Socratic Dialogue

Giving Voice to Values is a tool that has helped many professionals better align what they do with what they value and believe. This book introduces the methodology of Socratic Dialogue as a complementary set of tools for creating spaces of joint reflection to gain clarity about one's values and gain the confidence to voice them effectively.

Giving Voice to Values is a very important tool that has helped many professionals better align what they do with what they value and believe. This book introduces the methodology of Socratic Dialogue as a complementary set of tools for creating spaces of joint reflection in which one can gain clarity about one's values and gain the confidence to voice them effectively.

Socrates' main concern was to progressively reach a higher alignment between ideas and actions: that is, to achieve a harmony between what we think, what we say and what we do. The first step to giving voice to our values involves introspection and dialogue with others - which is how we can become aware of what we really think and value. An examined life, Socrates reminds us, is a fulfilled one. Based on the authors' more than ten years' experience teaching Socratic Dialogue to business and law students, executives and professionals, faculty, incarcerated people and other vulnerable groups, the book provides teachers and practitioners with a roadmap to conceive, design and conduct Socratic Dialogue courses and sessions. It provides context for the method and its adaptation to the challenges of the 21st century. The book also offers guidance on how to structure a Socratic Dialogue classroom, as well as a series of tried-and-true activities and exercises, practical recommendations and testimonies of the transformative impact that dialogue courses have had on participants.

The book is of prime interest to professors and educators of business ethics, as well as professional consultants working to help organizations become more responsible and introduce ethical reasoning in their decisions. It also serves as a valuable resource for social educators and practitioners in prisons and rehabilitation units, as well as teachers in primary and secondary education.

Autorentext

Sira Abenoza is Lecturer in the Society, Politics and Sustainability department at ESADE where she teaches Socratic Dialogue from undergraduate to executive programs. She is also the Director of Vicens Vives Program on Leadership and founder of the Institute for Socratic Dialogue.

Josep M. Lozano is Professor in the Department of Society, Politics and Sustainability at ESADE. He has published more than thirty books and many papers in his areas of interest, which are CSR, Ethics, leadership and spirituality.

Inhalt

1. The need for dialogue 2. Back to the origins: Socrates and the examined life 3. Socratic Dialogue for the 21st Century 4. The pedagogy of dialogue in the classroom 5. Tips to facilitate Socratic Dialogue spaces 6. First-person stories 7. This is not the end