is needed to bring about such a change of priorities is "dialogue", which is a different mode of communication. By contrast with discussion, the word "dialogue" comes from the Greek 'dialogos'. 'Dia' means 'through'. 'Logos' means 'the word', or more broadly, 'the meaning'. Bohm suggests that the original meaning of dialogue was the "meaning passing or moving through ... a free flow of meaning between people, in the sense of a stream that flows between two banks." In dialogue, Bohm contends, a group accesses a larger "pool of common meaning," which cannot be accessed individually. "The whole organizes the parts," rather than trying to pull the parts into a whole. The purpose of a dialogue is to go beyond any one individual's understanding. "We are not trying to win in a dialogue. We all win if we are doing it right." In dialogue, individuals gain insights that simply could not be achieved individually. "A new kind of mind begins to comem into being which is based on the development of a common meaning ... People are no longer primarily in opposition, nor can they said to be interacting, rather they are participating in this pool of common meaning, which is capable of constant development and change." In dialogue, a group explores complex difficult issues from many points of view. Individuals suspend their assumptions but they communicate their assumptions freely. The result is a free exploration that brings to surface the full depth of people's experience and thought, and yet can move beyond their individual views. "The purpose of a dialogue," Bohm suggests, "is to reveal the incoherence in our thought." There are three types of incoherence. "Thought denies that it is participative." Thought stops tracking reality and "just goes, like a program." And thought establishes its own standard of reference for fixing problems, problems which it contributed to creating in the first place. To illustrate, consider prejudice. Once a person begins to accept a stereotype of a particular group, that "thought" becomes an active agent, "participating" in shaping how he or she interacts with another person who falls into that stereotyped class. In turn, the tone of their interaction influences the other person's behavior. The prejudiced person can't see how his prejudice shapes what he "sees" and how he acts. In some sense, if he did, he would no longer be prejudiced. To operate, the "thought" of prejudice must remain hidden to its holder. - Kirim bunga untuk handaitaulan & relasi di jakarta www.indokado.com -- Situs sulap pertama di Indonesia http://www.impact.or.id/dmc-sulap/ Untuk bergabung atau keluar dari Milis, silakan LAKUKAN SENDIRI Bergabung: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Keluar: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sambut MASA DEPAN BARU Indonesia!
