Welcome to the Dialogue.
Dialogic Action CIC
Dialogica works in the field of neurodiversity, providing safe, confidential, and non-judgmental environments where all who are impacted by misunderstandings and exclusion can come together to foster improved relationships, share experiences and develop common understanding and acceptance, for better lives, work and vocations.
We are the creators and first generation facilitators of the Autism Dialogue Approach®, a powerful, equity-based model for developing understanding, increasing acceptance, improving conditions for autistic people and supporting better action for autism and neurodiversity.
Our team are certified professionals with many years experience designing and developing programmes. We each have our own specialist coaching and mentoring work that drives the enterprise.
The Autism Dialogue Approach®
Autism is from a Greek word literally meaning ‘self’. Supported by set of easily learned skills, we facilitate a mindful enquiry to help restore wholeness and sense of self to individuals and their organisational, community and family systems. Dia-logue (Greek roots; ‘through’ and ‘relational’) aims to facilitate deep, collective communication, addressing fragmentation and ultimately the return to selfhood. In this new type of psycho-social group coaching, we are sensitive to the complexities of the oppressed minority stuck in fragmented systems. ADA aids mental recovery, reduces anxiety, improves personal wellbeing and restores harmony to the whole, to instil a sense of deeper potential and cohesion. Autism is a catalyst for profound concerns in all fields of communication and ADA provides a sustained, collective enquiry that ultimately aims to address the human crisis of communication and loss of selfhood.
To appreciate the true power of Dialogue, it is important to differentiate the word from other definitions. This special form of group conversation involves an agreement to engage in open and honest sharing of thinking, by free exchange, without agenda. It’s a place where everyone can experience everyone else’s point of view fully and equally and ‘unity in diversity’ can be reached. Skilled facilitators carefully and safely encourage a sense of equity and authenticity via the group’s dynamics, thinking and language. The Dialogue approach shifts stuck patterns, releases potential and generates new knowledge, allowing everyone to learn experientially and enable right action together. A range of easily learned skills, led by the Dialogue Practices help to deepen insight and trust for forging new solutions and action, both individually and collectively.
The word dialogue is made from the Greek words dia, meaning across or between and legein, meaning to speak. In this way we can see words and meaning flowing across and between our ever-changing perceptions of our selves. Quantum Scientist Professor David Bohm advocated for a new mode of language he called the rheo-mode, which would give more emphasis to the verb instead of our noun-based language. Here at Dialogica, this approach to a more flowing, holistic language correlates with the fundamental experience of autism, a phenomena of our time (relating to the nature of self in its very name) and manifests as ‘the perception of the forming of experience’ (Manning, 2015). Read more about the Autism Dialogue Approach™ here.
David Bohm was concerned with the crisis of communication in society that he said leads to fragmentation of consciousness and society. He developed a primary technique of group dialogue, along with Peter Garrett and Donald Factor in the 1980’s. Our concerns delve beyond the ‘crisis of communication’ into addressing the fragmentation of ‘being’ and ‘interbeing’ and a perceived loss of selfhood, so prevalent in our world.