Real Dialogue

What’s Real Dialogue Training?

In a world where disagreement often leads to disconnection, Real Dialogue offers another path—one that helps us stay present, curious, and connected, even when emotions run high. Whether at home, in the workplace, or in public life, many of us are seeking more skillful ways to speak and listen when it matters most.

This series introduces the core principles and practices of Real Dialogue—a unique approach that blends mindfulness, communication, and emotional awareness. It is designed for anyone who wants to grow in their ability to navigate conflict, foster mutual understanding, and stay grounded in the face of difference. Through a combination of practical tools and deep insight into human emotions, Real Dialogue helps us move beyond polarization and toward more authentic connection.

Whether you're new to these ideas or looking to deepen your practice, this series will support you in cultivating the clarity, presence, and resilience needed for truly transformative conversations. Additional asynchronous courses (Part 3 & 4) in the series will be available following the completion of the live webinars on CE-Go.com.

  • 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

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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

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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

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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.

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Part 4 // Teaching the Skill of Real Dialogue

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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.

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

Making Deeper Contact

Polly Young-Eisendrath, renowned Jungian analyst and author, presents Making Deeper Contact—an invitation to explore life’s essential themes of life and death, joy and pain, darkness and light, and awaken to a deeper, more conscious engagement with the human experience.

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Part I // Befriending Our Imperfect, Impermanent, Impersonal World

Part 2 // Transforming Health/Illness, Purity/Disgust, Enemy-Making, and Blame

Part 3 // The Path of True Love

Part 4 // Befriending Loss, Betrayal, Decline and Death in this Imperfect World

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Expanding Your Awareness and Skills to Embrace What Life Brings

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.)