The paper, by Les Robinson (a community change consultant) on his Enabling Change website, was originally developed for the Australian Conservation Foundation (don't try to find an Australian Conversation Foundation, there isn't one). It is about the art of hosting action conversations: "When it comes to changing our lives or changing the world, it all begins with a conversation. Alone, we humans often feel weak, disempowered and easily stumped by obstacles. But together we are capable of extraordinary results …"

There are a couple of quotes preceding his paper I find memorable:

“Any person, any couple, any community has the answer to their

problem within their own system.”

- Milton Erikson

“Humans have already changed the world several times by the

way they had conversations. There have been conversational

revolutions which have been as important as wars or riots or

famines. When problems have appeared insoluble, when life has

seemed to be meaningless, when governments have been

powerless, people have sometimes found a way out by changing

the subject of their conversation, or the way they talked, or the

persons they talked to.” 

- Theordore Zeldin, Conversation