Program and Schedule
Unfolding Dialogues: Relational Resources for Global Good
a week-long series of virtual, global events
November 12-18, 2022
Global Opening Event – November 12, 2022 – 10:00 am – 1:00 pm (US EST/New York time)
Global Closing Event – November 18, 2022 – 12:00 noon – 2:00 pm (US EST/New York time)
November 12-18, 2022 – Many events will be happening in various time-zones and in many languages over these seven days. You can choose how you want to participate: when/which time zone, which language, and which topics and practices. See sample sessions below.
** We want to alert everyone that the US time change will be happening on Nov. 6. The events on this page are listed in US Eastern Standard Time (EST). Please check the schedule carefully and use a time zone converter, for the specific date of the event, to confirm the time in your local time zone.
To access the details of the sessions, descriptions, the full program, host bios, and to start connecting with other participants, please register to join the Taos Institute 2022 Gathering!
| Date | Time (Eastern/New York Time Zone) ** | Event Title | Event Guest(s) & Host(s) | Countries |
| SATURDAY, November 12 | (US EST/New York time) | Please use a time zone converter, to confirm your local time zone. | ||
| Sat. Nov 12 | 10:00 am – 1:00 pm | Global Opening Plenary: An Earthshot Moment for a Relational Change – for Everyone and Every Organization on the Planet | David Cooperrider, hosted by Ken Gergen & Sheila McNamee | United States |
| Sat. Nov 12 | 2:00 – 4:00 pm | Mission: JOY – Finding Happiness in Troubled Times | Dawn Dole | United States |
| Sat. Nov 12 | 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm | Why Should White People Talk Together About White Supremacy? | Jill Freedman, Gene Combs, Becky Pizer & Helen Turner | United States, United Kingdom |
| SUNDAY – November 13 | (US EST/New York time) | Please use a time zone converter, to confirm your local time zone. | ||
| Sun. Nov 13 | 10:00 am – 11:30 am | Life as Collective Project: Zadie Smith’s Pandemic Writing as Relational Inspiration | Karen Gold | Canada |
| Sun. Nov 13 | 12:00 noon – 1:00 pm | Transmaterial Worlding in Practice | Leah Salter & Gail Simon | England, Wales |
| Sun. Nov 13 | 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm | Reconstructing “Migration”: Geographical, Emotional, Social, Identity and Relational Landscapes | Nozomu (望) Ozaki (尾崎), Liz Davila (she/her/ella), Monica Sesma & Tommy Spence (bi-lingual Spanish/English/Japanese) | Canada, United States |
| Sun. Nov 13 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm | Building Your Own Superhero | Brittani Oliver Sillas-Navarro | United States |
| Sun. Nov 13 | 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm | Shedding the Limits of Labels: Ending Coercion and Oppression-Exploring Alternatives to “Justness”/ Healing/Wellness | Susan Swim, David Abramovitch, Emma Mackintosh & Joanna Buickians (bi-lingual English/Spanish/Armenian) | United States |
| Sun. Nov 13 | 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm | Depolarizing Conversations: Possibilities for Collaborative-Dialogic Practices in a Polarized World | Diane Gehart | United States |
| Sun. Nov 13 | 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm | Performing Relational Leadership: An Inside Look at Improvisational Executive Coaching | Cathy Salit & Aimee Cardwell | United States |
| Sun. Nov 13 | 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm | Daily Global Connection Plenary: Context & Culture Influence Stories & Conversation … & Future Possibilities | Shi-Jiuan Wu & Inés Sametband, hosted by Harlene Anderson, Sally St. George & Pamela Brett-MacLean | Canada, Taiwan, United States |
| MONDAY, November 14 | (US EST/New York time) | Please use a time zone converter, to confirm your local time zone. | ||
| Mon. Nov 14 | 8:30 am – 10:00 am | Research as an Adventurous Journey | Loek Schoenmakers | The Netherlands |
| Mon. Nov 14 | 10:00 am – 11:00 am | The Relational Corp Mission Charter Initiative | Ginny Belden-Charles, & Eva Bilhuber | United States, Switzerland |
| Mon. Nov 14 | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm | Daily Global Connection Plenary: Relational Governance | Ottar Ness & Hilary Cottam, hosted by Monica Sesma & Ken Gergen | Canada, Norway, United Kingdom, United States |
| Mon. Nov 14 | 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | Relational and Collaborative Counselling with Refugees and Survivors of Trafficking | Giacomo Chiara, Tom Strong & Ines Sametband | Canada, Italy |
| Mon. Nov 14 | 1:00 pm – 2:30pm | Writing with an Ethic of Care | Gail Simon, Leah Salter & Nafeesa Nizami (Naz) | United Kingdom |
| Mon. Nov 14 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm | Troubling Oppressive Understandings of “Wellness”: What Are You Prioritizing in Supervision? | Monica Sesma & Susan Swim (Spanish/English) | Canada, United States |
