One consideration...it is important to distinguish whether you wish to focus on 1.what is different among different cultures OR 2.what is universal and the same among the entire human race
I personally spent years attempting to understand what was different and spent three years of training as a cultural interpreter. I finally figured out that unless I was deeply 'in' a culture, I could not really understand. I find this even in my own life. I was born in Germany, yet because I moved to Canada when I was two, I don't totally understand the German culture or forms of dialogue. Because I was an immigrant into Canada, I also never came to fully understand the Canadian culture of ways of dialogue. And then I moved to the southeastern USA some years ago and still am finding my way after 12 years to understand this culture and the nuances of dialogue. I have spent some considerable time in India and in Africa...and the same findings. So, after all of my investigations to the cultural differences, when I was putting together our workshop modules, I focused on what is universal, what is the same. We are all members of the human race and what is the same is in us all. Blessings, Birgitt Williams www.dalarinternational.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bui Petersen Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 7:31 AM To: [email protected]; World wide Open Space Technology email list Subject: Re: [OSList] Articles on dialogue in different cultures I intend to have them do that but it is part of an academic course. So it is required to be at least a little bit academic. Thanks for the suggestion though. :) Bui On 17/01/2012 10:40 PM, doug wrote: > Bui-- > > Permit me to borrow the hat from the man and ask: Why have them read > about it and listen to someone talking about it? Instead you could have > them do dialogue and then report out what it was like and what they > learned.... > > Or not.... > > <Handing hat back to the man> > > :- Doug. > > > > On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 16:23 -0330, Bui Petersen wrote: >> Hi fellow OSers, >> >> I have been ask to present a talk about on dialogue as part of >> university course on Cross-cultural communication. I am thinking that it >> may be interesting to talk about dialogue and how some of the approaches >> we use are influenced by traditions from different cultures (e.g. >> circles, OS marketplace, etc.). The intent to assign reading for the >> students prior to the class, but it is proving to be a bit more >> difficult than expected to find articles on this topic. There are lots >> of sources on how people from the "west" have gone to other countries to >> do dialogue, but I have found very little describing traditional >> dialogue, neither theory or practice. (one likely problem is that what I >> am referring to as "dialogue" may well be called something else in the >> literature). >> >> Does anyone have any suggestions? Theoretical sources are OK too. >> >> Always grateful for the generous help from this list. Thanks! >> >> Bui Petersen >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OSList mailing list >> To post send emails to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: >> http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > > _______________________________________________ > OSList mailing list > To post send emails to [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: > http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org > _______________________________________________ OSList mailing list To post send emails to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org _______________________________________________ OSList mailing list To post send emails to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] To subscribe or manage your subscription click below: http://lists.openspacetech.org/listinfo.cgi/oslist-openspacetech.org
