Academy of Professional Dialogue

A New Kind of Dialogue

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Society is fragmented. Dialogue is how we heal it. Bring the concept of Dialogue into your life and the way you work, through a series of interviews with the author of a New Kind of Dialogue, Peter Garrett. Jane Ball, co-founder of Dialogue Associates, sits down with Peter to reflect on the lifetime of colourful first-hand experiences that have shaped his understanding of human connection, from his childhood growing up in the African bush, to his work bringing groups of hardened criminals and prison guards together in conversation, and his career addressing organisational fragmentation.

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Academy of Professional Dialogue

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Oct 29, 2026

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Episodes

How To Think With Other Business Leaders | 100 Stories of Dialogue at Work Ep 16 29.10.2026

Episode 16 Your hosts are Jane Ball and Peter Garrett, who in conversational story-telling mode unravel the fuller meaning of Dialogue, exploring how we are all dynamically interlinked and why mastering Dialogue can change the way we work and live our lives. If you found today's story inspiring, please leave a review, rate us five stars, and subscribe to never miss an episode. To find out more...

High-Security Prisoners and Staff in an Extended Dialogue | 100 Stories of Dialogue at Work Ep 15 22.10.2026

Episode 15 Your hosts are Jane Ball and Peter Garrett, who in conversational story-telling mode unravel the fuller meaning of Dialogue, exploring how we are all dynamically interlinked and why mastering Dialogue can change the way we work and live our lives. If you found today's story inspiring, please leave a review, rate us five stars, and subscribe to never miss an episode. To find out more...

Migration for the Benefit of All | 100 Stories of Dialogue at Work Ep 14 15.10.2026

Episode 14 Your hosts are Jane Ball and Peter Garrett, who in conversational story-telling mode unravel the fuller meaning of Dialogue, exploring how we are all dynamically interlinked and why mastering Dialogue can change the way we work and live our lives. If you found today's story inspiring, please leave a review, rate us five stars, and subscribe to never miss an episode. To find out more...

Defragmenting a Huge Scottish Industrial Complex | 100 Stories of Dialogue at Work Ep 13 08.10.2026

Episode 13 Your hosts are Jane Ball and Peter Garrett, who in conversational story-telling mode unravel the fuller meaning of Dialogue, exploring how we are all dynamically interlinked and why mastering Dialogue can change the way we work and live our lives. If you found today's story inspiring, please leave a review, rate us five stars, and subscribe to never miss an episode. To find out more...

A Dialogic Organisation - the 12,000 Staff | 100 Stories of Dialogue at Work Ep 12 01.10.2026

Episode 12 Your hosts are Jane Ball and Peter Garrett, who in conversational story-telling mode unravel the fuller meaning of Dialogue, exploring how we are all dynamically interlinked and why mastering Dialogue can change the way we work and live our lives. If you found today's story inspiring, please leave a review, rate us five stars, and subscribe to never miss an episode. To find out more...

A Dialogic Organisation - The Top 120 Executives | 100 Stories of Dialogue at Work Ep 11 24.09.2026

Episode 11 Your hosts are Jane Ball and Peter Garrett, who in conversational story-telling mode unravel the fuller meaning of Dialogue, exploring how we are all dynamically interlinked and why mastering Dialogue can change the way we work and live our lives. If you found today's story inspiring, please leave a review, rate us five stars, and subscribe to never miss an episode. To find out more abo...

How to Shift an Entrenched Problem | 100 Stories of Dialogue at Work Ep 10 10.09.2026

Episode 10Your hosts are Jane Ball and Peter Garrett, who in conversational story-telling mode unravel the fuller meaning of Dialogue, exploring how we are all dynamically interlinked and why mastering Dialogue can change the way we work and live our lives. If you found today's story inspiring, please leave a review, rate us five stars, and subscribe to never miss an episode. To find out more...

Melting the Permafrost of Middle Management | 100 Stories of Dialogue at Work Ep 9 03.09.2026

Episode 9Your hosts are Jane Ball and Peter Garrett, who in conversational story-telling mode unravel the fuller meaning of Dialogue, exploring how we are all dynamically interlinked and why mastering Dialogue can change the way we work and live our lives. If you found today's story inspiring, please leave a review, rate us five stars, and subscribe to never miss an episode. To find out more a...

Sociotherapy and the Cambridge Community Dialogue | 100 Stories of Dialogue at Work Ep 8 27.08.2026

Episode 8Your hosts are Jane Ball and Peter Garrett, who in conversational story-telling mode unravel the fuller meaning of Dialogue, exploring how we are all dynamically interlinked and why mastering Dialogue can change the way we work and live our lives. If you found today's story inspiring, please leave a review, rate us five stars, and subscribe to never miss an episode. To find out more a...

Dynamic Dialogic Coaching | 100 Stories of Dialogue at Work Ep 7 20.08.2026

Episode 7 Your hosts are Jane Ball and Peter Garrett, who in conversational story-telling mode unravel the fuller meaning of Dialogue, exploring how we are all dynamically interlinked and why mastering Dialogue can change the way we work and live our lives. If you found today's story inspiring, please leave a review, rate us five stars, and subscribe to never miss an episode. To find out more...

Is There Such a Thing as a Criminal Justice System? | 100 Stories of Dialogue at Work Ep 6 17.08.2026

Episode 6Your hosts are Jane Ball and Peter Garrett, who in conversational story-telling mode unravel the fuller meaning of Dialogue, exploring how we are all dynamically interlinked and why mastering Dialogue can change the way we work and live our lives. If you found today's story inspiring, please leave a review, rate us five stars, and subscribe to never miss an episode. To find out more a...

