I began using the term Dialogue as a Research Methodology in 2014, although Professional Dialogue had been in use for research purposes for many years prior to that by me and my business associate and colleague Jane Ball. The first published research drawing on this methodology was undertaken by us for the UK Ministry of Justice in 2015. Before introducing the Research Methodology, it would probably help to say what I mean by Professional Dialogue. The word dialogue is used widely in the media to mean many different things, from the spoken text of a play or a movie, to a discussion or a negotiation between protagonists. This has led me and some of my colleagues to use the term Professional Dialogue to distinguish what we are doing from the meaning attributed by others to the word dialogue.
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