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The DACU Society seeks to change the paradigm for how we enter into dialogue on topics vital to our capacity to live together.

About

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The DACU Society   creates a forum for exploring the role of dialogue that bridges multicultural, interdisciplinary and intergenerational points of view.  Our focus is on how we enter into a dialogue together to create new meaning that is inclusive and non-polarizing.  In that spirit, DACU will host at least one dialogue event annually. For 2015 DACU is sponsoring the Universal Responsibility events, hosted by Lord Rowan Williams.
 

Advisory Board

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Philip Guildford

Claudio Gutierrez 

Edward Kessler, Ph.D

Hilary Papworth

Tersh Raybold

Ellen Wolfe

Mission

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Scientific discoveries and technical progress in recent centuries have produced great benefits. But progress as we now define it comes at a cost as resources, skills and teaching focus on increasingly narrow fields of study. Pursuit of depth has come at the expense of breadth and of perceptions of interdependence. The challenges of the 21st century demand that we teach, learn and practice dialogue skills to actively re-engage in how we may live together well. Through vivifying ideas, meetings of minds, and creative and caring engagements, we grow as a human community.

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"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."

MARGARET MEAD

Inaugural Dialogue Contributors

Lord Rowan Williams

HH Dalai Lama

Bill Papworth

What is Dialogue?

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Underlying the DACU Society events is a commitment to dialogue as a non-polarizing and inclusive process in which all points of view find a place at the table. Rather than holding to fixed points of view in opposition to others, “we are participating in this pool of common meaning which is capable of constant development and change.”^[1] Together we learn, practice and teach dialogue skills to actively and mindfully engage responsibly in an evolving world. It is thus not just “what” we have to say, but “how” we contribute to the dialogue and the new possibilities that emerge.

[1] Unfolding Meaning - A Weekend of Dialogue with David Bohm, Remarks on the Process of Dialogue (Ark Paperbacks, 1985)

Cameron Taylor

DACU Co-Founder & Executive Director

DACU is possible thanks to the generous support of:

Patrons

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Ho Cho, Ph.D

Lord Rowan Williams

Professor John Wood

Universal Responsibility: Growing Wisdom. Changing People.