Dialogue with the Authors

Each month, we offer an opportunity for you to join authors of new and significant books for a brief presentation followed by rich dialogue (events are free and open to all).

Visit our Upcoming Dialogue page for details on the next event.

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Recordings of past Dialogues with the Authors are available on our YouTube channel as well as in the Past Events list below.

Note: book links are included below for informational purposes only. We recommend purchasing books through your local bookstore whenever possible.

Past Events:

• The book: Practicing Therapy as Social Construction
  Authors: Sheila McNamee, Emerson Rasera, and Pedro Martins
  March 7, 2023 – Recording

• The book: Fairy Tales Wisdom
  Authors: Bill Randall, Andy Achenbaum (absent: Barbara Lewis)
  February 21, 2023 – Recording
  
• The book: Finding Lenny
  Author: Stanley L. Witkin
  January 20, 2023 – Recording
  
• The book: Grief ~ Growth ~ Grace – A Sacred Pilgrimage
  Author: Neena Verma
  November 22, 2022 – Recording
  
• The book: Collaborative-Dialogic Practice: Relationships and Conversations that Make a Difference Across Contexts and Cultures
  Editors: Harlene Anderson & Diane Gehart
  October 18, 2022 – Recording
  
• The book: Practicing Psychotherapy in Constructed Reality: Ritual, Charisma and Enhanced Client Outcomes
  Author: Stephen Bacon
  July 20, 2022 – Recording
  
• The book: Redesigning Conversations: A Guide to Communicating Effectively in the Family, Workplace, and Society
  Author: Bill Ash
  June 15, 2022 – Recording
  
• The book: Relational Ethics in Organizations
  Authors: Gitte Haslebo and Maja Loua Haslebo
  May 18, 2022 – Recording
  
• The book: When Tears Sing: The Art of Lament in Christian Community
  Author: Bill Blaine-Wallace, Ph.D.
  April 20, 2022 – Recording
  
• The book: Feminism in Practice: Communication Strategies for Making Change
  Authors: Karen A. Foss and Sonja K. Foss (co-author Alena Amato Ruggerio unable to attend)
  March 9, 2022 – Recording
  
• El Libro: Cuando Hablamos. Hacia una nueva comprensión ‘fluida’ del sentido común de los devenires relacionales
  Traducido al español por Carlos Felipe Villar-Guhl
  25 de febrero, 2022 – Video
  
• The book: Coaching A-Z: The Extraordinary Use of Ordinary Words
  Author: Haesun Moon, Ph.D.
  February 16, 2022 – Recording
  
• The book: The Relational Imperative: Resources for a World on Edge
  Author: Kenneth J. Gergen, Ph.D
  January 19, 2022 – Recording
  
• The book: Bereavement Support Groups: Breathing Life Into Stories of the Dead
  Author: Lorraine Hedtke, MSW, ACSW, Ph.D.
  November 10, 2021 – Recording
  
• The book: American Dementia: Brain Health in an Unhealthy Society
  Authors: Daniel R. George and Peter J. Whitehouse
  October 13, 2021 – Recording
  
• The book: The Sage Handbook of Social Constructionist Practice
  Editor: Marie Hoskins, Section 7: Community Practices
  June 24, 2021 – Recording
  
• The book: RE-SOUNDING: Introducing an Alternative Metaphor for Organization Change
  Authors: Rik Spann and Simon Martin
  May 27, 2021 – Recording
  
• The book: The Sage Handbook of Social Constructionist Practice
  Editor: Murillo Moscheta, Section 6: Practices in Healthcare
  May 20, 2021 – Recording
  
• The book: The Sage Handbook of Social Constructionist Practice
  Editor: Thalia Dragonas, Section 5: Practices in Education
  April 23, 2021 – Recording
  
• The book: The Sage Handbook of Social Constructionist Practice
  Editor: Diana Whitney, Section 4: Practices in Organization Development
  March 19, 2021 – Recording
  
• The book: Dialogic Social Inquiry: Qualitative Research Without a Methodological Map
  Authors: Jan N. DeFehr, Cynthia Loreto Sosa Infante, & Christian Israel Lizama Valladares
  March 10, 2021 – Recording
  
• The book: The Sage Handbook of Social Constructionist Practice
  Editors: Dan Wulff and Sally St. George, Section 3: Practices in Therapeutic Professions
  February 25, 2021 – Recording
  
• The book: The Sage Handbook of Social Constructionist Practice
  Editor: Kenneth J. Gergen, Ph.D. and authors of contributing chapters in Section 2: Research Practices
  January 27, 2021 – Recording
  
