Al’s Communologue Guidelines, Principles, Rules
This is a very brief (bullet format) summary of the Rules and Principles I have used in guiding Communologue.
Continue reading →Category Archives: Peace Building
Peace Building: The Essay
When two people come together, they have a choice: to move toward Peace or to move toward War. The choices and the actions/habits that go with them are clear when one studies couples who are successful at bringing lasting Peace and those who are not. (Sadly, most people I meet chose war!) What do you chose? Here's my essay on this situation.
Peace Making: AV Class
Here is the class I use to distinguish between the communication habits the lead to strive, struggle and distress and those that lead to peaceful coexistence.
Continue reading →Peace and Domestic Violence
Recently I gave a 3–hour presentation at a conference on Domestic Violence. The title was "Remediating Bullies and Their Makers: A different look at Domestic Violence." Here is the background and one of the Powerpoint presentations.
Continue reading →Current Violence: Take a look
So I get to chat about the current spate of violence in the US and my thougths about its origins and its current manipulation in the media. If you are looking for solutions, I will have to think some more.
Continue reading →Practical Application of Communologue
This is a writeup of an application of Communologue in a project that I completed 2003-2004.
Continue reading →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 →Avoiding Transpersonal Pernicious Behavior in a Group
Some more thoughts on Guiding a Communologue Group. A new guideline added on Nov 1, '06.
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 →(audio commentary) Guiding Communologue – Interventions
This is an audio file of my thoughts about guiding Communologue, listing and explaining the interventions I believe are important. …
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