<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;">Congrats to you, Jo Nelson, for your decades long commitment to sharing/grounding “the guided conversation method” , as we once called it, with society worldwide, beyond just educators. Brava!!<div><br></div><div>Marilyn<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Sep 10, 2024, at 9:43 AM, Jo Nelson via Dialogue <dialogue@lists.wedgeblade.net> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">Hi, all,</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">Today is the official publication date of The Art of Focused Conversation, Second Edition! It is available on <a href="http://amazon.com/">Amazon.com</a>, or if you are in Canada you can get it directly from the publisher at newsociety.com.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;">To celebrate, I created a focused conversation that you might like to use after the American presidential debate, which also is happening today. </span></div><div><span style="font-size: 14px;"><br></span></div><div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">Possible Focused Conversation on the American Presidential Debate<o:p></o:p></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p style="font-size: 14px;"> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><i style="font-size: 14px;">With yourself or others who are interested in exploring the debate experience <o:p></o:p></i></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p style="font-size: 14px;"> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><i>Assumption:</i> <i>People want to move beyond their gut-level responses to something useful.<o:p></o:p></i></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p style="font-size: 14px;"> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Rational Aim:</b> To think through impact and implications of the debate to personal action<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Experiential Aim: To move beyond gut-level reactions to more thoughtful response<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p style="font-size: 14px;"> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">Context:<o:p></o:p></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Let’s work through our responses to this debate.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p style="font-size: 14px;"> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>O.</b> What words or phrases did you actually hear one of the candidates say? (quote them)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">What images stood out for you? (describe what you actually saw)<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p style="font-size: 14px;"> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>R.</b> What part of this debate was exciting or compelling for you?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">What part of this debate was frightening or depressing? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">What part made you want to turn it off? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p style="font-size: 14px;"> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>I.</b> What is something you learned from this debate? About the candidates and their intentions? About yourself?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">What are you pondering now? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">What did you discover about your own values or perspective through this debate?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p style="font-size: 14px;"> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>D.</b> How would you summarize how this debate affected your thinking?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><o:p style="font-size: 14px;"> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><b style="font-size: 14px;">Closing:<o:p></o:p></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Thank you. </span><font face="Times New Roman, serif" style="font-size: 14px;"><o:p></o:p></font></div></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div>
<div>Jo Nelson</div><div>jo.r.nelson@gmail.com</div><div><br></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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