| Mon. Nov 14 | 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm | Releasing Generational and Collective Trauma | Gita Baack | Canada |
| Mon. Nov 14 | 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm | The Voices of Tears | Bill Blaine-Wallace & Marjorie Roberts | United States |
| Mon. Nov 14 | 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm | Teacherly Authority: A Paradigm Whose Time Has Come | Melissa George & John Corrigan | Australia, Morocco |
| Mon. Nov 14 | 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm | Intersectionality and Other Relational Counter-Discourses: Resisting Colonial Constructions | Monica Sesma-Vazquez, Duane Bidwell & Paloma Torres-Dávila (Spanish/English) | Canada, United States, Puerto Rico |
| Mon. Nov 14 | 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm | Practices with Social Construction in Japan: Education, Health Care, and Welfare | Terumi Sameshima, Tomoko Hashimoto-Higashimura, Tokujiro Ninomiya, Shugo Tagashira, & Mikiko Suenaga (Japanese/English) | Japan |
| TUESDAY, November 15 | (US EST/New York time) | Please use a time zone converter, to confirm your local time zone. | ||
| Tues. Nov 15 | 9:00 am – 11:00 am | Exploring our Vulnerability in Contexts with Challenging Sociopolitical Discourses | Karin Taverniers, Jeannette Samper, Helena Águeda Marujo, & María Pilar Padilla (Spanish/English/Portuguese) | Argentina, Colombia, Portugal |
| Tues. Nov 15 | 9:30 am – 11:00 am | Co-creating Emotional Growth Organizations | Lois Holzman & Desire Wandan with Rita Ezenwa-Okoro, Majo Castrillo, Mana Mukaiyachi and Ishita Sanyal | United States, Nigeria, Japan, Mexico, India |
| Tues. Nov 15 | 10:00 am – 11:00 am | Dialogic Opportunities in Education & Business: breakout sessions to dialogue about case scenarios | Ron Reidy & Chet Warzynski | United States |
| Tues. Nov 15 | 11:00 am – 1:00 pm | Daily Global Connection Plenary: Creating Futures for Vulnerable Communities | Vicky Lugo & Marcela Losantos, hosted by Sheila McNamee & Paloma Torres Dávila (English/Spanish) | Bolivia, Colombia, United States, Puerto Rico |
| Tues. Nov 15 | 1:00 pm – 1:45 pm | Disciplined Imagination: Composing The Future in Therapy | Chris Hoff | United States |
| Tues. Nov 15 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm | The Eyes Have It: “Humor Beings” and Social Construction | Kermit Cole | United States |
| Tues. Nov 15 | 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm | Reflective Responsivity: A Concept to Creative Means of Transformation in Collaborative-Dialogical Practices | Bruno Lenzi & Evelize Costa (bi-lingual English/Portuguese) | Brazil |
| Tues. Nov 15 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm | The Words We Speak Create the Businesses We Lead: How Language Transforms our Organization’s Culture | Claudia Gross | Egypt/Middle East |
| Tues. Nov 15 | 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm | Out of Office: An Invitation into Intimacy and Resiliency When Hope has Faded | Pavel Nepustil & Susan Swim | Czech Republic, United States |
| Tues. Nov 15 | 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm | What’s normal?! Building new futures by performing and creating healing spaces | Paloma Torres-Dávila, Marian Rich & Aurelie Harp (bi-lingual English/Spanish) | Puerto Rico, United States |
| Tues. Nov 15 | 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm | Conversational Interfluence: The effects, efforts, and efficacy | Haesun Moon | Canada |
| WEDNESDAY, November 16 | (US EST/New York time) | Please use a time zone converter, to confirm your local time zone. | ||
| Wed. Nov 16 | 9:00 am – 11:00 am | Gusakaza ubushakashatsi muri social work mu rurimi rw’ikinyarwanda (Decolonizing social work research and education: reflecting on knowledge) | Serge Nyirinkwaya (Kinyarwanda) | Canada/Rwanda |
| Wed. Nov 16 | 9:00 am – 10:00 am | When Our Clients Bring Hate Speech into Therapeutic Conversations | Karin Taverniers & Constanza Gottelli | Argentina |
| Wed. Nov 16 | 9:00 am – 11:00 am | Community Design – Performing Social Innovation | Celiane Camargo-Borges, Angelica van Dam & Jovita Steeman | The Netherlands |
| Wed. Nov 16 | 9:00 am – 10:30 am | El construccionismo social en el contexto de un paradigma emergente en la ciencia | Jorge Leiva (bi-lingual Spanish/English) | Chile |
| Wed. Nov 16 | 9:00 am – 11:00 am | Mutual Learning and Child Protection: Global Conversations | Saliha Bava & Rocío Chaveste | United States, Mexico |
| Wed. Nov 16 | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm | Daily Global Connection Plenary: Dialogues across Divides | Bill Doherty (Braver Angels) hosted by Ken Gergen & Diana Whitney | United States |
