Purpose, Goals, and The Conversation
- Purpose: A society in which disagreement, learning, and enjoyment are encouraged in conversations
- Encourage everyone to question, to inquire, to search for more information
- Hear people from different backgrounds
- Having different backgrounds means that others see the same ideas, in different ways. Those different ways can facilitate ways to improve the ideas
- Improve listening skills
- Listening is an active activity
- Very difficult because each individual has many distractions
- Part of having a conversation, means listening to what others have to say
- Belonging
- More and more are feeling lonely, while humans are social animals
- Support disagreement
- Negative feedback
- Accepting of differences
- Disagreeing is difficult. Need to support disagreement, to have disagreement
- Support Agreement
- Positive feedback
- Without some support, all that can be hear are the things that are wrong
- Emotional understanding
- How to achieve purpose?
- Book club events
- A major source of conversation, in which people come to hear conversations
- Provide direction for conversation
- A very active activity that encourages participation
- Community events
- Provide application to what is learned
- Book shop visits
- Talking about books and ideas that we want to talk about
- Museums
- Zoos / Aquariums
