Season 5

A collection of 13 posts

Celebrating the Voice of Professor Mary Gergen

Professor Mary Gergen, passed away on the morning of September 22, 2020. Mary was a lively, courageous, and innovative trail blazer of the Taos Institute. I celebrate her life with these lovely words in this 1 minute recording. Mary is quoting herself in her joyful, fun way. These words are t...

14 Feb 2022 1 min read

conversation

What Can Social Constructionist Practice Offer in Times of Uncertainty?

The professionals, researchers and authors in this podcast season have shared their specific social constructionist practice in a pre COVID world. In this episode, five of us reflect how social constructionism as an orientation is relevant and meaningful at all times, in all places and communitie...

14 Feb 2022 7 min read

Season 5

Social Innovation Practices Through the Lens of Social Construction - Sheila McNamee, Ph.D. and Celiane Carmago-Borges, Ph.D.

This is the introductory episode of season 5 which focuses on social innovations across many domains. We are collaborating with the Taos Institute and supporting a significant publication, The Sage Handbook of Social Constructionist Practice. My guests in this introductory episode are two of the ...

14 Feb 2022 7 min read

Season 5

Save The Date: Launching A Season Worth Waiting For

Save the Date for Season 5. It’s a collaboration with the Taos Institute. Our inquiry: What are the innovations that Social Construction is bringing to our world? If you are new to social constructionist ideas and curious, this season will give you a lovely introduction. You will be explod...

14 Feb 2022 2 min read

community

Community Building Practices that Attend to Difference - Janet Newbury, Ph.D.

How do we participate in community building practices in ways that attend to difference? Ways that are genuinely committed to consider power relations and how they play out when working amidst differences? Attending to such interactions opens us to surprises, and adjusts our ideas and practices....

14 Feb 2022 7 min read

conversation

Social Therapeutics as Play, Performance and Becoming - Lois Holzman, Ph.D.

Social therapeutics as a playful, performatory, philosophical methodology for person and community development is the topic explored in this episode. Influenced by three intellectual traditions, it seeks to bring meaning to our relational processes in collaborative and appreciative ways to eleva...

14 Feb 2022 4 min read

narrative mediation

How Narrative Mediation Promotes Respectful Relationships - John Winslade, Ph.D.

Helping people move further away from what produces conflict and closer to the relationships they prefer is what narrative mediation seeks to produce. Conflict resolution through the lens of social construction, and framed as narrative mediation, offers that conflict between individuals is usua...

14 Feb 2022 5 min read

Season 5

What is Transmaterial Worlding and Why Pay Attention? - Gail Simon, Ph.D. and Leah Salter, Ph.D.

Transmaterial worlding provokes us to pay attention. Once we start to realize that we are merely co-inhabitors of this world, we awaken to the notion we are making it or breaking it with each breath we take, each word we utter, and each action we take. The human species as all powerful and in con...

14 Feb 2022 7 min read

social construction

Approaching Educational Evaluation from a Relational Perspective - Scherto Gill, Ph.D.

Educational evaluation that comes from a relational perspective truly speaks to the demands of a rapidly changing world. Embracing collaborative learning, dialogic pedagogy, and flexible curricula can enhance learning processes, students’ engagement and vitality of relationships in classrooms, ...

14 Feb 2022 4 min read

innovation

Positive Aging through the Lens of Social Construction - Mary Gergen, Ph.D.

Research into positive aging delivers findings that run counter to the traditional view of aging. Existing views tend to be negative and like to point out that the life span developmental curve is not wonderful for older people. Positive aging research and practice puts attention on the value of...

14 Feb 2022 6 min read

appreciative inquiry

Transformative Community Conferencing – A Constructionist Approach to a More Hopeful Future - David Hooker, Ph.D.

Transformative community conferencing is an approach to community building or reconciliation. As a narrative practice, it embodies a more reflective orientation to relationships and to systems change. How and when we ask questions helps us think differently. It helps to begin to ask questions ...

14 Feb 2022 7 min read

social constructionist

Creating School Harmony with Social Constructionist Practices - Gro Lund, Ph.D.

Schooling is at a crossroads. The need for more relational ways of being in schools has been apparent for decades. Creating school harmony with social constructionist practices is one of the pathways to co-create a future for our children.

14 Feb 2022 5 min read

addiction

Recovering from Addiction by Mobilizing Relational Processes - Pavel Nepustil, Ph.D.

Relational processes are key to recovering from addiction. Addiction's development, sustainability and finally its ending are embedded in family, community and broader societal contexts. In order to recover an addict needs to establish new bonds based on trust respect and love; and together with ...

14 Feb 2022 6 min read

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