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.

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DateTime
(Eastern/New York Time Zone) **
Event TitleEvent 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 pmGlobal Opening Plenary: An Earthshot Moment for a Relational Change – for Everyone and  Every Organization on the PlanetDavid Cooperrider, hosted by Ken Gergen & Sheila McNameeUnited States
Sat. Nov 122:00 – 4:00 pmMission: JOY – Finding Happiness in Troubled TimesDawn DoleUnited States
Sat.
Nov 12
5:00 pm – 6:30 pmWhy 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 amLife as Collective Project: Zadie Smith’s Pandemic Writing as Relational InspirationKaren GoldCanada
Sun.
Nov 13
12:00 noon – 1:00 pmTransmaterial Worlding in PracticeLeah Salter & Gail SimonEngland, Wales
Sun.
Nov 13
1:00 pm – 3:00 pmReconstructing “Migration”: Geographical, Emotional, Social, Identity and Relational LandscapesNozomu (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 SuperheroBrittani Oliver Sillas-NavarroUnited States
Sun.
Nov 13
3:00 pm – 4:00 pmShedding the Limits of Labels: Ending Coercion and Oppression-Exploring Alternatives to “Justness”/ Healing/WellnessSusan Swim, David Abramovitch, Emma Mackintosh & Joanna Buickians (bi-lingual English/Spanish/Armenian)United States
Sun.
Nov 13
3:00 pm – 4:30 pmDepolarizing Conversations: Possibilities for Collaborative-Dialogic Practices in a Polarized WorldDiane GehartUnited States
Sun.
Nov 13
4:30 pm – 6:00 pmPerforming Relational Leadership: An Inside Look at Improvisational Executive CoachingCathy Salit & Aimee CardwellUnited States
Sun.
Nov 13
7:00 pm – 8:30 pmDaily Global Connection Plenary: Context & Culture Influence Stories & Conversation … & Future PossibilitiesShi-Jiuan Wu & Inés Sametband, hosted by Harlene Anderson, Sally St. George & Pamela Brett-MacLeanCanada, 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 amResearch as an Adventurous JourneyLoek SchoenmakersThe Netherlands
Mon.
Nov 14
10:00 am – 11:00 amThe Relational Corp Mission Charter InitiativeGinny Belden-Charles, & Eva BilhuberUnited States, Switzerland
Mon.
Nov 14
11:00 am – 12:30 pmDaily Global Connection Plenary: Relational GovernanceOttar Ness & Hilary Cottam, hosted by Monica Sesma & Ken GergenCanada, Norway, United Kingdom, United States
Mon.
Nov 14
12:30 pm – 1:30 pmRelational and Collaborative Counselling with Refugees and Survivors of TraffickingGiacomo Chiara, Tom Strong & Ines SametbandCanada, Italy
Mon.
Nov 14
1:00 pm – 2:30pmWriting with an Ethic of CareGail Simon, Leah Salter & Nafeesa Nizami (Naz)United Kingdom
Mon.
Nov 14
1:00 pm – 2:30 pmTroubling 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 pmReleasing Generational and Collective TraumaGita BaackCanada
Mon.
Nov 14
2:00 pm – 3:30 pmThe Voices of TearsBill Blaine-Wallace & Marjorie RobertsUnited States
Mon.
Nov 14
3:00 pm – 4:30 pmTeacherly Authority: A Paradigm Whose Time Has ComeMelissa George & John CorriganAustralia, Morocco
Mon.
Nov 14
4:00 pm – 6:00 pmIntersectionality and Other Relational Counter-Discourses: Resisting Colonial ConstructionsMonica Sesma-Vazquez, Duane Bidwell & Paloma Torres-Dávila (Spanish/English)Canada, United States, Puerto Rico
Mon. Nov 145:30 pm – 7:00 pmPractices with Social Construction in Japan: Education, Health Care, and WelfareTerumi 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 amExploring our Vulnerability in Contexts with Challenging Sociopolitical DiscoursesKarin Taverniers, Jeannette Samper, Helena Águeda Marujo, & María Pilar Padilla (Spanish/English/Portuguese) Argentina, Colombia, Portugal
Tues.
Nov 15
9:30 am – 11:00 amCo-creating Emotional Growth OrganizationsLois 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 amDialogic Opportunities in Education & Business: breakout sessions to dialogue about case scenariosRon Reidy & Chet WarzynskiUnited States
Tues.
Nov 15
11:00 am – 1:00 pmDaily Global Connection Plenary: Creating Futures for Vulnerable CommunitiesVicky 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 pmDisciplined Imagination: Composing The Future in TherapyChris HoffUnited States
Tues.
Nov 15
1:00 pm – 2:30 pmThe Eyes Have It: “Humor Beings” and Social ConstructionKermit ColeUnited States
Tues.
Nov 15
1:00 pm – 3:00 pmReflective Responsivity: A Concept to Creative Means of Transformation in Collaborative-Dialogical PracticesBruno Lenzi & Evelize Costa (bi-lingual English/Portuguese)Brazil
Tues.
Nov 15
1:00 pm – 2:30 pmThe Words We Speak Create the Businesses We Lead: How Language Transforms our Organization’s CultureClaudia GrossEgypt/Middle East
Tues.
Nov 15
2:00 pm – 3:30 pmOut of Office: An Invitation into Intimacy and Resiliency When Hope has FadedPavel Nepustil & Susan SwimCzech Republic, United States
Tues.
