Websites in English
The following is a list of institutions with which our work is deeply resonant. Click on any program’s title for more information:
ACS International
Appreciative Consulting Services (ACS) International is a multidisciplinary consulting firm registered in Bangladesh as a Private Limited Company. It brings out a new era of consulting services to add values and to create sustainable impacts of what we can by its distinctive and innovative approaches.
Appreciative Action
APPRECIATIVE ACTION is a consultancy that uses strength-based practices for positive change and building resilience in teams, organizations and communities.
Appreciative Inquiry Centre for Excellence: Wilgespruit Fellowship in S. Africa
Wilgespruit Fellowship, in partnership with Case Western Reserve University (CASE), and the National Training Laboratories Institute (NTL) are launching an Appreciative Inquiry Centre for Excellence. This exciting initiative locates for the first time within the African continent, a Centre where practioners, managers, leaders and those interested in understanding and facilitating transformation initiatives can acquire accreditation from those two world renowed U.S based organisations.
ASPEC – The Academy of Senior Professionals
at Eckerd College, St.Petersburg, Florida – As part of the initiative on Positive Aging, the Taos Institute has collaborated with the ASPEC. “Sharing Learning, Sharing Lives”: From the Visual arts to the Culinary Arts, Philosophy to Bicycling, Religions and Faiths to Science and Society, Literature to Laughing Matters, ASPEC Study Groups enrich the minds, hearts and souls of its 300 plus members. We interact regularly with students and faculty of Eckerd College as mentors, colleagues, and friends. Weekly Social Hours at Lewis House on the campus and monthly events at local restaurants provide ASPEC members with the opportunity to socialize with each other and strengthen the ASPECcommunity. Whether you’re interested in Computers, Visual Arts, Science and Society or one of the 44 other interest groups formed by members of ASPEC, there’s something for everyone interested in learning and sharing.
Bushe-Marshak Institute (BMI)
Dialogic OD is the next step in the evolution of organizational change theory, from thinking of organizations as organisms that adapt to their environments, to organizations as networks of meaning-making, always in a process of becoming. The mission of BMI is to further research, theory and the practice of Dialogic OD.
Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry
The David L. Cooperrider Center for Appreciative Inquiry opened in 2014 in the Robert P. Stiller School of Business at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont with a mission “to be the global hub for connecting people to learn, apply, and amplify Appreciative Inquiry.” The center offers workshops and a certification program in Appreciative Inquiry, access to a network of practitioners and facilitators of organizational-change initiatives, a rich resource library, a Facebook group, the Inspiring Impacts podcast, and events to connect practitioners and organizations with each other and with research and practice. For more information, contact Taos Associate Lindsey Godwin, Ph.D., Academic Director of the CCAI.
Center for Narrative Studies
CNS is a multi-disciplinary team dedicated to applying narrative theory to the practical renewal of leadership in culture and communities. Working with groups and organizations, we train people to become leaders by teaching them to understand the power of stories, to weigh the real effects stories have in shaping our lives, to apply narrative approaches to engage creatively with conflict and change.
Center for Social Constructionist Psychology Studies
This website is in the Chinese language and hosted by the Nanking Normal University. The creation of the website for this Center for Social Constructionist Psychology Studies in China was funded by the Taos Institute’s grant program for Taos Institute Associates.
Citizen Engagement Initiatives
To support social and economic wellbeing for children, youth, families, and communities in ways that are equitable and sustainable. To build bridges among researchers, policy-makers, and practitioners as well as across sectors in order to facilitate knowledge mobilization, cultivate effective partnerships, and engage in meaningful action.
CMM Institute
Welcome to the CMM Institute for Personal and Social Evolution website. The primary tasks of the Institute are two-fold: to help those of us living in the 21st Century shift our taken-for-granted view of communication as a tool used to exchange ideas and information to a more complex understanding of what we are doing whenever we communicate and what communication is doing to us; and, second, to use the tools and models of CMM to help make, among other things, more compassionate, transformative, and generative personal and social worlds.
