Collaborative-Dialogic Practice: Relationships and Conversations that Make a Difference Across Contexts and Cultures

253 Pages·2022·10.625 MB·English

by  Harlene Anderson, Diane R. Gehart

Collaborative-
Dialogic Practice
Have you ever wondered how to successfully communicate with someone who
sees the world from an entirely diferent angle than you do? Ofen the chasm
seems impossible to navigate, even with the best of intentions. Whether you
work in a boardroom, schoolroom, therapy room, or community organization,
Collaborative-Dialogic Practice ofers a humanizing approach to facilitating
dialogues that make a diference in our fast-changing, diverse, and ever-
shrinking world. Tese practices encourage relationships and conversations
that create a generative space and promote meaningful transformations, even
in the most difcult situations. Tis approach involves an epistemological
and mindset shif in how we think about ourselves, the people we meet, what
we do together, and how we do it. Grounded in social constructionism, the
main feature of the practice, the philosophical stance, guides the professional
in particular ways of being, talking, thinking, and acting with others. Rather
than assuming an expert position of authoritative knowledge, collaborative
practitioners use curiosity, not-knowing, and uncertainty to engage others
in meaningful dialogue that generates new understandings, informing future
possibilities that were previously unimagined by either person alone.
Harlene Anderson, PhD, Co-founder and Board Member of Te Taos Institute
and Houston Galveston Institute; and Co-editor of Collaborative Terapy:
Relationships and Conversations that Make a Diference (Routledge, 2006).
Diane R. Gehart, PhD, Professor, California State University, Northridge;
Director, Institute for Terapy that Works; and Co-editor of Collaborative
Terapy: Relationships and Conversations that Make a Diference (Routledge,
2006).

Collaborative-
Dialogic
Practice
Relationships
and Conversations
that Make
a Difference Across Contexts and Cultures
Harlene Anderson and Diane R. Gehart
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Contents
About the Editors ix
List of Contributors xi
Editors’ Welcome and Introduction xiii
Part I Conceptual Framework: Situating
Collaborative-Dialogic Practice 1
1 Conceptual Framework: Emerging Orienting
Sensitivities for Relationships and Conversations
that Invite Transformation and Possibility 3
HARLENE ANDERSON
2 Expressions of the Philosophical Stance: Creating a
Relational and Dialogic Space and Process
for Generativity 19
HARLENE ANDERSON
3 A Relationally Responsive World: Te Politics
of Collaborative-Dialogic Practices 37
SALIHA BAVA
4 Curiosity as Mindfulness Practice: Following the
Moment-to-Moment Unfolding of
Meaning Construction 55
DIANE R. GEHART
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5 Tis Lovely Ting We Do Together:
Collaborative-Dialogic Practice through
a Literary Lens 69
MARSHA MCDONOUGH
Part II Collaborative-Dialogic Practice in Action:
Applications across Contexts, Cultures,
and Disciplines 83
6 Collaborative Practice in 21st-Century Healthcare 85
JENNY SPEICE AND SUSAN H. MCDANIEL
7 Community in Conversation: Generating Collaborative
and Dialogic Conversations in Community Contexts 103
ADELA G. GARCíA AND MARILENE A. GRANDESSO
8 Ancestral Knowledge and Collaborative-Dialogic
Practices: A Generative Encounter 117
ROCíO CHAVESTE AND M. L. PAPUSA MOLINA
9 Refecting Processes in Working with Climate
Justice Activist Collectives 131
JAKUB CERNY, LUCIA CEMOVA, AND MARTIN NOVAK
10 Learning Trough Collaboration: Practices Tat
Challenge Our Tradition of Education 149
SHEILA MCNAMEE
11 Collaborative Responses within a School Community:
Refections from the COVID-19 Experience 161
RICHARD DE LA CUADRA AND SYLVIA LONDON
12 Collaborative Capital Links in Business and
Community Development: Building Buildings
and Relationships 173
IRMA RODRíGUEz AND SYLVIA LONDON,
WITH LUIS OLGUíN
13 Merging Collaborative-Dialogic Practice within the
Culture of an Internet Technology (IT) Company:
Its Evolution Told through a Collection
of Story Fragments 187
YUN GAO, DOLLY XIE, HAIBO zENG,
AND HARLENE ANDERSON
Contents  • vii
14 From Mechanized Systems to Living Ecologies:
Way-Finding in Collaborative-Dialogic Research 201
JAN N. DEFEHR
15 Everyday Living as Inspiration for
Collaborative Practices 213
DAN WULFF AND SALLY ST. GEORGE
Index 225

About the Editors
Harlene Anderson, PhD, is Co-founder and Board Member of the Hou-
ston Galveston Institute, Houston, Texas, and Te Taos Institute, Chagrin
Falls, Ohio. She is the Author of Conversation, Language, and Possibilities:
A Postmodern Approach to Terapy and Co-editor of several books, as well as
numerous journal articles and book chapters on postmodern collaborative-
dialogic approach to practices across disciplines, contexts, and cultures. Harlene
is recognized internationally as being at the leading edge of the development
and linkage of a postmodern philosophy and collaborative practices in therapy,
supervision, training, and business/organization consultation. She lives in Hou-
ston, Texas, with her husband H. David Shine.
Diane R. Gehart, PhD, is Professor in the Marriage and Family Terapy Pro-
gram at California State University, Northridge, and Founder of the Institute of
Terapy that Works. She has authored numerous books, including Mastering
Competencies in Family Terapy; Mindfulness and Acceptance in Couple and
Family Terapy; Teory and Treatment Planning in Counseling and Psychother-
apy; and one book for popular audiences, Mindfulness for Chocolate Lovers:
A Lighthearted Way to Stress Less and Savor More Each Day. Learn more about
her work at www.dianegehart.com or follow her on YouTube.
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