Nov 15
2:00 pm – 3:30 pmWhat’s normal?! Building new futures by performing and creating healing spacesPaloma Torres-Dávila, Marian Rich & Aurelie Harp (bi-lingual English/Spanish)Puerto Rico, United States
Tues.
Nov 15
4:00 pm – 5:30 pmConversational Interfluence: The effects, efforts, and efficacyHaesun MoonCanada
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 amGusakaza 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 amWhen Our Clients Bring Hate Speech into Therapeutic Conversations
Karin Taverniers & Constanza GottelliArgentina
Wed.
Nov 16
9:00 am – 11:00 amCommunity Design – Performing Social InnovationCeliane Camargo-Borges, Angelica van Dam & Jovita SteemanThe Netherlands
Wed.
Nov 16
9:00 am – 10:30 amEl construccionismo social en el contexto de un paradigma emergente en la cienciaJorge Leiva (bi-lingual Spanish/English)Chile
Wed.
Nov 16
9:00 am – 11:00 amMutual Learning and Child Protection: Global ConversationsSaliha Bava & Rocío ChavesteUnited States, Mexico
Wed.
Nov 16
11:00 am – 12:30 pmDaily Global Connection Plenary: Dialogues across DividesBill Doherty (Braver Angels) hosted by Ken Gergen & Diana WhitneyUnited States
Wed.
Nov 16
1:00 pm – 3:00 pmNon-Judgement DaySheila McNamee & Greg SpiroUnited Kingdom, United States
Wed.
Nov 16
1:00 pm – 3:00 pmPracticing Psychotherapy in Constructed Reality: Deconstruction, Altered States, and Therapist CharismaStephen BaconUnited States
Wed.
Nov 16
3:00 pm – 4:30 pmRelational researchers, I need your help!Donald McCownUnited States
Wed.
Nov 16
3:00 pm – 4:30 pmArtificial Intelligence as a Future Forming, Relational TechnologyPamela Brett-MacLean & Mark HamptonCanada, France
Wed.
Nov 16
5:00 pm – 6:00 pmAtivismo 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 amDaily Global Connection Plenary: Research in Multiple WorldsNorma Romm, Francis Akena Adyanga, & David Gallant, hosted by Sally St. George & Dan WulffAustralia, Canada, South Africa, Uganda
Thurs. Nov 178:00 am – 9:00 amBuilding Mindfulness Interactive SpacesCharru SharmaIndia
Thurs.
Nov 17
10:00 am – 11:30 amThe Learner’s Pause: Education for Wonder – an opportunity for reflection on ourselves as lifelong learners in this gatheringIlana 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 pmPlanning to be Forgettable or Planning to be Memorable? The Practices of Narrative DesignPaul Costello & Akufuna NgondaUnited States
Thurs.
Nov 17
12:00 pm – 1:30 pmThe Relational DEI WorkplaceSaliha Bava & Mark GreeneUnited States
Thurs.
Nov 17
12:00 noon – 2:00 pmPerspectivas Construcionistas Sociais no Campo da Saúde MentalEmerson Rasera, Carla Guanaes-Lorenzi, Rosana Rapizo, Clara Moriá, Bruna Smirne de Mattos, & Camila Motta (Portuguese)Brazil
Thurs.
Nov 17
1:00 pm – 2:30 pmEcosocial Reconstruction and the Future of Modern CivilizationPeter Whitehouse, Rolla Lewis, Hilary Bradbury, & Kristin BodifordUnited States
Thurs.
Nov 17
2:00 pm – 3:30 pmGlobal Zentangle Art & Play SessionShana Pote & Melissa GeorgeMorocco, United States
Thurs.
Nov 17
2:00 pm – 4:00 pmGenerative Dialogical Perspective and Practice: Resources for Transforming Social EcologiesDora 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 pmUsos e desafios das práticas narrativas coletivas: sentidos e práticasEmerson Rasera, Cintia B. Ferreira, Neftali Centurion, & Paula Romite (Portuguese)Brazil
Thurs.
Nov 17
3:00 pm – 4:00 pmElderhood of our Ancestor Trees: an Exercise in Ecosocial Reconstruction and Personal ReimaginationPeter WhitehouseUnited States
Thurs.
Nov 17
4:00 pm
-5:00 pm
Conversation Hour with Ken GergenKen GergenUnited States
Thurs.
Nov 17
5:00 pm -6:00 pmTaos Global Gathering 2022 @ CanadaPamela Brett-MacLean, Karen Gold & Haesun MoonCanada
Thurs.
Nov 17
6:00 pm – 7:30 pmInvestigación Narrativa: Conversaciones y RelatosVanessa 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 amTerapia Comunitária Integrativa: Comunidade em conversaçãoMarilene Grandesso, Valéria Paschoal, & Dery Leao (Portuguese/English)Brazil
Fri. Nov 189:00 am – 10:30 amRelational and Culturally Relevant Care  in Mental Health Services for Immigrants and NewcomersMonica Sesma-Vazquez, Denisha Nandkumar & Anna Ryan (English/Spanish)Canada
Fri. Nov 189:00 am – 11:00 amMission: JOY – Finding Happiness in Troubled TimesDawn DoleUnited States
Fri.
Nov 18
12:00 noon – 2:00 pmGlobal Closing: Moving into the Future with Relational Resources for Global GoodPaloma Torres-Dávila & Jeannette Samper with guests from various regions of the globePuerto Rico, Colombia, and more