Real Dialogue

What’s included?

Embracing both sides of your existence -- pleasure and pain, health and illness, ease and suffering, and life and death – means truly befriending yourself and others. This deep acceptance creates an opening to both love and truth in all conditions.

This four-part course (consisting of 16 video classes) offers a new way of perceiving and encountering your existence – to refuse nothing and to learn from everything. The course is guaranteed to change your mind about everything.

(Suitable for personal skills development, life coaches, executive coaches, and therapists for expanding awareness and insight about both contractive and expansive dimensions of our lives and relationships.)

To make this four-part journey as meaningful and accessible as possible, we’ve bundled the complete program into a single, comprehensive offering for just $196. This all-inclusive enrollment gives you access to every section of the course—each one building on the last to support deep insight, connection, and transformation. We invite you to commit to the full arc of learning, and discover the wisdom that unfolds when you walk the entire path.

  • You’ll Learn:

    1. How to reduce polarization in difficult conversations

    2. Practical skills for listening and speaking when emotions run high

    3. Core principles of Real Dialogue—as a personal skill, a facilitation method, and a way of living

  • You’ll Learn:

    1. Move beyond polarization and truly hear one another

    2. Speak for yourself and listen deeply—even under pressure

    3. Apply the 3 core principles of Real Dialogue in personal, professional, and public life

  • You’ll Learn:

    1. Define and describe the “3 C’s” of Real Dialogue: Commitment, Containment, and Constraint

    2. Define and describe human primary and secondary emotions

    3. Describe and apply the six domains of the “Snow Globe of Subjectivity”

  • You’ll Learn:

    1. Explain why it is difficult for people to speak and listen effectively during conflict

    2. Define and apply the concept of projective identification

    3. Identify how and when to introduce the Skill of Real Dialogue to others

Part I // Introduction to Real Dialogue: Overview of Principles and Practice

How can we increase our confidence that others “get” what we are saying when speakers and listeners are emotionally activated? How can we become skilled in speaking and listening during disagreements at home, at work, and in the world? Get an overview of how to avoid polarization and welcome differences when conditions are challenging.

This course introduces the principles and the practice of Real Dialogue. It is aimed at those who want an introduction or basic understanding of Real Dialogue which is an end-user skill, a facilitation method (for difficult conversations), and a set of principles for living without polarization.

Part 2 // Learning the Skill of Real Dialogue

This course introduces the Skill of Real Dialogue as a mindfulness practice for remaining present and open during emotional activation. Staying alert and responsive during emotional conflicts or disagreements requires special mindfulness skills – the ability to concentrate and remain open while being activated. This skill will help in doing clinical work, engaging in conflicted conversations in organizational meetings, and learning to navigate your own relationships freshly. You will learn how about human emotions, emotional entanglements and how to lower threat levels while speaking authentically and listening accurately.

The focus of this course is learning how to maintain self-awareness with clarity in seeing/hearing/feeling during stressful interchanges with others in order not to dehumanize self or others.

Part 3 // Engaging in Healthy Conflict:
Self-Awareness and Self-Regulation

This course introduces research and definitions of our “self-conscious” emotions that motivate us to protect and promote ourselves in groups, especially during stress and conflict. It also teaches how to prevent shaming or humiliating another person during challenging conversations and decision-making. The course will focus on applying mindfulness (concentration and equanimity) of our subjectivity in emotionally activating situations.

Part 4 // Teaching the Skill of Real Dialogue

This course introduces how to teach the Skill of Real Dialogue to others in therapy, work settings, and community groups. Learn how to teach and promote the skill in your organization or community. Learn how to use the skill informally, “on the go,” as well as in formal settings. If someone is confrontive, how do you lower emotional threat and remain curious? This course applies to everyday life as well as work and organizational settings.

Read, Listen, and Watch

Finding Ourselves on Different Sides: The Skill and Method of Real Dialogue™ (Preview)

Real Dialogue Training with Polly Young-Eisendrath

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