Interact! Intergenerational Dialogue for Innovation
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The document summarizes an intergenerational dialogue event featuring experts from different generations and perspectives. Matthew Moehlmann, Sue James, and Margaret Schiller presented on utilizing different methods of communication, ways of thinking, and points of reference to facilitate intergenerational understanding. The discussion highlighted that intergenerational dialogue requires an openness to different perspectives from all generations and acknowledges that neither old nor new ideas should be dismissed. True intergenerational exchange involves transformation by releasing preconceptions and cocreating new shared understandings.
Interact! Intergenerational Dialogue for Innovation
- 1. D. e, Ph. M oehl ore Matthew hange C iv eC Posit s na l J ame Internatio Sue minars .D. BJ Se lle r, Ph e Schi e Core Marg ang Ch ive Posit
- 2. Different methods of communicating
- 4. Different points of reference
- 7. What is one example of a powerful intergenerational conversation that you have had? When and where did it happen? Who was there? Who began it? What was the reason you started talking together? What is one thing you gained from this conversation? From the story you heard, what resonated with you? What moved you?
- 10. In the stories you shared, what made the dialogue intergenerational, not just multigenerational?
- 12. Maximum Mix is Magic Don't Do Anything About Me Without Me We Must Leverage the Best from ALL Generations Old does not necessarily = Bad New does not necessarily = Good Intergenerational is not a single story
- 13. • Intergenerational dialogue begins with our own transformation • Transformation simultaneously requires finishing something and creating something different • While I am letting go or dissolving an old image, conclusion, worldview, or certainty within myself, I am, at the same time, inventing something new • The process requires extraordinary energy • Return on investment is large… and there is nothing like it
- 14. Every interaction can be life changing