Alan Stewart's On-line Papers (See also Alan Stewart's Multimind Solutions)

Alan Stewart, PhD, is a professional conversationalist and founder director of a group called Multimind Solutions. They facilitate communication processes for corporate, government and community organizations which ensure that people contribute creatively, collectively and wholeheartedly to the solution of complex issues.

Alan travels widely as a consultant/facilitator of conversational processes, mainly in Asia-Pacific countries and the USA, so far. He has been a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University in California and had an appointment as Adjunct Professor at Union Institute and University in Ohio.

Alan is now living in Hong Kong and can be contacted at alanmstewart@gmail.com

Alan is an experienced facilitator of 'Open Space Technology' (see http://www.openspaceworld.org) and a founder member of the Open Space Institute of Australia. He also facilitates 'Conversing Café' (see http://www.theworldcafe.com) a process that promote effective conversing, and offers workshops and courses for groups and professional coaching for individuals on conversing skills.

Alan was a keynote speaker at the 1st World Conference for Systemic Management, in Vienna in May 2001 ( http://www.isct.net). His paper, which has been submitted for inclusion in the conference proceedings to be published, is posted here in the meantime as
The Conversing Company: its culture, power and potential.

Alan also presented the following paper at the 2001 annual conference of the American Society of Cybernetics in Vancouver (http://www.asc-cybernetics.org).
Creating a Culture of Conversing: Applying cybernetic notions to business praxis.

A story of a new approach to community consultation being developed and implemented by Alan and colleagues can be found at http://www.theworldcafe.com/storyconversing.html.

Alan was co-editor of Seized by Agreement, Swamped by Understanding, a collection of papers to celebrate Maturana's 1994 Australian visit. These are his papers on this web site at present.

Constructivism and Collaborative Enterprises Alan Stewart
Cybernetic Conversation Alan Stewart

In his role with the late Robert Theobald's work in Australia, Alan also wrote, in Reworking Tomorrow - The Slim Book (1998), which is at the Reworking Tomorrow site:

'Conversation as the Energiser of New Ways of Being and New Ways of Doing.' Alan Stewart

And, on Tom Atlee's Co-Intelligence Institute site, the following article:

  Is "debate" or "conversation" the most useful form of public discourse? Alan Stewart