Monday, June 8, 2009

The Gurteen perspective: Enabling conversation

David Gurteen explains why it’s important to ‘create a space’ for real conversation. I agree to his style of chairing conversation. where lets assume that the speaker has 40 minutes. He or she speaks for 20 minutes, 10 minutes is given over for conversation among the audience and then 10 minutes for Q&A.
I have participated in several conferences and the general mood of the organizers is to maintain silence. (discipline, where discussion among the audience is not promoted to allow the organizers to remain in control of the event, especially when the conference is chaired by State representative), The so called discipline in this case, helps the speaker to answer the queries of the respondent without any real conversation, may be to avoid disagreement and windup the sessions quickly. But above all, the mode of the delivery also depends on the profile of the audience and subject of discussion.

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