{"id":86076,"date":"2023-09-17T11:31:07","date_gmt":"2023-09-17T09:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=86076"},"modified":"2023-09-17T11:31:27","modified_gmt":"2023-09-17T09:31:27","slug":"dialogue-not-debate-the-key-to-healthy-spiritual-communities-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/?p=86076","title":{"rendered":"Dialogue not Debate: The Key to Healthy Spiritual Communities (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/WtQtIhM.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<center><\/p>\n<h3>Click below to start the player<\/h3>\n<p><\/center><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fgbcspt%2Fvideos%2F280174166702232%2F&#038;show_text=0&#038;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p>Debate<br \/>\n\u2022 is oppositional: two sides oppose each other and attempt to prove each other wrong<br \/>\n\u2022 has winning as the goal<br \/>\n\u2022 lets one side listen to the other side to find flaws and to counter its arguments: &#8220;listening to refute&#8221;<br \/>\n\u2022 defends assumptions as the truth<br \/>\n\u2022 causes critique of the other position<br \/>\n\u2022 defends one&#8217;s own positions as the best solution and excludes other solutions<br \/>\n\u2022 creates a dosed-minded attitude, a determination to be right<br \/>\n\u2022 prompts a search for glaring differences<br \/>\n\u2022 involves a countering of other position without focusing on feelings or relationship and often belittles or deprecates the other person<\/p>\n<p>Dialogue<br \/>\n\u2022 is collaborative: two or more sides work together toward a common understanding<br \/>\n\u2022 has finding common ground as the goal<br \/>\n\u2022 lets one side listen to the other side to understand<br \/>\n\u2022 reveals assumptions for reevaluation<br \/>\n\u2022 causes introspection of one&#8217;s own position<br \/>\n\u2022 opens the possibility of reaching a better solution than any of the original solutions<br \/>\n\u2022 creates an open-minded attitude, an openness to being wrong and an openness to change<br \/>\n\u2022 prompts a search for basic agreements.<br \/>\n\u2022 involves a real concern for the other person and does not seek to alienate or offend<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/Sa5DlmY.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\" https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/BgLWkMj.jpg\"\/><strong>By ISKCON GBC Strategic Planning Team<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> Join this conversation with Vraja Vihari Das and Deva Madhava Das as they unpack the idea behind having less debate and more dialogue as a key to developing healthy spiritual communities.  <!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86076"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94449,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86076\/revisions\/94449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dandavats.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}