• The book: The Sage Handbook of Social Constructionist Practice
  Editors: Sheila McNamee, Mary M. Gergen, Celiane Camargo-Borges, and Emerson F. Rasera
  December 2, 2020 – Recording
  
• The book: Beyond the Tyranny of Testing:Relational Evaluation in Education
  Authors: Kenneth J. Gergen, Ph.D. and Scherto R. Gill, Ph.D.
  October 27, 2020 – Recording
  
• The book: Building Resilience with Appreciative Inquiry: A Leadership Journey through Hope, Despair, and Forgiveness
  Authors: Joan McArthur-Blair and Jeanie Cockel
  September 24, 2020 – Recording
  
• The book: Thriving Women, Thriving World: An Invitation to Dialogue, Healing and Inspired Actions
  Author: Diana Whitney, Caroline Adams Miller, Tanya Cruz Teller, Marlene Ogawa, Jessica Cocciolone, Haesun Moon, Kathryn Britton, Angela Koh & Alejandra Leon de la Barra 
  August 20, 2020 – Recording
  
• The book: Art+Medicine Collaborative Practice: Transforming the Experience of Head and Neck Cancer
  Author: Pam Brett-MacLean and Lianne McTavish 
  June 25, 2020 – Recording
  
• The book: Descriptive Psychology and the Person Concept
  Author: Wynn Schwartz, Ph.D.
  May 26, 2020 – Recording
  
• The book: Appreciative Inquiry as Daily Leadership Practice: Realizing Change One Conversation at a Time
  Author: Luc Verheijen, Saskia Tjepkema, Joeri Kabalt
  April 30, 2020 – Recording
  
• The book: The Art of Dialogue in Coaching: Towards Transformative Exchange
  Author: Reinhard Stelter
  March 18, 2020 – Recording
  
• The book: Unlocked: Discover how to embrace the unexpected
  Author: Madelyn Blair
  February 24, 2020 – Recording
  
• The book: Narrative Approaches to Organizational Development: A Case Study of Implementation of Collaborative Helping
  Author: William C Madsen
  October 5, 2018 – Recording
  
• The book: Healing Conversations Now:Enhance Relationships with Elders and Dying Loved Ones
  Authors: Tony Silbert and Joan Chadbourne. 
  June 11 – 15, 2018 – Recording
  
• The topic: Engaging with ​CMM (the Coordinated Management of Meaning) and its applications from every day relationships and with coaching, consulting and research 
  Authors: Ilene Wasserman and Natasha Rascon
  May 7 – 11, 2018 – Recording
  
• The book: When Stories Clash: Addressing Conflict with Narrative Mediation 
  Authors: Gerald Monk and John Windslade
  February 5 – 9, 2018 – Recording
  
• The book: The Inheritors: Moving Forward from Generational Trauma
  Author: Gita Baack 
  October 2-6, 2017 – Recording
  
• The book: Education as Social Construction: Contributions to Theory, Research and Practice
  Editors: Thalia Dragonas, Sheila McNamee and Eleftheria Tseliou 
  October 10, 2017 – Recording
  
• The topic: Paths to Positive Aging: Dog Days with a Bone and Other Essays
  Authors: Ellen Cole, Mary Gergen and Jane Giddan 
  November 6 – 10, 2017 – Recording
  
• The book: Family Therapy as Socially Transformative Practice
  Authors: Sally St. George, Dan Wulff, Ron Chenail, Lynda Snyder and Lynda Ashbourne.
  September 12 – 19, 2016 – Recording
  
• The book: Eros/Power: Relational Action Inquiry integrating subjectivity, inter-subjectivity and objectivity
  Authors: Hilary Bradbury and Bill Torbert
  June 13 – 17, 2016 – Recording
  
• The book: Appreciative Leadership: Focus on What Works to Drive Winning Performance and Build a Thriving Organization
  Authors: Diana Whitney and Amanda Trosten-Bloom
  April 4 – 8, 2016 – Recording
  
• The book: The Overweight Brain: How Our Obsession with Knowing Keeps Us from Getting Smart Enough to Change the World
  Author: Lois Holzman
  February 8-12, 2016 – Recording
  
• The article: Intergenerativity and Innovation!
  Authors: Kristin Bodiford and Peter Whitehouse
  October 5-9, 2015 – Recording
  
• The book: Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz
  Author: Frank Barret
  May 4-22, 2015 – Recording
  
• The article: From Mirroring to World-Making: Research as Future Forming
  Author: Ken Gergen
  2015 – Recording