深度匯談不是…… What dialogue is not
深度匯談不是討論，在英文中，discussion和percussion（敲打）、concussion（震動）系出同源，都包含著「把事物分開」的意思。深度匯談也不是辯論。這些形式的談話隱藏著導向一個目標、得出一致的意見、試著解決問題或是使某個人的意見取得優勢。深度匯談也不是以提供娛樂、交流友情、傳聞和其他資訊為目的的「社交聚會」（salon）。雖然dialogue在英文中已經常被使用在這些地方，但追本溯源之後會發現，它主要並不是要關注於上述這些目的。
Dialogue is not discussion, a word that shares its root meaning with "percussion" and "concussion," both of which involve breaking things up. Nor is it debate. These forms of conversation contain an implicit tendency to point toward a goal, to hammer out an agreement, to try to solve a problem or have one's opinion prevail. It is also not a "salon", which is a kind of gathering that is both informal and most often characterized by an intention to entertain, exchange friendship, gossip and other information. Although the word "dialogue" has often been used in similar ways, its deeper, root meaning implies that it is not primarily interested in any of this.
「對話」(dialogue)對訓練團體（T-groups）或敏感性訓練（sensitivity training）而言並非新名詞，縱使深度匯談與這些及其它相關的對話形式表面上很相似。它也許有心理治療的結果，但它沒有企圖把焦點放在消除參與者情緒上的障礙，也不是要去教導、訓練或分析，不過深度匯談仍是一個時常發生學習和化解障礙的園地。儘管問題可能在深度匯談參與者之間增進了理解和建立了夥伴關係之後，在過程中或結束後圓滿的被解決。但它不是用來解決問題、調解衝突的技巧。如同我們強調的，深度匯談主要是用來探索觀念的活動。
Dialogue is not a new name for T-groups or sensitivity training, although it is superficially similar to these and other related forms of group work. Its consequences may be psychotherapeutic but it does not attempt to focus on removing the emotional blocks of any one participant nor to teach, train or analyze. Nevertheless, it is an arena in which learning and the dissolution of blocks can and often do take place. It is not a technique for problem solving or conflict resolution, although problems may well be resolved during the course of a Dialogue, or perhaps later, as a result of increased understanding and fellowship that occurs among the participants. It is, as we have emphasized, primarily a means of exploring the field of thought.
深度匯談類似於一些其他形式的團體活動，而且有時表面上看起來相同，但事實上深度匯談對我們的文化而言是新的東西。我們相信它對未來文明的健全是極其重要的活動。
Dialogue resembles a number of other forms of group activity and may at times include aspects of them but in fact it is something new to our culture. We believe that it is an activity that might well prove vital to the future health of our civilization.
地圖定位點：1955年，Bohm搬到以色列，在海法的以色列技術學院待了兩年。他在那裡和他的太太Saral相遇。
