The document provides instructions for participants in a workshop to practice dialogue through a structured activity. Participants will be paired up and draw straws to determine who will ask questions and who will answer for 90 seconds. Without pre-establishing questions or themes, the pairs will use the time to find what they have in common and differ on. At the end, each pair will try to formulate either a shared new opinion or two separate opinions on the topic discussed. The goals of the activity are to concretely understand where the participants' views align or differ and develop new perspectives through respectful and patient dialogue.

1. Workshop, 14.5.2015
dialogue-how to start?

3. THEME/
HOW TO INITIATE A DIALOGUE?
HOW TO REACT IN A DIALOGUE?

4. TASK/
WHO ARE YOU UNTIL NOW?

5. FEEDBACK/
Sometimes I make mistakes
Sometimes my motivation is egoistic
I am a part of the problem

6. TEST/ GOOD PRACTICE
C2C/CITIZEN TO CITIZEN
WE PRACTICE: /dialogue as a conversation on a given
topic (in the form of an interview)/
method: constructive confrontation with one’s self
COURSE: [every pair - 90 seconds]
- the participants create pairs
/PARTICIPANTS in pairs draw straws – who will ask
questions and who will answer; the one with the
short straw asks – the one with the long one answers

7. Recording the dialogue – 90 seconds per pair
The person who asks starts:
DO WE ESTABLISH OUR QUESTIONS AND THEMES BEFORE?
Each pair has to find out within 90 seconds what they have in
common and what not.
At the end of the conversation each pair tries to formulate a
common, new opinion or two separate opinions.
TEST/ GOOD PRACTICE

8. HELP FOR THE TASK
AIMS
Get to know concretely what we have in common on a given
theme
Get to know concretely what we do not have in common on a
certain theme
Formulate a common, new opinion or two separate opinions on a
given theme
METHOD
Close listening
Good will
Sincerity
Respect
Patience

9. THANK YOU VERY MUCH