Cosmopolis2045
The Cosmopolis 2045 Project is a major initiative of the CMM Institute for Personal & Social Evolution set up to explore thequestion of “what could a better social world actually look like? “ Many people over a number of years have all responded to the challenge of the question and the Cosmopolis 2045 website is the culmination of their collaboration. The website contains a vision of a community set in the future (circa 2045) in which residents and leaders of the community have adopted a communication-centric view of how their own and other social worlds function. The website is an information-rich resource for teaching classes on communication, especially cosmopolitan communication and for exploring the implications of a communication-centric view for a range of educational, legal, governance, and associated community practices.
Community Life Competence
This is the virtual community of the Constellation. Our focus on the site is the connection of Local Responses. Local Responses are “the actions that we, as communities, take to deal with the challenges that we face”.
Cooperative Communication Skills Internet Resource Center
Free books, essays and exercises to help you encourage dialogue/resolve conflicts/prevent violence, work with family members in building a more cooperative, shared life, and communicate more creatively, successfully and compassionately. Email Dennis Rivers: rivers@coopcomm.org
Corporation for Positive Change
Corporation for Positive Change (CPC) is dedicated to the design and development of appreciative organizations – those capable of sustaining innovation, financial well-being and market leadership by inspiring the best in human beings. PC clients are executives and managers who recognize the value of employee involvement in the process of change. They are strength-based leaders dedicated to creating healthy organizations financially, socially and environmentally.
Address:
Corporation for Positive Change
621 Damascus Church Road, Chapel Hill, NC, 27516
Email: office@positivechange.org
Dialogic Organization Development
This website provides free resources and links to tools and articles on Dialogic Organization Development (OD).
Dialogical Practice Network (Dpn)
DISPUK
DISPUK is the Danish Institute of Systemic Training, Supervision, Staff Development and Consultation, based in Snekkersten (Zealand) and Arhus (Jutland). It is a consultation and training institute, specializing in all aspects of relationship issues and communication.
Contact: Alan Holmgren, Copenhagen, Email: dispuk@dispuk.da
The Dulwich Centre
Dulwich Centre in Adelaide, Australia (on Kaurna Land), is one of the key ‘homes’ of narrative practice. They are involved in narrative therapy, community work, training, publishing, supporting practitioners in different parts of the world, and co-hosting international conferences.
East Side Institute
The East Side Institute for Group and Short Term Psychotherapy is an international educational, training and research center for developing and promoting alternative and radically humanistic approaches in psychology, therapy, education and community building. Contact: Lois Holzman
Essential Partners
The mission of Essential Partners is to foster a more inclusive, empathic and collaborative society by promoting constructive conversations and relationships among those who have differing values, world views, and positions about divisive public issues. The central objective of the Public Conversations Project is to avoid repeating unproductive debates and to develop new modes of communicating that lead to mutual understanding, respect, and trust. This reduces the costly effects of conflict and creates new possibilities for change.
Executive Edge, Inc.
Executive Edge is the catalyst that transforms organizations and inspires people to reach their greatest potential TOGETHER. They do this by producing targeted learning experiences that engage people, empower leaders, and accelerate team development. The end result is a motivated, committed workforce. Jim Willis, President
Address:
46 Chagrin Plaza, # 147, Chagrin Falls, OH 44022
Email: info@executiveedgeinc.com
The Family Centre The Family Centre publishes on all areas of its work, contributing to research and policy journals, therapeutic journals, and popular media and publications throughout the world. Family Centre staff belong to a three tikanga organisational structure, made up of Maori, Pacific Island and Pakeha sections that reflect the cultural diversity of Aotearoa.
Family Institute of Cambridge
The Family Institute of Cambridge is a learning community committed to enhancing the well being of individuals, families, and communities by developing and disseminating effective practices of therapy and consultation. Our work is rooted in our core values of mutual respect, collaboration, and social justice.
