In late 2009 Bryson attended a training course organised by the "
The Dialogue Academy" which means that Omniscience can now offer to run Dialogue Events at your School or College to enable your students to explore Science in Society and recognise the validity of their own opinions.
What is a dialogue event?
Photos from our first academy at Explore-At-Bristol
Dialogue is...
- "A process of communication in which two or more participants engage in an open exploration of issues and relationships on an equitable basis."
- "Dialogue is the exchange of ideas, opinions, beliefs, and feelings between participants - both speakers and audience. It is listening with respect to others and being able to express one's own views with confidence.
- "Dialogue is not silence, chaos or one person or faction monopolising the session."
What does that mean in practice?
A dialogue event traditionally involves between 20 and 200 people exploring a contemporary issue for which there may be no obvious, clear cut, answer.
Dialogue events can last an entire day ( or even days!) but will often take just half a day to introduce students to the idea
The aims of a dialogue event include: