Dialogue: Formal process is more than dialogue

Everybody talks.

Few people dialogue.

But Alicia Rodriguez and Judith O'Brien are determined to change that by holding a variety of seminars and meetings about the formal way of speaking and understanding others.

One of the places they've recently conducted training is at Severna Park's Severn School, where teachers hope to soon use dialogue in classes with middle school students.

"We'd all be much better off if we had more dialogic moments in life," said Ms. O'Brien, who lives in St. Mary's County and runs RIVERSPEAK Dialogues.

"Dialogue ... can produce transformative ways of thinking," said Ms. Rodriguez of...