Our ((Global Dialogue Institute)) convened a high level Dialogue Event at “La Casa” Retreat Center in California in 1999 and brought together a range of accomplished change agents seeking to address diverse crises facing humanity today. In this opening session I seek to sound the ((keynote)) of the ((Power of Deep Dialogue)) as potent medicine for getting to the heart of wide ranging human dysfunctions that afflict cultures that are lodged in /monologue/ and /egomental/ patterns at the personal, inter-personal and cultural levels.