Geometry of Dialogue: A Visual Way of Understanding Interpersonal Communication and Human Developmen

The Geometry of Dialogue explores "the dynamic patterns" that unfold in human interaction. It features 3-dimensional, multi-colour flow charts that relate talking and listening to long-term processes of human development. Conflict is one of the key challenges that these visual models might help address; they are intended to describe and convey the kinds of processes that help people interact in more nurturing and creative ways.

This work is meant to support and explain various chapters in author Dennis Rivers' The Seven Challenges Workbook (click here for more information on this publication). As Rivers explains, "One of the most important ideas behind the Workbook is that cooperation is a more complex and mentally demanding activity than domination or conflict. That idea, from the work of developmental theorist Robert Kegan, strongly suggests to me that a more peaceful world will also be a more cognitively complex and mentally demanding world. The quest for a more peaceful family, workplace or world thus brings with it the task of modeling the complexity of cooperation, one crucial step toward generating it."

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