Our Goals

The European Network for Dialogue Facilitation (ENDF)

… is a result of the multilateral project "DIALOGUE - Facilitating Creative Communication" which trained trainers from different countries in dialogue facilitation based on the methodological approach developed by the quantum physicist David Bohm and others.

The purpose of the network is education and further education for enhancing dialogical skills of individuals and groups in different fields of practice to promote respectful, tolerant, diversity appreciating and democratic attitudes for co-operation of people and organisations on different levels.

Promoting dialogic intercultural and interreligious communication for common and mutual learning is one of the main aims.

We offer learning arrangements for dialogic civic education to strengthen European citizenship and international cooperation.

Members are certified dialogue facilitators from 10 countries and dialogue facilitating trainers and researchers with teaching background in universities. One of the main purposes is transnational cooperation and project work aiming at networking of these experts to disseminate the dialogue message.

The board and experts have built and are active in working groups like research, training of trainers, certification standards for facilitators, quality assurance and ethical standards, summer academies, project development.

All of them are dealing in their professional life with the subject of dialogical communication but from different perspectives - like research, teaching, training, facilitating etc.

The board organizes "Training of Trainers for Dialogue Facilitating" in German and English language, seminars, workshops, conferences and other kinds of learning offers.

In developing transnational projects aiming at disseminating the dialogue idea and enlarging the community of certified dialogue facilitators the ENDF tries to enrich the culture of communication in European countries in different fields.

We are members of the Academy of professional Dialogue, London, and take part actively in preparing and implementing the annual conferences “The World needs Dialogue”.

Our board members are involved in the Global Dialogue Collective of the US Academy of Professional Dialogue and the Peace Building Group of Dialogue Facilitators.

The German legally registered association

“European Network for Dialogue Facilitation e.V.” is the nucleus for developing national and transnational projects and events.