Address:
51 Kondazian, Watertown, MA 02472
Contact: Dr. Sallyann Roth, Email: info@familyinstitutecamb.org
Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit
Founded in 2009 by Taos Institute co-founder David Cooperrider, Ph.D., The Fowler Center for Business as an Agent of World Benefit (BAWB) exists to create a world in which business can prosper, human beings can flourish and nature can thrive. The Center helps propel business success and flourishing enterprise through the belief that business is one of the most powerful and positive forces for advancing a better world. At the heart of the Center is the AIM2Flourish program, wherein students around the world use appreciative inquiry to showcase breakthrough innovations that honor and scale for-profit businesses contributing to the 17 U.N. Sustainable Development Goals.
Global Partnership for Transformative Social Work (GPTSW)
This is a world-wide, non-affiliated community of social work educators, researchers, theoreticians and practitioners interested in exploring existing and potential expressions of what might loosely be called postmodern thought, in particular the confluence of perspectives termed social construction.
Haslebo & Partnere
Haslebo& Partnere er et erhvervspsykologisk konsulenthus, der har eksisteret siden 1991. Vi gennemfører konsulentydelser, uddannelser, temadageog kurser ud fra systemisk tænkning, anerkendende udforskning og narrativ praksis.
Address:
Niels Andersens Vej 50, DK-2900 Hellerup
Email: adm@haslebo-partnere.dk
Houston Galveston Institute
The Houston Galveston Institute (formerly the Galveston Family Institute) is internationally recognized for its innovative contributions to the advancements of theory, psychotherapy practice and research, and to the development of creative contexts for learning, practice and research. It has distinguished itself for its unique developments in brief therapy and has been acclaimed for its Collaborative Language Systems Approach with its emphasis on “problem-organizing systems”, the role of language, narrative and conversation in therapy, the not-knowing position, and the translation of these concepts into work with difficult life situations.
Address:
3316 Mount Vernon, Houston, TX 77006
Contact: Dr. Sue Levin, Email: admin@talkhgi.com
Imagine Chicago
Imagine Chicago is a non-profit organization that helps people develop their imagination as city creators. It offers everyone, especially young people, the opportunity to invest themselves in the city¹s future.
Address:
910 W. Castlewood Terrace, Chicago, IL 60640
Contact: Bliss Browne, bliss@imaginechicago.org
Innovation Partners International
Innovation Partners International (IPI) is multinational consultancy of senior practitioners passionately engaged at the intersection of Appreciative Inquiry and transformative change in whole systems — be they government, education, for-profit or not for profit. We exist to make a lasting positive difference in the world.Our practice is focused on ‘whole system’ or ‘systemic’ AI (e.g., the application of AI to issues of strategy, design, implementation and evaluation, with a systemic view of people, process, culture and technology). By combining our capabilities we create and support organizations which increasingly operate at the nexus of social benefit, economic prosperity and ecological sustainability and the human spirit. Contact: Jen Hetzel Silbert, Email: info@innovationpartners.com
International Institute On The Dialogical Self (Iids)
International Society For Dialogical Science (Isds)
JST Institute
JST INSTITUTE is a threshold to training and education in brief collaborative and narrative practices, integrating therapeutic ideas and practices with social justice values and principles.
Lessons in Psychology: Freedom, Liberation, and Reaction
A Descriptive Psychologist and Psychoanalyst’s exploration of the behavioral logic of freedom, liberation and reaction. Short takes on the qualities that make us human: empathy, ethics, aesthetics, improvisation and play.
Narrative Psychology Internet Resources
This guide provides a broad set of bibliographical and Internet-based resources for use in the study of narrative psychology and has been designed both as an Internet-available document for researchers generally and partially to be used within both an advanced undergraduate psychology and graduate-level seminar.
Contact: Vincent W. Hevern, SJ, Ph.D.
