Thursday, March 3, 2016

What dialogue is not? & what dialogue is? 

My take

Pradeep


What dialogue is not?
  • Dialogue is not a casual conversation.
  • Dialogue is not psychological counseling or psychotherapy, where you unload your burden of life to the professional in front of you and seek advice.
  • Dialogue is not a soliloquy or a monologue, where you share your past experiences or future plans unhindered.
  • Dialogue is not about showing off your knowledge, book or otherwise.
  • Dialogue is not about indulging in arguments, trying to dominate one another or trying to be the star of the morning or afternoon or evening.
  • Dialogue is not about talking things from a safe distance and forever avoiding one’s own daily life and responsibility.
  • Dialogue is not about exchanging opinions on politics, films, business, religions or societal trends.
  • Dialogue is not about transferring of information and knowledge from one to another.
  • Dialogue is not to let a word pass by without feeling it fully.
  • Dialogue is not rushing through something to get at somewhere.
  • Dialogue is not a forward, expansive movement.
  • Dialogue doesn’t start with a pre-conceived plan of action.


What dialogue is?
  • Dialogue is a process that attempts to explore our psychological realm and get at the facts in a collaborative manner.
  • Dialogue is an attempt to understand the workings of one’s mind, where friends try to help each other in understanding.
  • Day to day problems form the basis of dialogue as there is a disenchantment with the established approaches.
  • Dialogue is an attempt to discover the truth of one’s own problems, one’s own suffering.
  • Dialogue is speaking what you completely feel, which involves being serious.
  • Dialogue neither begins with an assumption nor does it stop with a conclusion, in fact it questions the very assumptions we hold and the very conclusions we form.
  • Dialogue is a movement involving the peeling of inward layers in the attempt to get to the core facts of one’s existence.
  • Dialogue is being totally objective - even about one’s own subjectivity.

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