One in a series of CLUB OF BUDAPEST - MEMBER INITIATIVES ~ Viewsletter # 2, August 1996
Inviting and Sharing ~
Voices
and Views
Heiner Benking, Founding Editor
Heiner has worked on some imaginative and innovative approaches to
dialogue and group communication, which he calls the ‘Art of the Arts’. Drawing
on a chaotically wide source of inspiration including the Paris Salon, the idea of the
Round Table, and the work of Anthony J. N. Judge, he has developed some simple but
radically effective techniques which threaten to reinvent the art of meetings and how we
share context:
Time-Credits which entitle speech and which participants can use or give away to empower
and invite
others to speak.
The use of metaphors, to enable the deliberate exploration of
world views, for
example:
spacial conceptualization, embodying, merging, and
morphing of positions, topics, issues, and perspectives.
Models based on and revealing the architecture of natural thought processes which enable
thorough
understanding and
exploration of inner and outer complexity from the perspective of being part of
the picture.
His design of visually accessed embodied conceptual terrains can help to map and discuss
"What and
where we know" and
to take specific positions in an overview or Cognitive Panorama - be member
and part of Nature,
instead of being restricted to the position of spectator, as typical for conventional
world views. (see also
ISSS Conference, The Club of Budapest Global Event No.3).
Heiner has played or tested ‘integral or diagonal thinking’ and the ‘Art of the Arts’ -Communication- with children, women, men, scientists, economists, politicians, and philosophers.