Psychology Department
Le Moyne College, Syracuse, NY 13214
Email: hevern@lemoyne.edu
Narrative and Conflict: Explorations of Theory and Practice
Narrative and conflict seeks to elaborate narrative perspectives of conflict resolution and conflict analysis. The premise of this perspective is the idea that stories are corporeal and interactive. They are more than reports of what is happening; how they are produced, circulated or circumvented gives shape to what people do.In addition, conflict resolution analyses and practices focused on intentionally facilitating shifts in the available narratives have the possibility to shift relationships between people or groups of people.Narrative and conflict publishes articles on conflict resolution and conflict analysis at local, national and international levels.
Narrative Therapy Center
The Narrative Therapy Center of the Mid-Atlantic was created to provide more resources for psychotherapists and others who wish to learn more and improve their Narrative Therapy skills. Inspired by the pioneering work of Australian family therapist Michael White and New Zealand family therapist David Epston, the Narrative Therapy Center will invite practitioners and teachers from around the world to share their work here in the Washington, DC area.
Narrative Works
Issues, Investigations & Interventions
Narrative Works is an online, open-access, peer-reviewed, interdisciplinary journal committed to exploring the complex role of narrative in countless aspects of human life.
The National Coalition for Dialogue & Deliberation (NCDD)
NCDD brings together people and groups who actively practice, promote and study inclusive, high quality conversations. NCDD is a vibrant network of over 700 organizations and individuals who, collectively, regularly engage and mobilize hundreds of thousands of people around today’s critical issues, and NCDD’s resource-rich website is a popular hub for dialogue and deliberation leaders.
Contact: Joy Garman, Email: ncdd@thataway.org
The Network for Dialogical Practices
Join the community centered around Dialogical Practices. Check out upcoming events, share your stories, find nearby colleagues. The Network for Dialogical Practices is an open platform for researchers, students and practitioners who want to help people in distress by full presence, responsiveness and human connection.
Nordic Research Center for Wellbeing and Social Sustainability (WellFare)
WellFare is a Nordic Research Center for Wellbeing and Social Sustainability at NTNU. WellFare brings together researchers, practitioners, students and relevant stakeholders from a wide range of disciplines and sectors. WellFare leads transdisciplinary and cutting-edge research to transforming communities and welfare systems towards a fairer, healthier and more socially sustainable future.
Contact: Ottar Ness, ottar.ness@ntnu.no
Now I See A Person
What is Equine Assisted Psychotherapy? Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (EAP) is recognized internationally as an effective mental health treatment option for a multitude of mental health problems and diverse populations, including at risk youth and adolescents, adults, couples, families, the elderly and life coaching. EAP focuses on the animal/human relationship and the significance of the horse as a therapeutic partner in the relational endeavor. Horses aiding people to connect, collaborate and changeHorses aiding people to connect, collaborate and change.
Contact: Susan Swim, swiminc@aol.com
Open Dialogical Practices
by the Network of Dialogical Practices
OvationNet
OvationNet is the result of a close collaboration between David Cooperrider and the founders of iCohere, Pascal Kaplan and Soren Kaplan. The goal of OvationNet is simple: to provide consultants, change agents and organizations with leading edge capabilities in Appreciative Inquiry that advance AI practice in the field.
Address: 1220 Oakland Boulevard, Suite 210, Walnut Creek, CA 94596
Peter Lang Foundation 2013
On this website you can learn more about the purposes of the Peter Lang Foundation 2013. You can learn about the reception, the activities, the Articles of Association, the Board of Directors and the next Ordinary General Meeting. You can also find out how you can become a member of the Foundation. You can find out how you make donations to support the purposes of the Foundation. You can also learn what you can do in order to contribute in the collection and preservation of documentation of Peter Lang’s career, work and inspirational influence all over the world.
Positive Aging
for many years, The Taos Institute published an electronic newsletter, Positive Aging. The newsletter brings to light resources from scientific research on aging, gerontology practices, and daily life that contribute to an appreciation of the aging process.
