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# Developing Open Dialogue

“For the word (and consequently for the human being)  there is nothing more terrible than a lack of response” - Mikhail Bakhtin

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- [Home](https://developingopendialogue.com/) - DEVELOPING OPEN DIALOGUE (DoD) has been created from a passion to find different ways of understanding mental health difficulties. Open Dialogue is a social network approach to mental health difficulties, involving family members, friends and others who are concerned. It was developed in Tornio, Western Lapland, Finland by Jaakko Seikkula and colleagues in the early 1980’s.
- [Contact Us](https://developingopendialogue.com/contact-us/)
- [UK Training](https://developingopendialogue.com/the-uk/) - Below are details of two Open Dialogue courses in the UK. North East London Foundation Trust (NELFT) in collaboration with London South Bank University (LSBU) run a one year postgraduate certificate course in Peer-supported Open Dialogue, Systemic Practice and Relationship Skills (POD). Mark Hopfenbeck has written about the training Click here to view The course has
- [Peer-supported OD Course reading](https://developingopendialogue.com/additional-reading/) - ESSENTIAL PRE-COURSE READING MATERIAL Reading order… Family Interventions in Psychosis British Psychological Society (BPS) June 2021 Hedges F. (2005) Ch 1 & 3 An Introduction in An Introduction to Systemic Therapy with Individuals Palgrave, Macmillan hedges-2005 Hedges Emotion and self .ch. 3 2005 Seikkula, J.(2011) Becoming Dialogical: Psychotherapy or a Way of Life? The
- [Campaigning for Open Dialogue](https://developingopendialogue.com/campaigning-for-open-dialogue/) - Open Dialogue Champions campaign for change The Champions are currently collaborating with Queen Mary University of London and have created a promotional film about Peer-supported Open Dialogue with the support of Dr Russell Razzaque and the film maker and author Emma Goude of Green films. Dr Maria Turri and students from the Creative Arts
- [Resources](https://developingopendialogue.com/resources/) - Basic principles of Finnish Open Dialogue. Click here to view The Key Elements of Dialogic Practice in Open Dialogue’ . Mary Olson , Jaakko Seikkula and Doug Ziedonis. keyelementsv1-109022014-2 Open Dialogue Approach: Treatment Principles and Preliminary Results of a Two- year Follow-up on First Episode Schizophrenia Ethical and Human Sciences and Services, 2003, 5(3), 163-182. Click
- [Open Dialogue Finland](https://developingopendialogue.com/open-dialogue-finland/) - “Open Dialogue” is an innovative approach to acute psychiatric crises developed by Jaakko Seikkula, Markku Sutela, and their multidisciplinary team at Keropudas Hospital in Tornio, Finland. The principles and values of Open Dialogue are simple. People are met in crisis within 24 hours of contact and daily until the crisis is resolved. Hospitalisation is avoided