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HONORARY
ASSOCIATES OF THE TAOS INSTITUTE
The
Taos Institute is pleased to present the following
colleagues as Honorary Associates. The
position of Honorary Associate is awarded to those
persons whose contributions have been unusually
stimulating and inspiring. Theses individuals
have been of exceptional importance in their
contribution to the dialogues, practices and ideals of
the Taos Institute. To these
awardees we extend our deepest gratitude and esteem.
»»Tom
Andersen ,
Ph.D., Norway
Tom Andersen was Professor of Social
Psychiatry at the Institute of Community Medicine,
University of Tromso, Norway, and was the initiator of Reflective Processes in therapeutic practices. He is the author of The Reflecting Team: Dialogues and Dialogues about Dialogues, 1991, and Death Talk: Conversations with Children and Families, 1997.
Tom died in the spring of 2007. He will be missed.
 »»Warren Bennis, Ph.D.
University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0808
phone: 213-740-0766 or 0767
fax: 213- 740- 9725
email: wbennis@earthlink.net
Website: http://www.usc.edu/programs/cet/faculty_fellows/bennis.html
Warren Bennis is University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration at the University of Southern California and the founding chairman of USC's Leadership Institute. He has written 18 books including : On Becoming a Leader (which was translated into 19 languages), Why Leaders Can't Lead, and The Unreality Industry , co-authored with Ian Mitroff.
Bennis was successor to Douglas McGregor as chairman of the organization studies department at M.I.T. He also taught at Harvard and Boston Universities. Later, he was Provost and Executive Vice President of the State University of New York-Buffalo and President of the University of Cincinnati.
He has published over 900 articles and two of his books have earned the coveted McKinsey Award for the Best Book on Management. He has served in an advisory capacity to the past four U.S. presidents (for better or worse) and consulted to many corporations and agencies and to the United Nations.
Awarded 11 honorary degrees, Bennis has also received numerous awards including the Distinguished Service Award of the American Board of Professional Psychologists and the Perry L. Rohrer Consulting Practice Award of the American Psychological Association.
»» Jerome Bruner (b. Oct. 1, 1915 in New York) is a noted psychologist and educator. In describing his interests, he says, "I'm interested in the various institutional forms by which culture is passed on ... My preferred method of work . . . is the anthropological-interpretive." As Professor of psychology at Harvard (1952-72) and then as Watts Professor at Oxford (1972-80) and now at the New School for Social Research in New York City, he has been at the forefront of what is often called the Cognitive Revolution [taking off in the 1960s] - which today dominates psychology around the world. His numerous publications include Actual Minds, Possible Worlds (), Acts of Meaning (1987), and The Process of Education (2004). More information:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome_Bruner
http://web.lemoyne.edu/~hevern/nr-theorists/bruner_jerome_s.html
 »»Lynn Hoffman, ACSW
116 Pleasant Street, Apt. 30
Easthampton, MA 01027
PH: 413.529.2101
email: lhoffman2101@charter.net
Lynn Hoffman is one of the leading thinkers and practitioners in the field of family therapy and systems theory. She received the AAMFT Lifetime Achievement Award for Distinguished Contribution. Lynn has presented at hundreds of conferences, workshops, panels, in the U.S. and abroad, over the past 40 years. She is the author of ëTechniques of Family Therapy' (with Jay Haley) 1969; ëFoundations of Family Therapy', 1981; ëMilan Systemic Family Therapy' (with Luigi Boscolo, Gianfranco Cecchin, and Peggy Penn) 1987; ëExchanging Voices', 1993; and ëFamily Therapy: An Intimate History', 2002. Lynn has taught at the Hunter School of Social Work and the Ackerman Institute for the Family in New York, and at Smith College School of Social Work in Northampton, Massachusetts. She is currently an adjunct lecturer at the Marriage and Family Program at St. Joseph's College in West Hartford, Connecticut. In 1984 she was given a Distinguished Professional Contribution to the Field of Family Therapy award by AAMFT; in 1995, she was recognized by the MAMFT for her Distinguished Contribution to the Field of Family Therapy.
 »» Peggy Penn, MSW
The Ackerman Institute of Family Therapy
149 East 78th St.
NY, NY 10021
phone: (212) 879-4900 X132
email: peggypenn@mindsprings.com
Peggy Penn, M.S.W., is a Supervising Faculty Member of the Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy. Currently, she is researching the effects of combining writing with therapeutic conversations.
From 1986 to 1992, Ms. Penn was Ackerman's Director of Clinical Training. In addition to writing and conversation in therapy, her research and study groups have focused on chronic illness, gender issues in family therapy, and violence in the family. Her workshops on these and other issues have been enthusiastically received throughout the U.S. and Europe.