Positive Change Core
The Positive Change Core is a leading provider of innovative services for the transformation of educational communities. It is a open, global group of change agents (consultants, teachers, administrators, parents, students, staff, etc) responding to the irresistible invitation to co-construct a positive future for young people and those who influence their lives. Their mission is to partner with schools and youth organizations to build on the best of what already exists and create the brightest, most imaginative future possible. They are dedicated to producing rapid,
Click this link to join in the conversation (Acrobat PDF Reader required).
Join the PMTH listserv
“An online community for postmodern thinkers”
Contact: Karin Taverniers, ktaverniers@gmail.com.
Program on Social and Organizational Learning, George Mason University
The Program on Social and Organizational Learning (PSOL) is an interdisciplinary academic unit within the School of Public Policy at George Mason University aimed at developing an understanding of “social learning,” the way knowledge comes to be discovered and conveyed in social systems and organizations.
Address:
School of Public Policy, Arlington Original Building
Mail Stop 3B1, 3401 North Fairfax Dr., Arlington, VA, 22201-4411
Contact: Leslie Metzger, Director of Admissions, School of Public Policy, Email: spp@gmu.edu
Public Dialogue Consortium
We are a group of educators, consultants, and practitioners who promote high quality communication on public issues. We envision a world in which communication in the public sphere is humane, constructive, and beneficial to all.
Contact: Kimberly and Barnett Pearce
807 Wharfside Road, San Mateo, CA 94404, USA
Kimberly Pearce at kim@publicdialogue.org
Barnett Pearce at barnett@publicdialogue.org
or
Contact: Stephen W. Littlejohn, President
504 Luna Blvd. NW, Albuquerque, NM 87102-1930, USA
Email: stephen@publicdialogue.org
The Qualitative Report Guide to Qualitative Research Websites
Curated by Ronald J. Chenail
The world of qualitative research is at your fingertips. These links will take you to vibrant online communities, leading research centers, indispensable learning resources, and personal websites of outstanding qualitative research leaders. Explore, learn, enjoy the rich and diverse people who make up the online qualitative research universe!
Address: Nova Southeastern University, 3301 College Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33314 USA
Contact: Ronald J. Chenail, Ph.D., Email: ron@nsu.nova.edu
Qualitative-Research.net
FQS is a peer-reviewed multilingual online journal for qualitative research. The main aim of FQS is to promote discussion and cooperation among qualitative researchers from different countries and social science disciplines.
Address: Freie Universität Berlin, FB 12, WE 09, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact: Dr. Katja Mruck, Email: mruck@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Re-authoring Teaching
Re-authoring Teaching is a consortium of narrative practice teachers, practitioners and enthusiasts from around the world who seek to promote training and continuing education in a narrative approach to therapy, organizational, and community work. The term, “Re-authoring Teaching” is a play on the term “Re-authoring Conversations” that Michael White and David Epston coined in their original description of narrative therapy.
Relational Buddhism Relational Buddhism envisions Buddhist Psychology as a meta-view: mind is not gridlocked under-the-skin-in-the-skull-behind-the-eyeballs-in-between-the-ears but spaced in people’s interactivity; thus ‘we can’t share brain, but we can’t but share mind’…
The Relational Center
The Relational Center is committed to promoting dialogue for the purpose of engaging individuals, families, organizations and communities in social change through collaborative counseling, professional and public education, organizational consulting and community building.
Address: 5486 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90036
Email: info@relationalcenter.org
Relational Change. Better relationships. Better world.
Relational Change promotes a relational approach in all walks of life. Together with our associates and affiliated centres in the UK and Europe, we aim to deliver value to people, groups and communities in the areas of Organisational Development, Community Building, Coaching andPsychotherapy.
Relational Constructionism
Welcome to this website, devoted to relational constructionism and related methodologies of inquiry and transformation. A relational constructionist or social constructionist thought style involves some very different ways of thinking about what it is to be a person, about knowledge, power, inquiry, organizational and community development and transformation or change work. My purpose in providing this site is to help interested persons to know more of this style of thinking and practice.
