Bohmian Dialogue

I had the immense privilege to meet the eminent physicist, David Bohm, several times when a mature student at Brockwood Park School in Hampshire. Named by Einstein as one of his two intellectual heirs, (the other was Richard Feynman) Bohm's life-story is too strange for fiction. Some of his story is told in the film Infinite Potential

Apart from his contribution to quantum physics, Bohmian Dialogue was perhaps his most valuable legacy. This is a way of meeting with others regularly over time to drill down into the system of thought which is at the root of conflict, within ourselves and writ large in the world.

In my work I use dialogue in the same way that Bohm used the term - as a flow of meaning. Liberating this flow of meaning in groups is what I see as the aim of a facilitator. A flow so strong that all attempts to capture it with thought and come to some handy conclusion are thwarted. This is also the aim of Bohmian Dialogue. To bring awareness to the pernicious dynamic of selfing and 'thing'ing. Which when brought into the the light, what Bohm called proprioception, has nowhere to hide.

Bohm's proposal on dialogue and his hope for it as a way of helping humanity become more human, can be read here