Ms. Penn is the author of extensive publications. Among them are: "Creating a Participant Text: Multiple Voices, Narrative Multiplicity and Writing," (with Marilyn Frankfurt, Family Process, 1994), and "Letter Writing in Family Systems" (The Family Therapy Networker, 1991) "Rape Flashbacks" (Family Process, 1985) and "Chronic Illness: Writing Voices and Trauma" (Family Process, 2001) .
In 1988, she was honored by the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy for her distinguished contribution to the field of family therapy. Among her other affiliations, Ms. Penn is a Board Member of the Poetry Society of America, and and a founding member of the Board, New Yorkers for Children.
 »»Theodore Roy (Ted) Sarbin was professor emeritus of psychology and criminology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Formerly he taught at the University of California at Berkeley in 1949 as a lecturer in clinical psychology. Sarbin is well known for his essay on narrative as a root metaphor (Sarbin, 1986). After retiring from UC Santa Cruz faculty, Sarbin continued to publish extensively as well as to teach, primarily at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA. Sarbin was legendary for his dedication to his many former graduate students and colleagues with whom he continued to write and carry out research and other projects at a steady pace until his death in 2005. He received the Henry A. Murray Award in 1994 from the Society for Personality and Social Psychology. In 1999 he was the recipient of the Award for Distinguished Theoretical and Philosophical Contributions to Psychology by Division 24 of the American Psychological Association. In August 2005, that same division instituted an annual award in his name. Theodore R. Sarbin died at his home August 31, 2005.
For more information: http://web.lemoyne.edu/~hevern/nr-theorists/sarbin_theodore_r.obit.html
 »» John Shotter, Ph.D.
KCC Foundation
2 Wyvil Court
Trenchold Street
London, SW8 2TG
Home address: 90 Moncrieff Street, Peckham, London, SE15 5HL, England
email: jds@hypatia.unh.edu
website: http://pubpages.unh.edu/~jds/
phone: +44(0) 207 639 0303, mobile: +44(0) 7876 013157
John Shotter is now an Emeritus Professor of Communication in the Department of Communication, University of New Hampshire, and has begun to work as a consultant with KCC International (Kensington Consultation Center). His long term interest is in the social conditions conducive to people having a voice in the development of participatory democracies and civil societies. He is the author of Images of Man in Psychological Research (Methuen, 1975), Human Action and its Psychological Investigation (with Alan Gauld, Routledge, 1977), Social Accountability and Selfhood (Blackwell, 1984), Cultural Politics of Everyday Life: Social Constructionism, Rhetoric, and Knowing of the Third Kind (CP) (Open University Press and Toronto University Press, 1993), and Conversational Realities: the Construction of Life through Language (CR) (Sage, 1993). In 1997 he was an Overseas Fellow at Churchill College, Cambridge and a Visiting Professor at The Swedish Institute of Work Life Research, Stockholm, Sweden (see linked booklet written with Bjorn Gustavsen in 1999). He is a member of the Virtual Faculty where a number of writings since CP and CR are posted. See information also on the Discursive Therapy, Postgraduate Diploma being offered at Massey University, NZ, and the references there to relevant work in some of the course materials. He is also a member of the LDI Core Community (the Learning Development Organization) - see also papers posted on that site.
He has begun to look beyond current versions of Social Constructionism, toward the surrounding circumstances making such a movement possible. Indeed, many versions of Social Constructionism still seem to be deeply 'infected' with the Cartesianism that in fact they aim to overcome. They have not yet moved on from a world of dead, mechanically structured activities to a world of living, embodied beings, spontaneously responsive to each other. The move first to a focus on joint action, then to dialogically-structured or 'chiasmically organized' (see Merleau-Ponty, 1968) activities, is a central part of my interest in participatory modes of life and inquiry. In his "Social Accountability..." book, he called the approach a social ecological one, and it is to this approach that he has returned.
»» Michael White Dulwich Centre
345 Carrington Street
Adelaide SA 5000
Michael White is interested in the ways people construct meaning in their lives. In developing the notion that people's lives are organized by their life narratives, White came to believe that stories don't mirror life, they shape it. That's why people have the interesting habit of becoming the stories they tell about their experience. White's innovative thinking helped shape the basic tenets of narrative therapy, which considers the broader historical, cultural and political framework of the family. Currently, White lives in Adelaide, South Australia. Together with his wife, Cheryl, White works at the Dulwich Centre, a training and clinical facility that also publishes the Dulwich Newsletter, which White uses to explore his ideas with the field.
For information on Michael White's theory and practice of Narrative Therapy click here:
http://www.massey.ac.nz/~alock/virtual/white.htm
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