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Dialogue Interview
A prepared but generative one-to-one conversation (30–90 minutes) designed to open reflection rather than extract answers: the interviewer sets an inner container in silence beforehand, asks biographical and meaning-oriented questions, suspends judgment throughout, and closes the loop afterwards. Used to begin change initiatives by meeting people, not collecting data.
- Generative interviews wander into personal territory by design — the interviewee steers depth, the interviewer only opens doors
Practical
- Time
- 30-90 min + 15 landing
- Group
- 2–2 · pairs
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Materials
- Prepared questionnaire; quiet setting
- Mechanisms
- dialogic-encounter, narrative-identity, stillness-silence
- Change scope
- state → skill · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- u-school.org/dialogueinterview — u-school for Transformation — Theory U tools, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
- Licence
- CC BY (Presencing Institute)
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
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Origin
Otto Scharmer / Presencing Institute — Theory U (co-initiating phase)
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status: checked · added 2026-08-25