Making Amends
Use this process when you want to apologize for something you have done. Its a way to say "I'm sorry" that works.
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An Application of Communologue: United Way of Kootenai County
By Donald L. Gibbon. Northern Idaho sounds like it should be about as far away from 21st century social ills as you could get and still have access to modern America’s social benefits. Coeur d’Alene, known to demographers and government bureaucrats as CdA, has a population of only about 35,000, but it’s still the largest town in the state north of Boise, some 460 long miles to the south.
Continue reading →Guiding Communologue
A list of interventions that can be used to create and maintain a dialogical group atmosphere. A new guideline added on Nov 27, '07.
Continue reading →The Odd Dialogue Practice
This is a beginner, Validation exercise. You are Uninformed at that point when you think your partner is doing something odd or that “doesn’t make sense to you.” If you were informed, you wouldn’t think it odd, and you would see your partner’s sense. Use this practice sheet to get good at Validating.
Continue reading →Notes: Guiding Dialogue (5 July 2006)
Notes for a Class on Guiding Dialogue
Continue reading →Guide’s Role in Communologue
Thoughts on the Role of a Communologue Facilitator.
Continue reading →Glossary of Terms
This is an often requested list of brief definitions of my words. From time to time I will add to this list. Insert these words in the Search function on the front page of my website to see the articles where I use these terms.
Continue reading →Map of Relationships (Full Version Script) Part V
This is the script of a DVD of the full form of the Map of Relationships. Part V, the Other Doors.
Continue reading →Map of Relationships (Full Version Script) Part II
This is the script of a DVD of the full form of the Map of Relationships. Part II, Blind Alleys.
Continue reading →Earn it or Spend it: Interpersonal Capital
A simple look at ways of getting people to do what you want and like you. "What can you do to make them inclined to do what you want. What are you doing that makes them not inclined to do what you want."
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