Lost in Language

Bohm Dialogue & Autism Dialogue

In this episode of Lost in Language Jessica talks to Jonny Drury. This conversation takes us on a journey through Jonny’s life, from his experiences as a child, to discovering psychedelics and Sufism, his introduction to Bohm Dialogue during his Fine Art degree, and being informed he met the criteria for Asperger’s and ADHD later in life, which led him to host the first Autism Dialogue in 2017. He then took up Autism and Coaching studies at postgraduate level and established Dialogica UKJonny shares how Bohm’s philosophy of wholeness, mirrored in other spiritual traditions, helps us understand the neurodiversity paradigm as a subset of biodiversity, recognising that everyone is different.Jonny is a dialogue facilitator, trainer, consultant and as a therapeutic coach, his modalities are mainly Transpersonal, Gestalt and integrative.  He specialises in autism, neurodiversity, and regenerative approaches to combat systemic trauma and fragmentation of consciousness - aiming to empower clients to embrace their uniquenesses and see past any unhelpful aspects of labels and categorising. This year he is launching his book the Autism Dialogue Approach Handbook.

Bohm Dialogue & The Body

In this episode of Lost in Language Jessica talks to Lee Nichol. They focus on the fundamental role of the body in a dialogue practice. Lee shares how Bohm’s early life, and the insights he was able to come to in physics provided a context for the importance of the body in a dialogue. as well as the relationship between the multiple bodies of the individual, collective and cosmos from Bohm’s perspective. Lee highlights the body’s role in how we think, perceive and sense in a dialogue, in ways that can allow us to participate in a vivid, awake, and directly participatory consciousness. Lee Nichol is Director of Bohmian Studies at the Pari Institute in Pari, Italy. As a freelance writer and editor, his latest works are Entering Bohm’s Holoflux and, as editor, Holoflux: Codex (both from Pari Publishing). He was a long-time friend and collaborator of David Bohm, and is editor of Bohm’s On Dialogue, The Essential David Bohm, and On Creativity. Lee has been on the faculty of the Tibetan Nyingma Institute in Berkeley, California and Denver University in Denver, Colorado. He sits on the Advisory Committee of the Pari Center, the Advisory Council of the Indigenous Education Institute, and is a member of the Founding Circle of the Native American Academy. He lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico with his wife Eva Casey.

Bohm Dialogue & Meaning

In this episode of Lost in Language Jessica talks to Beth Macy. Together they explore David Bohm’s work on meaning, inspired by his words ‘ a change of meaning is a change of being.’ Beth shares both stories of Bohm’s early life that gave him insight into how meaning is created, formed in and carried through movement, and stories of her own experience with dialogue, with a powerful example of truth telling in an organisation in crisis. As Bohm said, ‘meaning is the cement that holds society together, and at the moment we have very poor quality cement,’ Join us as we reflect on how dialogue can support us to improve the quality of our collective cement, and how we can all be meaning makers. The common thread throughout Beth’s work history has been change. Throughout most of her work life, she has been engaged with organizations experiencing difficult issues. Early in her career, Dr. Macy’s curiosity about effective change led her to achieving masters and doctorate degrees in management focusing on organizational behavior and organizational theory. Developing her own competencies first as a manager and as a leader, she then shifted to her long-time aspiration of coaching and consulting other organizational leaders. The types of organizations she’s worked with have varied from small to large, private to public, non-profit to profit, health care to manufacturing. A deep fascination with systems theory brought Beth in contact many years back with David Bohm's process of dialogue which ever since has been the core of her research, writing and practice. Living in the USA (Texas) she is completing a book on the ideas and individuals who influenced Bohm’s process of dialogue.

Bohm Dialogue & Artamovement

In this episode of Lost in Language Jessica talks to Hester Reeve. The invitation to Hester was to convey an aspect of Bohm’s concept of Artamovement. Bohm described Artamovement as the universal movement of fitting, and that to see what fits or does not fit, involves in the first instance, an unspecified feeling that something is wrong somewhere. As our conversation unfolds and stirs us, we explore feelings of what fits or does not fit, in the many experiences of being human. Hester Reeve is Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University and, linked to the ideas of David Bohm, a founding member of the Pari Holoflux experiments led by Lee Nichol. Composed of a considerable body of live art actions and associated drawings, sculptural objects and extended documentation experiments, her artworks function in co-relation to a complex, evolving array of conceptual priorities arrived at through extensive philosophical reading.

Visual Communication

In this episode of the Lost in Language Podcast Jessica talks to Rachel Porter, a former journalist, who took a swerve out of a career in newspapers and magazines, to join Scriberia. Though pictures are Scriberia's first language, as a writer first and foremost, Rachel has developed a keen sense of how the verbal and the visual relate and support each other. We explore the visual communication tools that Scriberia uses to help organisations to really get to the meaning beyond the words. Whether that is developing vision maps to be able to tell relatable stories that make sense to everyone; communicate complexity; or support people to improve their visual communication skills, all in order to better convey ideas, gain feedback and prioritise actions.