{"id":70049,"date":"2026-01-29T00:08:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T23:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=70049"},"modified":"2026-01-29T23:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T22:29:12","slug":"the-transformative-power-of-dialogue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/the-transformative-power-of-dialogue\/","title":{"rendered":"The Transformative Power of Dialogue"},"content":{"rendered":"Dominic Barter is the creator of Restorative Circles. When I thought about how to introduce him, I wanted to say he is a teacher of dialogue. But he said, \u201cI'm a student of dialogue.\u201d\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGerald H\u00e4fner: Welcome, Dominic. What does it mean to be a student of dialogue?\n\n\n\nDominic Barter: Thank you, Gerald. It means I'm engaged in an adventure of exploration, questioning, and inquiry that has no end. I like Martin Buber\u2019s definition of dialogue so much: a conversation between equals where the ending is unknown. It's that unknown quality which I find so stimulating\u2014the suggestion that there is always something emerging at the margins of our personal life, our relational life, and our social life that doesn't yet have a name or a definition. That's the new that I'm looking for and l<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to keep reading? We're pleased to present our Summer 2026 offer, valid until August 8: <a href=\"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/subscribe\/\"> three months of free access <\/a> \u2013 cancel anytime.\r\n<br><br>\r\nIf you're already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log in here<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominic Barter is the creator of Restorative Circles. When I thought about how to introduce him, I wanted to say he is a teacher of dialogue. But he said, \u201cI&#8217;m a student of dialogue.\u201d Gerald H\u00e4fner: Welcome, Dominic. What does it mean to be a student of dialogue? Dominic Barter: Thank you, Gerald. It means I&#8217;m engaged in an adventure of exploration, questioning, and inquiry that has no end. I like Martin Buber\u2019s definition of dialogue so much: a conversation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22297,"featured_media":69846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8797,8838,8845],"tags":[11748,8798,11750],"class_list":["post-70049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conversation-en","category-time-issues","category-social","tag-ausgabe-1-2-2026-en","tag-deepening","tag-english-issue-5-2026"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22297"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}