"What would it feel like to be listening to each other again about our yearnings, our fears, our prayers, our children? I believe we can change the world if we start talking to one another again. Simple, honest, human conversation. Not mediation, negotiation, problem-solving, debate, or public meetings. Simple, truthful conversation where we each have a chance to speak, we each feel heard, and we each listen well. This is how great changes begin, when people begin talking to each other about their experiences, hopes, and fears."
With this simple declaration, Margaret Wheatley proposes that citizens band together with their colleagues and friends to create the solutions for social change, both locally and globally, that are so badly needed. Such change will not come from governments or corporations but from the ageless process of thinking together in conversation. Turning to One Another encourages this process. After exploring the power of conversation and the conditions - simplicity, personal courage, real listening, and diversity - that support it, Wheatley then provides ten "conversation starters" - questions that in her experience have led people to share their deepest beliefs, fears, and hopes.
