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HUMANISING CONVERSATION: RECONNECTING WITH LIFE
| Abstract: The authors have been aware of pervasive dehumanising processes and their toxic effects on limiting the optimal development of human potential. Living in a rapidly changing world we are constantly confronted with diverse systemic challenges to survive and to maximise our adaptive capacity. One of the most accessible processes to enhance human wellbeing has involved conversations with a wide range of both professional and nonprofessional conversational partners, especially in times of uncertainty, crisis, and times of personal challenge. We demonstrate, based on our personal experience of participating in a dyadic conversation, that such conversations are able to enhance creativity, vitality, understanding, and facilitate deep relational learning. Given the complexity and widespread distribution of systemic challenges to human wellbeing, the current findings provide an accessible yet core process for enhancing human wellbeing. In this article informed by social constructionist assumptions we set out the basis of such a claim through an exploratory analysis and illustrative case study of one such dyadic conversation. The extension of theory and practice through further research and application of such accessible conversational learning has much to offer in countering the increasing dehumanising processes in society. |
| Keywords: dyadic conversation, dialogue, humanising, creativity, wellbeing, learning. |
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