The Lancaster Dialogue
- give brief information on the meetings
- give a brief history of the meetings
- support the Wikipedia article on "Bohm Dialogue" and the reference to our meetings therein, and
4. give contact details for those interested in attending a meeting.
- Brief Information on the meetings.
The meetings currently take place at the Quaker Meeting House in Lancaster, on (usually) the first Saturday of each month. The Meeting House, address Meeting House Lane (LA1 1TX) is next door to Lancaster train station. The meetings start at 10.30am and we have four sessions, each lasting roughly 90 minutes. With a 90 minute break for lunch after the second session, we aim to finish at 6.30pm.
Those coming occasionally will normally pay a contribution of around £5 for the day, if they can afford it. Those coming regularly normally pay an annual contribution of around £50, again, if they are able to afford it. Some members generously sponsor those who cannot at present afford the travelling expenses and contribution themselves.
- Brief History of the Lancaster Dialogue.
We have been meeting as a group, monthly since February 1993, in the Friends Meeting House, Lancaster. Several of our members have attended regularly since that first meeting. We attract members from Scotland and Mid- Wales, as well as from as far afield as Leicestershire and even Devon.
Because of the nature of Dialogue (its similarities with unfacilitated groupwork) we attract therapists of all kinds who record the hours as part of their continuing professional development portfolio. We also attract members with other jobs and with no jobs, who have interests in philosophy, spirituality, language - and life as it is lived.
Several of our number have dabbled and experimented with the various on-line lists and groups which try to replicate the experience of Dialogue: their view is that these do not give the same experience as a face-to-face meeting.
- To support the Wikipedia Article on "Bohm Dialogue."
We would suggest that if you have an interest in Dialogue, by which we mean how we interact with ourselves and the world - the internal dialogue as well as the external - that you glance at the Wikipedia article, and perhaps also the original article "Dialogue - a Proposal" by David Bohm, Don Factor and Peter Garrett, which is available online.
Do bear in mind that this rather long introduction to what the founders of Dialogue are trying to achieve will give you little idea of what it might be like to actually attend a meeting.
