The Spirit of Dialogue Book Talk

Author Event with Aaron Wolf

Friday November 16 | 7:00PM - 8:30PM

Grass Roots Books
227 SW 2nd St.
Corvallis, OR 97333

Aaron T. Wolf is a Professor of Geography in the College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University. He has acted as a consultant to the World Bank and several international governments and agencies on various aspects of transboundary water resources and dispute resolution. A trained mediator/facilitator, Wolf directs the Program in Water Conflict Management and Transformation, through which he has offered workshops, facilitations, and mediations in basins throughout the world.

As a longtime mediator, Aaron T. Wolf has learned that negotiations are shaped by complicated dynamics—from how comfortable the meeting room is to the participants’ deepest senses of self. Bridging seemingly intractable issues means addressing multiple layers of needs. Wolf’s approach to this complex task may be surprising to westerners—less so to those from cultures that do not separate rationality from spirituality. The Spirit of Dialogue draws lessons from a diversity of faith traditions to transform conflict, from identifying the root cause of anger to the true listening practiced by Buddhist monks. Whether atheist or fundamentalist, Muslim or Jew, Quaker or Hindu, any reader involved in difficult dialogue will find concrete steps towards a meeting of souls.

The author will be reading and signing books at this event.