Die zentralen Seminareinheiten dieses Programm werden von Thomas Steininger und Elizabeth Debold auf Englisch gehalten. Wir bieten aber auch deutschsprachige Übungsgruppen an, um Emergent Dialogue auf Deutsch zu üben.
Once you have developed some capacity to sense and to embody living interbeing, now comes the truly exciting process: engaging in an emergent dialogue process from the field and its synergetic intelligence. The motive of this creative life force is higher integration. What that means in terms of a group of people engaged in dialogue unleashes the potential of co-conscious creativity. In this module, you can discover how dialogue enables us to align with the creative impulse that moves through the whole. And you learn how to hold the tension that gives birth to creative synergy.
The Module meets every Wednesday for three months from January 22 to April 9, 2025. We alternate between whole group sessions led by Thomas Steininger and Elizabeth Debold and small practice group sessions led by experienced Catalysts of emergent dialogue.
empowers you to participate in a new culture of creative togetherness. Through this collective practice, you become an agent of emergence, discovering how to make yourself available to what wants to become known between us. Neither simply a method nor a technique, emergent dialogue takes the most fundamental human activity—speaking with each other—and transforms it into a powerful shared space of curiosity, reverence, meaningfulness, and potential.
brings to life a creative, shared consciousness that strengthens our individuality. It takes us beyond interpersonal relationship into the dimension of interbeing where co-consciousness and co-intelligence thrive as a new way of being together.
The only way to live from emergent interbeing is through practice. You cannot learn it by studying or thinking about the concepts only; interbeing is something that you have to become aware of and engage in dialogue with others in groups. It is more than just speaking together; it’s a matter of sensing, presencing, letting go, choosing, and being available to the emergent edge of what happens between us.
During the three months of the Module, you will have many opportunities for practice. We combine ongoing instruction and exercises in each teaching session, and twice monthly small practice groups will allow you to explore and develop what you have learned.
Transmission &Initiation. The first, and most important, element in learning emergent interbeing is an experiential recognition of this living space between us. Establishing this through transmission is essential. It is an initiation into collective presencing.
Experience & Exploration. Practice starts with perception training: developing the sensing “muscles” to perceive the subtle, embodied connectivity of the living intersubjective field. Again, this is not a concept or an idea, but depends on the palpable experience of this field and the sensitivity to recognize it. From here, we inquire together into the nature of this space of interbeing, and in the process, it and we develop a new way of being human together.
Understanding. In addition to exploring and inquiring together, we will also provide content for the mind to place the practice of emergent interbeing in a larger context.This includes philosophy, history, developmental psychology, and cultural evolution.
Once the interbeing field has emerged as a collective presence between us, then we can begin to engage in an emergent dialogue that dynamically synergizes diverse perspectives. The potential of a co-conscious creativity from the space between arises in our shared awareness. Bringing your unique perspective together with others, you learn how to engage with the friction of diverse views and to bring them into synergy without losing coherence.
Together, in active participation in the large and small sessions, we will explore and practice:
Caring for the space between while showing up as your self
How to hold tension and conflict without fragmenting
Aligning with the impulse of Eros arising from the whole
Grounding yourself in wholeness
How to allow the creative unfolding of the dialogue
Transforming tension into creative synergy
Becoming available to the synergetic intelligence of the whole
And you will share all of this in the company of curious, high-spirited fellow humans.
Register NowThe two Teaching Sessions each month will be held on Wednesdays from 17:00-19:00 Central European Time. For the time in your location, see World Time Buddy.
For those who cannot join on Wednesdays, there will be a "replay session" at 14:00 CET / 8:00 EST on the Sunday following each main session.
The small group practice sessions will held twice a month in the weeks when there isn’t a Teaching Session and will be scheduled by each group so that they are at a time convenient to the group members. These sessions will be about 75 minutes long.
Recordings of the Teaching Sessions will be made available to course participants, but watching them does not substitute for attending the sessions, which are interactive and experiential.
You will also have access to an online forum for all participants and for each practice group so that you can share insights and connect in between the teaching sessions and practice groups.
Each 2-hour Zoom teaching session will begin with an approximately 45-minute exploration of one aspect of the practice. This exploration will be led by Thomas Steininger and Elizabeth Debold. You are invited to take part in this inquiry during the session.
This opening is followed by small group exercises (for about 30 minutes) designed to give you experience with these different aspects of emergent dialogue. Finally, the last part of each session invites you to continue the inquiry in the whole group.
The teaching team will also bring in relevant concepts to help you to understand the process you are in. They will also take questions, discuss implications, and provide context about emergent dialogue–and offer guidelines for the small group work that will happen the next week.
How do we keep the presence alive between us? Care for the space allows it to work through us. But to care for the space, we need to be aware of the space. Care does not mean simply being nice or avoiding tension or differences. In this first session of the module, we will explore how care is a gateway to the collective presence of interbeing.
How do we show up in and as interbeing? In our postmodern culture, authenticity often means speaking one’s truth. In the context of interbeing, you are called to stand for the space, not just one’s self. To do this, we need to develop our trust in interbeing as a reality, not just as a passing experience. Learning how to hold both the space and one’s unique perspective creates a dynamism in the dialogue.
How does a co-conscious co-intelligence make itself known? We have be entrained to interpret our experience from an individuated perspective. But happens when we shift our sensing and perspective to the whole that lives between us? There is a shared intelligence in interbeing that we can choose to lean into. Greater synchronicity of responses begins to occur. The flow of dialogue seems to come from beyond and through the individuals. Can we cultivate this co-consciousness?
How can we become aware of Eros—the creative impulse—as it arises in interbeing? Most of us have had the experience of being creatively inspired: there is a thrill and absorption in flow. Through the awakening to interbeing, a different source of Eros emerges and guides the dialogue. When the creative impulse is sourced from the whole, from interbeing, a co-conscious creativity and synergy are the exciting result.
How can tension become a source of creativity? Many of us are conflict-avoidant and try to bypass the necessary friction that allows for higher integration and deeper synthesis. Often, we are tempted to fix the dialogue when tension and conflict arise. But tension is the source of creative synergy. Learning how to let everything be, yet not being passive, enables the dialogue to unfold itself. We will explore how the friction of diverse perspectives opens the potential for a creative outcome—an emergence.
What does the dialogue want to unfold now? In our final session of this module, we will lean into the capacity of interbeing to find synergy between us. Aware of our own views, listening deeply to others, and opening to the field of interbeing, we can discover the creative force of the synergistic intelligence that interbeing can bring alive.
To offer 7 2-hour Zoom video-conference sessions, co-led by Thomas Steininger and Elizabeth Debold that combine both guidance on and practice in emergent dialogue
To provide 5 60- to 75-minute small group practice sessions to support learning the practice, facilitated by practitioners with experience in emergent dialogue
To make available video recordings from the Zoom Teaching Sessions (small group meetings are not recorded)
To provide supplemental readings and recordings to support your understanding of emergent dialogue
To provide forums for participants to share ideas and explore the practice on the Communiverse, our practitioner community
To show up and give your full presence to the twice-monthly Teaching Sessions
To join in twice-monthly group practice sessions and let go into the practice itself
To bring your curiosity and sense of adventure to learning this emergent practice
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