Collaborative practice : relationships and conversations that make a difference across contexts and cultures /
edited by Harlene Anderson, Diane R. Gehart.
- First edition.
- New York : Routledge, 2022.
- 1 online resource (280 pages)
Part I: Conceptual Framework: Situating Collaborative-Dialogic PracticeConceptual Framework: Emerging Orienting Sensitivities for Relationships and Conversations that Invite Transformation and Possibility: Harlene Anderson, Houston, USAExpressions of the Philosophical Stance: Creating a Relational and Dialogic Space and Process for Generativity, Harlene Anderson, Houston, USAA Relationally Responsive World: The Politics of Collaborative-Dialogic Practice: Saliha Bava, New York, USADialogic Curiosity as Mindfulness Practice: Following the Moment-to-Moment Unfolding of Meaning Construction: Diane Gehart, California, USAThis Lovely Thing We Do Together: Collaborative-Dialogic Practice through a Literary Lens: Marsha McDonough, Texas, USAPart II: Collaborative-Dialogic Practice in Action: Applications Across Contexts, Cultures and DisciplinesCollaborative Practices in 21st Century Healthcare: Jenny Speice and Susan McDaniel, New York, USACommunity In-Conversation: Generating Collaborative and Dialogic Conversations in Community Context: Adela G. Garcia, Buenos Aires, Argentina & Marilene A. Grandesso, Sao Paulo, BrazilAncestral Knowledge and Postmodern Practices: Using Collaborative-Dialog to Restore Harmony in Indigenous Communities: Rocio Chaveste and Maria Luisa Molina, Merida, MexicoEmotional Resilience and Collective Care in the Environmental Movement: Jakub Cerny, Ostrava, Czech Republic, Lucia Cemova and Martin Kovak, Brno, Czech RepublicLearning Through Collaboration: Practices that Challenge our Tradition of Education, Professor, University of New Hampshire, Sheila McNameeCollaborative Responses Within a School Community: Reflections from the Covid-19 Experience: Richard De La Cuadra & Sylvia London, USA and MexicoCollaborative-Dialogic Practices in Business Management: Transforming Local Communities Through Engaged Relationship: Irma Rodríguez, Sylvia London & Luis Olguín, Mexico City, MexicoMerging Collaborative-Dialogic Practice within the Culture of an Internet Technology (IT) Company: Its Evolution Told through a Collection of Story Fragments: Gao Yun, Dolly, HaiBo Zeng, Beijing, China and Harlene Anderson, Texas USAFrom Mechanized Systems to Living Ecologies: Way-Finding in Collaborative-Dialogic Research: Jan DeFehr, Manitoba, CanadaEveryday Living as Inspiration for Collaborative Practices, Dan Wulff and Sally St. George, Calgary, Canada
Collaborative Practice provides counselors, psychotherapists, and other mental health professionals a humanizing approach in facilitating transformative dialogues with their clients, making a difference in our fast-changing, diverse, and ever-shrinking world. Written alongside a collection of international experts, Harlene Anderson and Diane Gehart introduce collaborative-dialogic practice as a method of encouraging relationships and conversations that create generative space and promote meaningful changes in clients, even in the most difficult situations. Promoting an epistemological and mindset shift, the main feature of the practice, the philosophical stance, guides the professional in particular ways of being, talking, thinking, and acting with others, informing future possibilities that were previously unimagined. Split into theory and practice, Part 1 introduces collaborative-dialogue and locates it within traditional and contemporary challenges and practices, providing an overview of its conceptual framework. Chapters in Part 2 then detail the practice in a variety of contexts, cultures, and diverse populations, such as educational settings, communities, businesses, organizations, research and psychotherapy, illustrating how readers can translate the concepts to their distinctive practice settings, their unique styles, and their clients' unique situations. Accessible and applicable, this book will be an essential resource and guide for professionals in diverse contexts, cultures, and disciplines, including counselors, psychotherapists, consultants, leaders, mentors, educators, and trainers. Written for those new and familiar to the ideas, it will open doors for professionals to expand their competence and to take time to pause, step-back and reflect on their practice.