As he made his way from table to table — from cops to middle-class families, graduate students, the unemployed and single moms — he fell into a dozen intense and divergent conversations.
There was also a parade of witnesses who described wildly divergent conversations with Stoeckley about the murders.
He has placed an emphasis on closing the gap between the divergent conversations of the what (strategy) and the how (action plan).
This wasn't the avowed focus of the WWW conference, which had the title "intellectual jazz". It felt instead like a highbrow talk-show program, in which Wurman participated in a series of divergent conversations, each roughly 40 minutes in length, among two or more people, all of whom represented some the most important contributors to their fields.
Remove the feeling of fear of speaking up by creating a safe space for people to have divergent thinking conversations with each other.
They draw together divergent threads of conversations and ideas and possibilities, and then weave those into a coherent whole, leading multiple conversations from multiple points of view.
This intensive two-day course will cover: historical and contemporary cases of displacement and migration and how to create space in classrooms for difficult conversations and divergent opinions.
Our hope for this speaker series is to highlight dynamic conversations across divergent views in a way that will both expand minds and model the notion that people can discuss different viewpoints with intellect, passion, and humanity.
As such, it is important for instructors to cultivate discussion of divergent ideas in classroom conversations about biology some of which may not be supported by current scientific evidence as part of the process of moving students toward thinking in more scientifically accurate ways.
As exploratory research, with a focus on views and experiences, we used an open-ended interview style, loosely guided by some specific areas of interest, allowing for free-flowing conversation and examination of divergent themes [ 25].
