The professionals, researchers and authors in this podcast season have shared their specific social constructionist practice in a pre COVID world. In this episode, five of us reflect how social constructionism as an orientation is relevant and

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Celebrating the Voice of Mary Gergen

Sep 26th, 2020 1m 1s

Professor Mary Gergen, passed away on the morning of September 22, 2020. Mary was a lively, courageous, and innovative trail blazer of the Taos Institute.I had the honor and pleasure to interview Mary early in 2020 for the Positivity Strategist

How Narrative Mediation Promotes Respectful Relationships

Sep 8th, 2020 36m 55s

Helping people move further away from what produces conflict and closer to the relationships they prefer is what narrative mediation seeks to produce. Conflict resolution through the lens of social construction, and framed as narrative mediatio

Community Building Practices that Attend to Difference

Aug 25th, 2020 46m 3s

How do we participate in community building practices in ways that attend to difference? Ways that are genuinely committed to consider power relations and how they play out when working amidst differences? What we encounter in community can shi

What is Transmaterial Worlding and Why do We Need to Pay Attention?

Aug 11th, 2020 55m 4s

Transmaterial worlding provokes us to pay attention. Once we start to realize that we are merely co-inhabitors of this world, we awaken to the notion we are making it, or breaking it, with each breath we take, each word we utter, and each actio

Approaching Educational Evaluation from a Relational Perspective

Jul 28th, 2020 38m 22s

Educational evaluation of the entire ecosystem in education can enhance learning processes, students’ engagement and vitality of relationships in classrooms, and in the evaluation of teaching and the school as a whole. Embracing collaborative l

Recovering from Addiction by Mobilizing Relational Processes

Jul 14th, 2020 45m 49s

Relational processes are key to recovering from addiction. Addiction's development, sustainability and finally its ending are embedded in family, community and broader societal contexts. In order to recover an addict needs to establish new bond

Social Therapeutics as Play, Performance and Becoming

Jun 30th, 2020 39m 6s

Dr. Lois Holzman explores the topic of social therapeutics as a playful, performatory, philosophical methodology for person and community development. Influenced by three intellectual traditions, social therapeutics seeks to bring meaning to ou

Transformative Community Conferencing - A Constructionist Approach to a More Hopeful Future

Jun 16th, 2020 51m 25s

Transformative community conferencing is an approach to community building or reconciliation. As a narrative practice, it embodies a more reflective orientation to relationships and to systems change. How and when we ask questions helps us thin

Creating School Harmony with Social Constructionist Practices

Jun 2nd, 2020 52m 41s

How we deal with conflict, bullying, rule violation, etc. has crucial implications on how we live together in schools but also in society. Unfortunately, punitive and authoritative approaches are still predominant, despite their negative conseq

Positive Aging through the Lens of Social Construction

May 19th, 2020 43m 17s

Research into positive aging delivers findings that run counter to the traditional understanding of aging. The traditional view develops negative expectations. To the contrary, positive aging research and practice puts attention on the value of

Social Innovation Practices Through the Lens of Social Construction

May 5th, 2020 38m 39s

This is the introductory episode of season 5 which focuses on social innovations across many domains. We are collaborating with the Taos Institute and supporting a significant publication, The Sage Handbook of Social Constructionist Practice. M

Save The Date: Launching A Season Worth Waiting For

Apr 21st, 2020 4m 54s

Save the Date for Season 5. It’s a collaboration with the Taos Institute. Our inquiry: What are the innovations that Social Construction is bringing to our world? If you are new to social constructionist ideas and curious, this season will give

Celebrating Entangled Relationships Through Appreciative Embodying

Nov 26th, 2019 32m 57s

The forests and trees, and rivers and oceans, and deserts, and all creatures have much to teach us about mutuality of purpose, and collaboration, and respect and values. Paying attention to natural phenomena - the ecology of our planet reshapes

Mindfulness For Chocolate Lovers - A Sweet, Embodying Practice

Nov 14th, 2019 40m 7s

Mindfulness for chocolate lovers introduces a lighthearted way to stress less and savor more each day, offering a more playful and sweeter life. This is appreciative embodying in a tasteful, olfactory way! And you don't even have to eat the cho

How Being Still Super Charges Your Aliveness with Gail Condrick

Nov 7th, 2019 43m 35s

Being still is a precursor to truly listening, paying attention and opening up to possibilities, novelty, creativity and aliveness. What is beckoning you? Racing around may be helpful to get things done. Being still allows things to come. Embod

How Meaningful Alignment and Appreciative Embodying are Bedfellows with Susan Steinbrecher

Oct 31st, 2019 37m 30s

A most practical conversation on meaningful alignment where we talk about concepts such as the inner game and self regulation. We focus on interpersonal dialogue preferences and the promising outcomes we can aspire to if we learn how to embody

Cultivating Embodiment Practices For an Appreciative Learning Organization

Oct 24th, 2019 39m 2s

If you’re interested in human development at the intersection of community, business, education, leadership, life, and learning stay with us. And, if you have a curiosity about exploring the principle of wholeness and embodied practices that in

Neuroscience and Design Are Keys to Conscious Embodiment with Dr. Kyra Bobinet

Oct 17th, 2019 43m 34s

Neuroscience and Design Thinking offer keys to a mindful, healthy and purposeful life. Dr. Kyra Bobinet author of Well Designed Life offers the science behind why we don’t do what we know we should. We talk about the difference between behavior

How to Cultivate Embodied Consciousness with Dr. Lynda Klau

Oct 10th, 2019 39m 18s

Insights about the embodied brain and why cultivating a conscious relationship with the body matters at all times, and, especially when experiencing times of uncertainty. We touch on these topics and the integration of neuroscience and spirit.

What Does it Mean to Embody?

Oct 3rd, 2019 28m 9s

"To embody" means what? This is a naive exploration. Topics include designing experiences that use the whole body and ways that integrate head, heart and body. We vote with our feet, we make choices through conversations that come from where we

How Do You Do Appreciative Embodying?

Sep 25th, 2019 23m 23s

This show as an inquiry or a search into the topic of embodying, specifically appreciative embodying. How do you move from acute awareness to deliberate action? This is an exploration of how embracing the wholeness of who we are, we embark on a

Reflecting On The Topic Of Appreciative Leading - PS116

Apr 25th, 2019 13m 26s

Reflecting on all the delicious diversity of perspectives on the topic of Appreciative Leading including stories on the significance of the relational process, connection, collaboration, love. For links and resources discussed in this episode,

Going Meta To Appreciative Leading With Sheila McNamee - PS115

Apr 18th, 2019 39m 5s

Going meta on the topic of Appreciative Leading, Sheila McNamee offers us the social constructionist's perspective: what leading means as a relational process rather than as an individual's characteristics, traits or skills. For links and resou