Senge Fifth Discipline - Learning Organization TL.1: Practise dialogue: suspend assumptions, act as colleagues, hold the context

What does TL.1 require?

The basic unit that learns in an organization is the team rather than the individual, and team learning is aligning and developing a team's capacity to create what its members truly desire. It rests on dialogue, the free flow of meaning through a group that lets it think together and see the incoherence in its thought, under three conditions: all participants suspend their assumptions (holding them up for examination rather than defending them), all regard one another as colleagues (surrendering privileges of rank for the session) and a facilitator holds the context until the team can do so itself.