| Wed. Nov 16 | 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm | Non-Judgement Day | Sheila McNamee & Greg Spiro | United Kingdom, United States |
| Wed. Nov 16 | 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm | Practicing Psychotherapy in Constructed Reality: Deconstruction, Altered States, and Therapist Charisma | Stephen Bacon | United States |
| Wed. Nov 16 | 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm | Relational researchers, I need your help! | Donald McCown | United States |
| Wed. Nov 16 | 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm | Artificial Intelligence as a Future Forming, Relational Technology | Pamela Brett-MacLean & Mark Hampton | Canada, France |
| Wed. Nov 16 | 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm | Ativismo terapêutico e mudança social: superando dicotomias? | Emerson Rasera (Portuguese) | Brazil |
| THURSDAY, November 17 | (US EST/New York time) | Please use a time zone converter, to confirm your local time zone. | ||
| Thurs. Nov 17 | 5:00 am – 6:30 am | Daily Global Connection Plenary: Research in Multiple Worlds | Norma Romm, Francis Akena Adyanga, & David Gallant, hosted by Sally St. George & Dan Wulff | Australia, Canada, South Africa, Uganda |
| Thurs. Nov 17 | 8:00 am – 9:00 am | Building Mindfulness Interactive Spaces | Charru Sharma | India |
| Thurs. Nov 17 | 10:00 am – 11:30 am | The Learner’s Pause: Education for Wonder – an opportunity for reflection on ourselves as lifelong learners in this gathering | Ilana Reisz, Richard De La Cuadra, Thalia Dragona, Rolla Lewis, Sylvia London, Deborah Nathan, Irma (Neca) Rodriguez, & Peter Whitehouse (bi-lingual English/Spanish) | Greece, Mexico, United States |
| Thurs. Nov 17 | 11:30 am – 1:00 pm | Planning to be Forgettable or Planning to be Memorable? The Practices of Narrative Design | Paul Costello & Akufuna Ngonda | United States |
| Thurs. Nov 17 | 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm | The Relational DEI Workplace | Saliha Bava & Mark Greene | United States |
| Thurs. Nov 17 | 12:00 noon – 2:00 pm | Perspectivas Construcionistas Sociais no Campo da Saúde Mental | Emerson Rasera, Carla Guanaes-Lorenzi, Rosana Rapizo, Clara Moriá, Bruna Smirne de Mattos, & Camila Motta (Portuguese) | Brazil |
| Thurs. Nov 17 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm | Ecosocial Reconstruction and the Future of Modern Civilization | Peter Whitehouse, Rolla Lewis, Hilary Bradbury, & Kristin Bodiford | United States |
| Thurs. Nov 17 | 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm | Global Zentangle Art & Play Session | Shana Pote & Melissa George | Morocco, United States |
| Thurs. Nov 17 | 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm | Generative Dialogical Perspective and Practice: Resources for Transforming Social Ecologies | Dora Fried Schnitman, Edgardo Morales, Nelson Molina Valencia, Leandro Carlo García Gómez, Rosa Suarez Prieto, Ivet García Montero, Silvia Crescini, Dora Isabel Garzón & Sheila McNamee (Spanish/Portuguese/English) | Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, United States |
| Thurs. Nov 17 | 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm | Usos e desafios das práticas narrativas coletivas: sentidos e práticas | Emerson Rasera, Cintia B. Ferreira, Neftali Centurion, & Paula Romite (Portuguese) | Brazil |
| Thurs. Nov 17 | 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm | Elderhood of our Ancestor Trees: an Exercise in Ecosocial Reconstruction and Personal Reimagination | Peter Whitehouse | United States |
| Thurs. Nov 17 | 4:00 pm -5:00 pm | Conversation Hour with Ken Gergen | Ken Gergen | United States |
| Thurs. Nov 17 | 5:00 pm -6:00 pm | Taos Global Gathering 2022 @ Canada | Pamela Brett-MacLean, Karen Gold & Haesun Moon | Canada |
| Thurs. Nov 17 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm | Investigación Narrativa: Conversaciones y Relatos | Vanessa Guzmán & Cintia Aguilar-Delgadillo (Spanish) | Mexico |
| FRIDAY, November 18 | (US EST/New York time) | Please use a time zone converter, to confirm your local time zone. | ||
| Fri. Nov 18 | 8:00 am – 10:30 am | Terapia Comunitária Integrativa: Comunidade em conversação | Marilene Grandesso, Valéria Paschoal, & Dery Leao (Portuguese/English) | Brazil |
| Fri. Nov 18 | 9:00 am – 10:30 am | Relational and Culturally Relevant Care in Mental Health Services for Immigrants and Newcomers | Monica Sesma-Vazquez, Denisha Nandkumar & Anna Ryan (English/Spanish) | Canada |
| Fri. Nov 18 | 9:00 am – 11:00 am | Mission: JOY – Finding Happiness in Troubled Times | Dawn Dole | United States |
| Fri. Nov 18 | 12:00 noon – 2:00 pm | Global Closing: Moving into the Future with Relational Resources for Global Good | Paloma Torres-Dávila & Jeannette Samper with guests from various regions of the globe | Puerto Rico, Colombia, and more |
