About the Academy
The Academy is an international non-profit educational charity promoting the use of Professional Dialogue™ for the sustained well-being of organisations, communities, and society as a whole. The Academy inspires and informs a generative way of working through Professional Dialogue™ by:
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Holding an annual conference: The World Needs Dialogue!
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Acknowledging the work and contribution made by skilled Professional Dialogue Practitioners through publishing accounts of their Dialogue work
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Providing certificated training courses and accredited developmental programmes for those wanting to become Professional Dialogue Practitioners
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Deepening and extending the scope and applicability of the whole field of Professional Dialogue™
At the heart of the Academy is a Community of Accredited Professional Dialogue Practitioners who are working together to establish the steady growth and global contribution of this unique professional work.
Founding Members & Donors
Founding Members - Chipping Campden, UK
25th March 2017
The roots of the Academy stretch right back to the inaugural work conceiving of Dialogue with theoretical physicist David Bohm in the late 1980s and early 1990s based on his Implicate Order ontology. By 2017 it became apparent that a new profession had taken form, and in March 2017 the Academy of Professional Dialogue was formed in Chipping Campden. Gloucestershire, UK.
In alphabetical order, the eleven Founding Members were Lars-Ake Almquist (Sweden), Jane Ball (UK), Trine-Line Biong (Norway), Peter Garrett (UK), Beth Herman (USA), Jim Herman (USA), Florian Junge (Germany), Thomas Klug (Germany), Mark Seneschall (UK), Hugh Pidgeon (UK) and Bill Taylor (UK).
Lars-Ake Almquist, Jane Ball, Jim Herman and Peter Garret were appointed Trustees, and Peter Garrett was appointed Chairman of the International Board.
We are pleased to acknowledge all who responded to the Founders’ Call request and provided financial support to establish the international, not-for-profit Academy of Professional Dialogue:
LARS-ÅKE ALMQVIST
JANE BALL
FLUX FOUNDATION
GAIASOFT
PETER GARRETT
JAMES HERMAN
BERNHARD HOLTROP
WILLIAM ISAACS
ROBERT SARLY
HENRIK TSCHUDI
RENATE VAN DER VEEN
LARS-ÅKE ALMQVIST
JANE BALL
FLUX FOUNDATION
GAIASOFT
PETER GARRETT
JAMES HERMAN
BERNHARD HOLTROP
WILLIAM ISAACS
ROBERT SARLY
HENRIK TSCHUDI
RENATE VAN DER VEEN
LARS-ÅKE ALMQVIST
JANE BALL
FLUX FOUNDATION
GAIASOFT
PETER GARRETT
JAMES HERMAN
BERNHARD HOLTROP
WILLIAM ISAACS
ROBERT SARLY
HENRIK TSCHUDI
RENATE VAN DER VEEN