What happens when you get His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, together with an Austrian Benedictine Monk, David Steindl-Rast to look at the same question of compassion and gratefulness from their different perspectives and paths they have walked in life?  We are able to see the whole picture, that has for so long been hidden to the wider public.  This holistic understanding of critical global issues of our time, brings about an awareness of our collective consciousness and enables more and more people to find solutions through the language of the heart.

            Waldzell has created a space in which the speakers have been able to tell the `real` story about themselves, instead of just their personal persona.  This persona that is extolled by publicity, tells a different story, that of success at all costs, whereas Waldzell provides a space for the speakers to tell their story that is behind the headlines.  This is not only through their profound achievements, but also their personal spiritual journey that has guided them to have revelations along their path of success, that supported them in living more closely to their values and their inner moral code.  This in turn has led the speakers and participants of Waldzell to feel encouraged to continue living their lives in a more ethically sound way.

            By bringing together many different disciplines in one place Waldzell connects everyone through the heart and we can explore concepts of nationality, politics, religion, culture on an emotive level. On the micro level, in small groups and intimate settings, through dialogue reconciliation and understanding can be reached.  The secret lies in breaking loose from the constraints that tie us, of talks choreographed entirely by boundary images, where negotiators are locked in as spokespersons and representatives of preset counterposed categories.

        Through the interdisciplinary Waldzell dialogue, we have been able to access broader parts of everyones humanity and activate a range of other images and identities especially by facilitating some individual bonding across that boundary. The consequence is a deep restructuring on an emotive level, one that previously has been dominated by boundary and fact.