Week 5, Web Lecture, Post 4: Mindful Dialogue

In Professor Cyborg's web lecture on "Democracy and Dialogue," she defines mindful dialogue as dialogue that "goes beyond an individual commitment to dialogue to embrace the notion of 'thinking together' in innovative and creative ways.

Mindful dialogue seems like a great way for teams to communicate with each other. Often times groups get hung up on personal agendas that the end goals are seemingly forgotten. At the last place I worked, we had a lot of brainstorming sessions in which someone would write ideas on a whiteboard or a large white pad and everyone in the group was given a chance to participate. And from there, these ideas would get filtered and further worked on until they became projects. It was a colloborative way that allowed everyone a voice and and a creative way of thinking about future projects of interest.