Part I: Dialogue and skill -- The practice of the use of computers : a paradoxical encounter between different traditions of knowledge / Bo Goranzon -- Writing as a method of reflection / Maria Hammaren -- The dialogue seminar as a foundation for research on skill / Adrian Ratkic -- The methodology of the dialogue seminar / Bo Goranzon and Maria Hammaren -- Part II: Theatre and work -- A dwelling place for past and living voices, passions and characters / Erland Josephson -- Theatre and knowledge / Allan Janik -- Part III: Case studies -- Dialogue seminar as a tool : experiences from combitech systems / Niclas Fock -- Maximum complexity / Christer Hoberg -- Better systems engineering with dialogue / Goran Backlund and Jan Sjunnesson -- Some aspects of military practices and officers' professional skills / Peter Tillberg -- Science and art / Karl Dunar, Lukas Ekeroth and Mats Hanson -- Part IV: Dialogue seminar as reflective practice -- Tacit knowledge and risks / Bo Goranzon -- Skill, story telling and language / Maria Hammaren -- Reading and writing as performing arts : at work / Oyvind Palshaugen -- Knowledge and reflective practice / Kjell S. Johannessen -- Dialogue, depth and life inside responsive orders / John Shotter -- Part V: Tacit knowledge and literature -- Rule following, intransitive understanding and tacit knowledge / Kjell S. Johannessen -- Henrik Ibsen : why we need Him more than ever / Allan Janik -- Part VI: Conclusions -- Theatre and workplace actors / Richard Ennals -- The dialogue seminar method : training in analogical thinking / Bo Goranzon, Maria Hammaren and Adrian Ratkic.