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Connecting Open Dialogue across borders

Connect, learn, and collaborate with practitioners, trainers, and communities transforming mental health care through dialogue — 12 countries, 3 languages, and counting.

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We are a diverse network of people committed to transforming mental health care through dialogue, collaboration, and shared understanding.

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Open Dialogue has changed the way I connect with people in crisis. It's not just a method, it's a way of being together.

— Practitioner, Italy

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Find peers across borders, discover centers working dialogically, and share what you're learning in your practice — whether you're just starting out or have years of experience.

Trainers & Facilitators

Stay connected with conferences, workshops, and training programs worldwide. Share resources and learn from others shaping how Open Dialogue is taught and practiced.

People with Lived Experience

Join open, respectful conversations about mental health care. Your voice and experience matter here — as a family member, a person who has been through crisis, or someone who cares.

Rooted in dialogue

Open Dialogue began in Western Lapland in the 1980s as a way of responding to mental health crises — not with immediate answers, but with open conversations that include everyone involved. Today it's practiced and adapted in communities around the world, in hospitals, homes, and online spaces. The principles stay the same: listen first, respond together, tolerate uncertainty.

DialogoAperto exists to help these communities find each other.

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CHARM (Community for Holistic. Accessible, Rights based Mental health)

CHARM consists of a group of people who want to improve mental health services in Manchester. Manchester is a city in the north-west of England with a population of just under three million. In September 2020 when a Hospital was earmarked for re-development as a single site psychiatric unit a group of people opposed this proposal. They believed it would not meet the needs of the people of Manchester in crisis.

The intention was to start something where everyone could have a say in what was needed. The whole community had to be consulted. This was done in the spirit of collaboration and concerns were later raised with the Mayor of Manchester.

Many of the needs and concerns had been expressed previously in the 1980’s but not much had changed. CHARM intend to make a difference framing their concerns very much within the context of community life.

By Andy
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The dialogue room

This looks like a very promising initiative.

I hope it will expand across different contexts, times, and languages.

They’ve put together an excellent website—so rather than take my word for it, click through and explore it yourself.

We’re looking forward to hearing more from Mark, especially about the results so far and the potential for wider adoption in other languages.

By Lupo
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Disseminate3

I wait with the confidence that, over time, knowledge and interest will develop — a confidence that can bring encouragement to all of us.
By Admin
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The dialogue room

This looks like a very promising initiative.

I hope it will expand across different contexts, times, and languages.

They’ve put together an excellent website—so rather than take my word for it, click through and explore it yourself.

We’re looking forward to hearing more from Mark, especially about the results so far and the potential for wider adoption in other languages.

By Lupo
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CHARM (Community for Holistic. Accessible, Rights based Mental health)

CHARM consists of a group of people who want to improve mental health services in Manchester. Manchester is a city in the north-west of England with a population of just under three million. In September 2020 when a Hospital was earmarked for re-development as a single site psychiatric unit a group of people opposed this proposal. They believed it would not meet the needs of the people of Manchester in crisis.

The intention was to start something where everyone could have a say in what was needed. The whole community had to be consulted. This was done in the spirit of collaboration and concerns were later raised with the Mayor of Manchester.

Many of the needs and concerns had been expressed previously in the 1980’s but not much had changed. CHARM intend to make a difference framing their concerns very much within the context of community life.

By Andy
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12 MAY 2026

OD-GenIssues Monthly meeting 5

🌐 Online

This is the 5th monthly meeting of the group General Issues.
Title is "Connection" and agenda is open.
We use Zoom subtitles to cope with languages differences.

Everybody is welcome. 
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