Reading the book Why Dialogue C ures? Explaining What Makes Dialogue Unprecedentedly Effective in Difficult Crises (Springer, 2025) was, for me, a deeply satisfying experience. For more than fifteen years I have had the opportunity to meet the author of this book in different contexts. He is one of the most important teachers I have had in my life, and I do not mean only in psychology or family therapy. His ideas, experience, and way of being have inspired much of what I do.

The following work was written in Spanish and translated into English, both processes carried out over a long period during 2023 and 2024. A third installment will soon follow, bringing this three-part publication to a close. I thank Pavel Nepustil for the invitation and Pablo Gómez for the shared translation. El siguiente trabajo fue escrito en español y traducido al inglés, ambos en un proceso artesanal largo, durante 2023 y 2024. Prontamente habrá una tercera entrega y con

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