Relational Thinking
Today, the organizations that are part of our network help businesses change the way they work to get the best out of their employees, strengthen ties with investors and build trust between stakeholders. We are also actively working with policy makers and academics worldwide to highlight the benefits of good relationships and the pressing need for reform in the way we do business, policy and community life.
Relational Welfare Research Group
The purpose of the research group is to help residents live good and dignified lives in strong communities, across generations and social backgrounds. Through innovation and research, citizens, local governments, academia, NGO’s, private sector and other relevant stakeholders will work together to develop new and more sustainable welfare solutions.
Remembering Practices.com
Remembering practices are a narrative approach to grief psychology that emphasize the ongoing story of relationship.
Research Dialogues
Welcome to this blog, my on-line attempt to articulate movement within a social inquiry project shared by fourteen Collaborative therapists from Scandinavia, USA, Australia, Mexico, and Canada. Response to the blog is always enthusiastically received at the following address: jdefehr @klinic.mb.ca
Robyn Stratton-Berkessel – Positivity Resources
Robyn Stratton-Berkessel – Appreciative Inquiry Resources
The Salem Center
The Salem Center for Therapy, Training, and Research is a home to clinical practitioners who are interested in developing skills that allow them to move closer to their hopes, dreams, and values in their work. We are committed to respect and accountability in our work with individuals, couples, families, professionals, groups, agencies, and clergy, who consult us for help with problems. Our professional training and programs for clinicians are based on Narrative and Dialogic therapy traditions, ideas, ethics, and practices. To learn more about these traditions, please go to our Mission page.
Address: 204 Lafayette Street, Salem, MA 01970
Saybrook Graduate School
For 30 years Saybrook’s goals have been the advancement of understanding human beings and the human condition, the encouragement of full expression of the highest human possibilities, and the furtherance of emancipatory values in individuals, communities, organizations and the world at large. Address: 450 Pacific St., San Francisco, CA
Servant Lawyership
Supporting transparent communication among stakeholders after adverse medical events
Sistemas Humanos
Human Systems Center Consulting is a system of ongoing training programs, training, intervention and care from a systemic and social construction in Colombia. We provide therapeutic care, development and management of projects from the systemic and social constructionist ideas.
Sistemas Humanos es un Centro de Consultoría Sistémica que desarrolla programas de formación, capacitación, intervención y atención desde el pensamiento sistémico y contruccionista social en Colombia. Ofrecemos servicios de atención terapéutica, desarrollo y gestión de proyectos desde las ideas sistémicas y construccionistas sociales.
SocioDynamic Counselling. A Constructivist Perspective
SocioDynamic Counselling was created by Vance Peavy, Professor Emeritus of the University of Victoria, former editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Counselling and a leading voice in the profession of counselling in Canada as well as in Europe, Australia and the USA.
Social psychology and social intervention
(Psicología Social y Socioconstruccionismo)
Welcome to this blog on social psychology and social intervention. Without wishing to be exhaustive we have attempted to gather information about this approach to social psychology. We invite you to enter all sections and participate with your comments and posts. If you wish to post on the blog write to jseguid@gmail.com and we will send an invitation. This website/blog is also in Spanish.
Social Constructionist Counselor Educators’ Listserve
Are you involved in training counselors using social constructionist ideas and want to discuss these ideas with other counselor educators? Consider joining the Social Constructionist Counselor Educators’ Listserve, moderated by Tom Strong and David Pare. For more information email: strongt@ucalgary.ca.
The Virtual Faculty
The Virtual Faculty is a group of constructionist scholars working toward a global education program for psychology. Contact: Andrew Lock, Department of Psychology, Massey University, New Zealand
University of Sheffield
Our mission: We want to understand the world and make it better.
Our vision: We want to be one of the best universities in the world.
Our identity: We were founded with the help of penny donations from Sheffield people.
Welcome to Wilgespruit
Welcome to our newly created website! Whether you are familiar with Wilgespruit from the past, or only come to know of us now, this website is our attempt to give you an idea of where we have come from and where we are going.