{"id":1789,"date":"2021-02-06T02:00:12","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T02:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/internationalbusiness\/?page_id=1789"},"modified":"2021-11-02T20:56:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-02T20:56:42","slug":"about-the-dialogues","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/internationalbusiness\/about-the-dialogues\/","title":{"rendered":"About The Dialogues"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Welcome To <\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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The companion dialogues<\/h1>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Introduction<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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The Companion Dialogues are a response to a felt need in our time. The need for a renewed sense of meaning, relating, and being with ourselves and others. The virtual reality we are living in right now \u2013 as students, educators, leaders, and workers \u2013 calls for a new form of interaction. If the Dialogues are the medium to meet this need, then<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>companioning<\/em>\u00a0is the mode.<\/span><\/p>

The Dialogues are an intentional space that depends upon the\u00a0<\/span>courage to share<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0<\/span>openness to receive<\/em>\u00a0in a non-judgmental way. They offer an interactional rather than transactional space, where people are present\u00a0<\/span>as themselves for others<\/em>\u00a0in the pursuit of possibilities rather than answers.<\/span><\/p>

It is in this spirit that the Dialogues are grounded in the Ignatian principle of\u00a0<\/span>Cura Personalis<\/em>: the whole person is not only a welcome but a necessary presence, as a condition for the Dialogues to function and for the growth of members to be realized.<\/span><\/p>

In sum, members of the Dialogues are first and foremost learners: we learn about the world, each other, and ourselves through active listening, purposeful silence, and noticing what moves us. Thus, the Dialogues is an invitational space where vulnerability, empathy, and reciprocity serve as both the dynamics of exchange and goals for growth.<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Purpose<\/a><\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Companion Dialogues provide an opportunity for us to \u201cthink together\u201d and \u201cbe alone together\u201d that seek to inform how we design the ways we live, lead, manage, create, and innovate in a fast-changing world. By sharing our stories, beliefs, values, and concerns with the intent to accompany each other on our journeys, we can add something new and transformative to our perspectives. In these times, as in all times, companions are a vital source of our continuous growth and transformation<\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Setting<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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A \u201csetting\u201d can be thought of as the invisible context of the visible sessions of an intentional circle where participants come together to dialogue. A setting is considered rich when:<\/span><\/p>