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Dialogic Intervention

This prestigious new accreditation programme starts with a one-week face-to-face session in the UK in Sept'24

Part One: Expertise and Practice Know-how
Where: Cotswold House Hotel, Chipping Campden, Glos GL55 6AL, UK
When: 16th to 20th September 2024
Fees: £2,500 – including all materials and refreshments during programme hours, and excluding accommodation and travel.

Early Bird payment in full by 16th June - £2,000
Faculty: Peter Garrett, Jane Ball and Jim Tebbe

 

Part Two: Working Experience
What: Four hours online coaching
Fees: £500

A group of four people stood talking

  • Dialogic Intervention is a highly skilful consulting methodology used by Dialogue Practitioners to intervene in any organization or social system. Dialogic Intervention is vital when an organization or social grouping finds itself challenged - but does not appear to have the capability to prevent (or even substantially mitigate) a predictable and costly negative outcome. Without a dialogic intervention, people ‘watch the  pending train crash’ unclear and impotent about what to do. Similarly, the challenge may be a significant  opportunity of great potential benefit where people can feel the possibility ‘slipping through their fingers’ without the wherewithal to do anything effective.

  • Applicants are required to have graduated as Accredited Professional Dialogue Practitioners (APDPs) from the Academy’s entry programme A Different Way of Working, or to have the equivalent skill competency. Where this is not the case, provision can be made to fill any significant gaps in the range of dialogic skills needed for dialogic intervention work. 

  • Lead members of the faculty are: 

    • Peter Garrett (practitioner and author of A New Kind of Dialogue)

    • Jane Ball(practitioner and author in The World Needs Dialogue! vols 1 t o 6)

    • Jim Tebbe (ex-lead Internal OD Consultant for Royal Dutch Shell)

     

    Between them the faculty have extensive experience of successful dialogic interventions, working at every level in commercial, governmental, social and educational organisations - along  with a practical understanding of the Practice Models that enable such work to be effective. 

     

    All Faculty Members for this Dialogic Intervention programme were included in the lead Dialogic Intervention Consultation Lead Task Force of five practitioners that defined the criteria for Dialogic Intervention, the Academy’s intermediate accreditation programme. 

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    Jane and Peter are Founding Members of the Academy of Professional Dialogue, and with Jim they  are Members of the Academy’s Professional Standards and Accreditation Board. 

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    The Dialogic Intervention programme will be delivered in English, as will the written materials. 

  • The Dialogic Intervention programme has two parts: 

    1. One week of in-person Expertise and Practice Know-how sessions with the faculty and a select group of fellow registrants, with a maximum of 12 people

    2. Followed by Working Experience ‘flying time’ to demonstrate Dialogic Intervention

     

    Capability. Part One: Expertise and Practice Know-how 

    Registrants participate in one week of intensive off-site in-person sessions exploring:

    a) the theory of dialogic intervention

    b) relevant dialogic skills, patterns and practices,

    c) the practitioner’s own model building development

    d) delivery capability needed for  this work – based on the direct experiences of the individual faculty members. 

     

    Specific attention is given to:

    a) how change occurs

    b) what changes and why

    c) how and  when to deepen participation and awareness

    d) the discovery and development of each practitioner’s inherent aptitudes

     

    The curriculum is primarily shaped by first-hand  experience, not by book knowledge.

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    First opportunity to register: Part One, in the UK, week of 16 to 20 Sept, 2024.

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    Part Two: Working Experience 

    Following Part One (Expertise and Practice Knowhow), participants are invited to demonstrate that they meet the pre-defined set of accreditation criteria provided by the Academy’s Professional Standards and Accreditation Board (PSAB). It is assumed that this working experience ‘flying time’ will take a minimum of one year. The faculty will provide four hours individual online coaching in support of registrants meeting their accreditation criteria. In person Learning Sessions will be provided on an annual basis at an additional cost, along with whatever further ongoing online coaching and tuition may be requested. 

  • Graduates will be recognised as Accredited Professional Dialogue lntervenors and entitled to use the initials APDI.

  • Accreditation is offered by the Academy of Professional Dialogue based  on a set of pre-defined criteria covering four sections:

    a) Professional Standing

    b) Dialogic Intervention Model

    c) Practice Skills to deliver a  Dialogic Intervention

    d) Evidence of Delivery Capability

     

    The pre-set accreditation criteria were formulated through an extensive Consultation on Dialogic Intervention held over 27 months by the Academy’s Professional Standards and Accreditation Board and completed in March 2024. The consultation Task Force was led by Peter Garrett (practitioner and author of A New Kind of Dialogue), William Isaacs (practitioner and author of Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together), Jim Tebbe (practitioner and ex internal OD Lead Consultant for Royal Dutch Shell), Jane Ball (practitioner and author in the series The  World Needs Dialogue! vols 1-6) and Lars- Åke Almqvist (practitioner and ex Vice President of  Swedish Kommunal Trade Union). 

  • The power and effectiveness of Dialogic Intervention comes from its ontological roots (drawn from David Bohm’s Implicate Order) that lead to key differentiating intervention features.

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    For example: 

    a) The beneficiary is the whole of the defined system, not one individual or grouping - so Dialogic Intervention is non-partisan

    b) The intervenor addresses systemic fragmentation in consciousness - and that requires the representation and participation of all parts of the system in the process

    c) There is no pre-determined solution led by subject-matter experts - instead there is an adaptive developmental process guided by the intervenor

    d) The intervention is based on a principle of integrity that things happen the way they do for a reason - and will continue to do so until that reason is understood and addressed

    e) And that necessitates a change in the collectively-held underlying storyline - without which the system will regress to its previous patterns of behaviour

  • Dialogic Intervention is not a form of mediation, arbitration, or negotiation.

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    Although they may well be incorporated into some dialogic intervention work, the following are examples of activities that in themselves are insufficient to be considered Dialogic Interventions: 

    a) training people to use dialogue skills

    b) setting up working groups that use dialogue skills

    c) holding an event (including with the whole system) that uses dialogue skills

    d) facilitating a meeting or series of meetings that have beneficial outcomes 

    e) changing people’s emotional disposition to help them with the way they do their work

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