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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Past Dialogues with the Authors are listed below. All recordings are available on our YouTube channel, and most recent ones are also available in the Event Replays section in the Taos Institute Commons.
Note: book links are included below for informational purposes only. We recommend purchasing books through your local bookstore whenever possible.
Past Events:
- The book: The Relational Workplace
Authors: Saliha Bava and Mark Greene
May 19, 2023 – Recording
- The book: Design Thinking and Social Construction – A Practical Guide to Innovation in Research
Authors: Celiane Camargo-Borges and Sheila McNamee
April 14, 2023 – Recording
- 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