Dialogue with the Authors: Harlene Anderson & Diane Gehart

Описание: This group conversation with the authors was recorded in October 2022 as part of the Taos Institute's Dialogue with the Authors free webinar series. More details at www.taosinstitute.net/dialogue-with-the-authors.

Collaborative-Dialogic Practice: Relationships and Conversations that Make a Difference Across Contexts and Cultures, edited by Harlene Anderson and Diane Gehart

Have you ever wondered how to successfully communicate with someone who sees the world from an entirely different angle than you do? Often the chasm seems impossible to navigate, even with the best of intentions. Whether you work in a boardroom, schoolroom, therapy room, or community organization, Collaborative-Dialogic Practice offers a humanizing approach to facilitating dialogues that make a difference in our fast-changing, diverse, and ever-shrinking world. These practices encourage relationships and conversations that create a generative space and promote meaningful transformations, even in the most difficult situations. This approach involves an epistemological and mindset shift in how we think about ourselves, the people we meet, what we do together, and how we do it. Grounded in social constructionism, the main feature of the practice, the philosophical stance, guides the professional in particular ways of being, talking, thinking, and acting with others. Rather than assuming an expert position of authoritative knowledge, collaborative practitioners use curiosity, not-knowing, and uncertainty to engage others in meaningful dialogue that generates new understandings, informing future possibilities that were previously unimagined by either person alone.

About the Editors:

Harlene Anderson, Ph.D. is cofounder and board member of the Houston Galveston Institute, Houston, Texas and The Taos Institute, Chagrin Falls, Ohio. She is the author of Conversation, Language, and Possibilities: A Postmodern Approach to Therapy and co-editor of several books as well as numerous journal articles and book chapters on postmodern collaborative-dialogic approach to practices across disciplines, contexts, and cultures. Harlene is recognized internationally as at the leading edge of the development and linkage of a postmodern philosophy and collaborative practices in therapy, supervision, training, and business/organization consultation. She lives in Houston, Texas with her husband H. David Shine.

Diane R. Gehart, Ph.D. is Professor in the Marriage and Family Therapy Program at California State University, Northridge, and Founder of the Institute of Therapy that Works. She has authored numerous books including Mastering Competencies in Family Therapy, Mindfulness and Acceptance in Couple and Family Therapy, Theory and Treatment Planning in Counseling and Psychotherapy and one book for popular audiences, Mindfulness for Chocolate Lovers: A Lighthearted Way to Stress Less and Savor More Each Day. Learn more about her work at www.dianegehart.com or follow her on YouTube.