What If Everyone Knew Where We Are Going? | 100 Stories of Dialogue at Work Ep 5 06.08.2026

Episode 5 Your hosts are Jane Ball and Peter Garrett, who in conversational story-telling mode unravel the fuller meaning of Dialogue, exploring how we are all dynamically interlinked and why mastering Dialogue can change the way we work and live our lives. If you found today's story inspiring, please leave a review, rate us five stars, and subscribe to never miss an episode. To find out more...

When Success Was A Non-Event! | 100 Stories of Dialogue at Work Ep 4 30.07.2026

Episode 4 Your hosts are Jane Ball and Peter Garrett, who in conversational story-telling mode unravel the fuller meaning of Dialogue, exploring how we are all dynamically interlinked and why mastering Dialogue can change the way we work and live our lives. If you found today's story inspiring, please leave a review, rate us five stars, and subscribe to never miss an episode. To find out more...

So What's the Plan? | 100 Stories of Dialogue at Work Ep 3 23.07.2026

Episode 3 Your hosts are Jane Ball and Peter Garrett, who in conversational story-telling mode unravel the fuller meaning of Dialogue, exploring how we are all dynamically interlinked and why mastering Dialogue can change the way we work and live our lives. If you found today's story inspiring, please leave a review, rate us five stars, and subscribe to never miss an episode. To find out more...

How Do You Defuse A Volatile Adversarial Crisis? | 100 Stories of Dialogue at Work Ep 2 16.07.2026

Episode 2 Your hosts are Jane Ball and Peter Garrett, who in conversational story-telling mode unravel the fuller meaning of Dialogue, exploring how we are all dynamically interlinked and why mastering Dialogue can change the way we work and live our lives. If you found today's story inspiring, please leave a review, rate us five stars, and subscribe to never miss an episode. To find out more...

Are We A Team? | 100 Stories of Dialogue at Work 09.07.2026

Your hosts are Jane Ball and Peter Garrett, who in conversational story-telling mode unravel the fuller meaning of Dialogue, exploring how we are all dynamically interlinked and why mastering Dialogue can change the way we work and live our lives. If you found today's story inspiring, please leave a review, rate us five stars, and subscribe to never miss an episode. To find out more about Jane...

The remarkable turnaround of one of the UK’s worst-performing prisons 12.09.2025

Want to know how to completely transform a failing prison? In the year 2000 HM Prison Dorchester in England was at rock bottom - suffering from the worst culture the Chief Inspector of Prisons said he had ever seen, and dangerously low performance ratings. Conditions for prisoners were terrible and every intervention was met with resistance.  In the most challenging environments, Dialogue serves a...

How a US Department of Corrections came to lead the nation 11.09.2025

The performance of a correctional system affects everyone. It affects the lives of those incarcerated or on probation, and it has a far reaching ripple effect throughout the community. The performance is measured by reoffending rates and public safety.  Virginia Department of Corrections became the best performing department of corrections in the US, with the lowest reoffending rate, after choosin...

How YOU Can Bring Dialogue Into Your Workplace - Improve Your Team and Organisation Now 02.12.2024

Inspired by the message of A New Kind of Dialogue? Ready to bring Dialogue into your workplace - to heal the fractures in your team and organisation? Jane and Peter offer a solution that’s simple to use and could change the way you work forever. Moving beyond the messages of the book, this unexpected 11th episode serves as a bridge between the podcast and what’s next - a brand new course titled Di...

The World Needs Dialogue - Birth of the Academy of Professional Dialogue 06.03.2024

Dialogue is not just a solution for organisations - they’re just the beginning. Dialogue could be, and is the answer to healing all of the world’s problems. The potential is vast and unending, but how to make it reach this wider consciousness? Delving into the final chapters of Peter’s book, we learn how Dialogue is now beginning to reach all corners of the globe, as its wider societal impact is f...

Rooting Out Fragmentation - Dialogue Becomes Whole  28.02.2024

Everything Peter - and you - has learned about Dialogue now becomes whole. Here we see an integrated model develop, punctuated by four impactful theories which blend together everything from consciousness to how Dialogue makes change happen. Through compelling anecdotes and personal experiences, Peter then leads a discussion about the eight axioms of Dialogue, which draw on the narrative and learn...

Finding a Common Understanding - Healing the Fragmentation 21.02.2024

Dialogue has found a place in all types of organisations, from prisons to SMEs to multinational corporations. It has moved beyond single team interventions to something that impacts and changes whole systems. But how it does that depends on the type of system it’s being introduced into - open or closed reporting lines. In this episode Peter shares examples of open and closed systems he’s worked wi...

ALL people are intelligent and compassionate, revealed through DIALOGUE 14.02.2024

What exactly is Dialogue? Its applications have proven to be numerous and its impact undeniable. But until now we’ve not offered a structured definition. That doesn’t work so well in the world of business, where deadlines need to be met and budgets spent wisely. So, to get into organisations, the main source of fragmentation in our world, Peter gets to work codifying the practice he’s been develop...

Why organisations are fragmented, and how ‘radical openness’ can fix them 07.02.2024

From prisons to the corporate world of organisations, the remit of Dialogue expands further as Peter looks to heal  ‘a pervasive area of fragmentation’ in our society. First we canter through Peter’s fascinating history within organisations, beginning with his first day in school, right through to working as a builder’s merchant, a bank cleric, running his own businesses and becoming a consultant....

Hitmen, sex offenders and serial murderers: Transforming prisons through Dialogue 31.01.2024

By this point in the story, Dialogue had become a firm fixture at HMP Whitemoor, and Peter was regularly convening sessions with some of the most violent criminals in the prison. Like an unexplored part of the world waiting to be travelled, Peter met all manner of people he’d have never otherwise encountered. Whether hitmen or rapists, the stakes were high and the challenges were many, but the val...

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