Field Site Observation

“A discipline that starts with dialogue, the capacity of members of a team to suspend assumptions and enter into a genuine thinking together… (Larsen, McInerney, Nyquist, Santos, & Silsbee, n.d.).
Since the start of my field site rotation, I have been doing my field site experience with the United States Army Public Health Clinic here on the island of Oahu. As I have noted before, this clinic is unique in that the population that it serves are military service members and military retirees, their families, and the Department of the Army civilian employees. Two-way communication is evident in this organization, and thus should be in all organizations for success to be accomplished. And whether the ultimate goal has been met or not, a lot can still be learned from it throughout the whole entire process. …show more content…
Team learning actually starts with dialogue. However, even with dialogue, there are three conditions that would be necessary for it to occur. As cited by Larsen, McInerney, Nyquist, Santos, & Silsbee (n.d.), these conditions identified by David Bohm, a physicist, are as follows: all involved must withhold any assumptions they may have; all involved must respect each other as colleagues; and a facilitator should be identified, in which their job would be to keep the framework of the dialogue grounded until all involved has developed the other two conditions. Learning is a skill that can be learned with practice gained through dialogue sessions. A dialogue that is strategic is built on an operating principle, in which stakeholders would already have the creative means to deal with challenging situations should they arise, as well as anyone else