The dialogue seminar method was developed to facilitate experience transfer in Combitech Systems, a specialised and knowledge-intensive Swedish enterprise. As a whole the dialogue seminar method, which includes reading, writing and advanced forms of dialogue, may be regarded as a framework for the process of reflection. Each part of the method is based on analogical thinking. Analogical thinking involves reflection on the similarities and differences between various objects. It is a dominant activity in judgement and action – whether the judgement or action be expressed in academic research, in industrial development projects or in traditional “practical ”occupations. Further, analogical thinking is important in all problem solving, in the arts and in those stages of research work that include inventiveness and imagination. For several years the dialogue seminar method has been applied in graduate education at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, and may soon become an essential part of a range of educational programmes in the network of our partners. The dialogue seminar method has already proved to be a powerful tool in the further education of music teachers at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. We aim to explore the potential of the dialogue seminar method in giving systematic support to analogical thinking. Research on skills and technology has shown that the arts may be seen as a source of powerful, paradigmatic examples of practical knowledge. For that reason, work continues, together with the Collegium Musicum department of the Royal Collegeof Music in Stockholm