25th and 26th October
Ken Gergen is a Senior Research Professor at Swarthmore, the Chairman of the Board of the Taos Institute, and an Adjunct Professor at Tilburg University.
Sheila McNamee is Professor of Communication at the University of New Hampshire and a founder, Vice President and board member of the Taos Institute.
This workshop invites participants into an exploration and reconstruction of our work as therapists and social care professionals. We will explore the ways in which relational forms of understanding – emanating from a constructionist stance – help us engage families and communities in transformative processes. Among other issues, we will explore what “therapy as social construction” means for the way we work with clients, how traditional forms of practice can be incorporated, and the cutting edge challenges in practice now confronted. We will touch on issues of social justice and power, and related concerns with ethics, morality, responsibility, and accountability. Of special interest, we will treat new developments in relational theory, and the reconstruction of mind as relational action.