Join other business leaders online in this open, participatory Dialogue to elevate your capacity to lead, communicate, collaborate, and thrive in these times of great change.
While we Dialogue together about current leadership, business challenges and opportunities, we'll pay attention to noticing and building capacity to suspend assumptions and judgement. This is a critical skill for not only Dialogue and communication, but also as a foundation for innovation, resiliance and agility.
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The practice of suspending is critical to effective leadership and building collaborative, coherent, innovative team cultures.
Everyone holds assumptions, opinions, beliefs or judgments. This is a normal part of how human beings filter perception and make sense of the world. However, these often inhibit open communication, create distrust, cause conflict, stifle creativity, and block understanding.
In the Bohm Dialogue practice of 'suspending', participants are invited to at least temporarily suspend or let go of assumptions, beliefs or certainty about things and open up to understanding other possibilities, viewpoints, experiences or ideas. Dialogue is not about convincing others of your views, but with curiosity, attempting to clarify, connect and understand others. In the practice of opening your mind, you may come to knowing yourself better too.
Some tips for suspending: