The Definition of a TeleClass
Definition of a Teleclass: TeleClasses are live,
interactive learner driven classes, conducted over the telephone
through state-of-the-art teleconferencing bridge systems.
You can expect to receive knowledge, tools, strategies and
techniques over the phone. Most successful TeleClasses are
designed for individuals to participate in stimulating and
meaningful conversations that can benefit their lives and
business immediately. This all takes place from the convenience
of your home or office and with no travel time.
How Does It Work: Each TeleClass is facilitated by
a trained TeleClass leader. The TeleClass leader welcomes
each caller and asks their name and where they are from. TeleClasses
session are usually one hour long, sometimes conversation
based and occasionally lecture based. Just like a live seminar,
students may participate as much or as little as they wish.
Dialogue Quote:
Teaching and learning through Dialogue: Quote from William
Isaacs book Dialogue and the Art of Thinking Together
page 14.
"Too many of us have lost touch with the fire of conversation.
When we talk together, it is rarely with depth. For the most
part, we see our conversations as either opportunities to trade
information or opportunities to win points. Difficulties that
might otherwise be resolved or even dissolved persist. And often
we find we simply do not have the wherewithal to genuinely consider
new possibilities, new options. Such miscommunication or misunderstanding
condemns us to look elsewhere for the creative intensity that
lies dormant within and between us. Yet it is an intensity that
could revitalize our institutions, our relationships and ourselves"
3 Elements necessary for Dialogue
Speaking and listening for golden nuggets. One voice often
speaks for others.
- Equality and the absence of coercive influence- all participants
must be treated equally- even though outside the context
of the dialogue there may be large status differences. In
the dialogue equality must reign.
- Listening with Empathy- the ability of participants to
respond with unreserved empathy to the views of others.
- Bringing assumptions into the open without judgments.
The theorists of dialogue also concur that dialogue must
be concerned with:
- bringing forth people's most deep - rooted assumptions.
- Encouraging each speaker to examine his / her own
assumptions and those of other participants.
- Everyone and every contribution is acknowledged with
respect.
NB: For those interested in more information about the process
and technology of Dialogue, please visit Brenda's
website
There is even a nice PowerPoint presentation there!
'Leaders don't give people the answers. They
gather people together to find answers. . .'
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'When we seek for connection, we restore the
World to wholeness. Our seemingly separate lives become meaningful
as we discover how truly necessary we are to each other. We
do not live in a world that encourages separateness. Only
when we join with others do our gifts become visible, even
to ourselves.'
Margaret Wheatley
From A Simpler Way, looking at the way life organizes and
how essential we are to each other's inquiry.
'When people come together out of genuine Self interest,
willing to share their strengths and to create a shared
vision, magic happens, synchronicities abound and doors
open. Life naturally evolves out of the chaotic and disorderly,
to a higher level of organization.'
James Redfield
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