The Taos Institute ® is a community of scholars and practitioners concerned with the social processes essential for the construction of reason, knowledge, and human value. We are a non-profit (501c3) organization committed to exploring, developing and disseminating ideas and practices that promote creative, appreciative and collaborative processes in families, communities and organizations around the world.  

Social constructionist theory and practice locates the source of meaning, value and action in the relational connection among people. It is through our social and relational processes that we construct the world. 

We achieve our educational ends through conferences, workshops, publications, a PhD program, certificate programs, distance learning programs, newsletters, and web-based offerings. We work at the interface between the scholarly community and societal practitioners from communities of mental health, social work, counseling, organizational change, education, community building, gerontology, healthcare and more.

We develop and explore the ways in which scholarly research can enrich professional practices, and practices can stimulate scholarly inquiry.

The institute was founded in 1993 and now, 25 years later, we continue to grow and develop the theory, practices and understanding of social construction.

June 27-29, 2019
Location: Brno, Czech Republic

Conversations with and between practitioners in education, research, health, social sciences, psychotherapy, organizations and other topics of interest that may emerge in the conference. See the information at: www.collaborative-dialogic-practices.net/congress2019