explored clinician writing as relational practice. She has completed narrative medicine training at Columbia University and is a Certified AWA creative writing facilitator. She has taught at the Faculty of Social Work and the Health, Arts & Humanities Program at the University of Toronto and has facilitated a wide range of writing workshops in hospital and community settings. She has published on arts-based pedagogy, poetic inquiry, collaborative practice, and personal narrative in professional practice.Dan Goodleyis co-director of iHuman – an interdisciplinary research institute at the University of Sheffield. He is a recovering psychologist and disability studies researcher who has written widely around the area. Recent publications include Disability Studies: An Interdisciplinary Introduction (Sage, 2016) and Dis/ability Studies (Routledge, 2014). He is currently working on a text for Emerald due out in 2020 entitled Disability and Other Human Questions.Carla Guanaes-Lorenziis a psychologist and family therapist. She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters of Ribeirão Preto (University of Sâo Paulo – Ribeirão Preto – Brazil), where she coordinates the activities of the Laboratory of Study and Research in Group Practices (LAPEPG-USP). Her activity at the Department of Psychology includes training, supervision and research on group work, family therapy and social constructionism. She is also a professor in the Graduate Program of Psychology (USP/Ribeirão Preto) where she mentors Masters and doctorate students on their research projects. She is author of the book, A construção da mudança em terapia de grupo: um enfoque construcionista social [The construction of change in group therapy: a social constructionist approach] (2006) and of many articles and book chapters. She is the mother of two little girls (Ana Cecília and Beatriz). Email:
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http://lattes.cnpq.br/5305070621567074Marilene A. Grandessois a Brazilian Psychologist; Family, Couple and Community Therapist; Faculty and Supervisor of Family and Couple Therapy at Catholic University, São Paulo; Founder and Chair of the INTERFACI Institute; Coordinator of the ICCP – International Certificate in Collaborative-Dialogical Practices – Houston Galveston Institute/Taos Institute and INTERFACI (since 2011); Coordinator of the Community Therapy training course at INTERFACI – Sao Paulo (since 2003); President of the Family Therapy Association of São Paulo (APTF – 2000–2001); and first President of the Brazilian Community Therapy Association (ABRATECOM – 2004–2005). She is the author of the book, About the Reconstruction of Meaning: An Epistemological and Hermeneutical Analysis of Clinical Practice (2000, in Portuguese). Marilene is also the organizer of the book, Community Therapy: Weaving Nets to Social Transformation: Health, Education and Public Politics (2007, in Portuguese) and three others about Collaborative-Dialogical Practices. She is a member of the Taos Institute and an editorial board member of World Share Books (Taos Institute).Julie Haizlipis Clinical Professor at the University of Virginia School of Nursing and Faculty in the University of Virginia Department of Pediatrics. Dr Haizlip conducts research on mattering in healthcare. She is currently the Director of the UVA Center for Appreciative Practice and co-Director of the UVA Center for Interprofessional Collaborations.Christopher Hallis Professor of Social Work at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington where he teaches graduate social work practice, field and postmodern electives. In addition to his teaching, Chris practises in the community assisting individuals, couples, families and groups from a postmodern perspective (
www.DrChristopherHall.com). He is a board member of the Global Partnership for Transformative Social Work (
www.gptsw.net) and a Taos Institute Associate (
www.TaosInstitute.net). His publications are primarily practice- and postmodern-focused, and he is currently co-editing the 4th edition of Theoretical Perspectives for Direct Social Work Practice. Past publications include chapters for the Encyclopaedia of Social Work, ‘A History of Cybernetics and Social Work Practice’ (2017) and ‘Narrative Therapy’ (2016), as well as journal articles, ‘A Narrative Case Study of Hamlet and the Cultural Construction of Western Individualism, Diagnosis, and Madness’ (2016) and ‘How Social Constructionism Could Inform the Education of Social Work Practitioners’ (2015).Gitte Haslebohas a Master of Science in Psychology from the University of Copenhagen and before that a Masters Degree in Social Psychology from the University of Kansas. Gitte is a certified specialist and supervisor in organizational psychology. In 1991 she founded the consultancy firm known as Haslebo & Partnere, which carries out consultancy assignments in Denmark and Norway based on social constructionism and inspired by systemic, appreciative and narrative approaches to consultation, leadership and organizational development. She has also developed and carried through a social constructionist training programme for more than 36 groups of managers and consultants. She is the author, co-author and co-editor of numerous books and articles on leadership and organizational development. Two books have been translated into English: G. Haslebo and K. S. Nielsen, Systems and Meaning: Consulting in Organizations (Karnac Books, 2000) and G. Haslebo and M. L. Haslebo, Practicing Relational Ethics in Organizations (Taos Institute Publications, 2012). For years she has worked as a board member of the Danish Psychological Publishing Agency and was appointed an Associate to the Taos Institute in 2008.Lorraine Hedtkeis the programme coordinator and an associate professor of counselling and guidance at California State University, San Bernardino. She is also the proprietor of The Fabula Center, a counselling and training centre. She teaches about death, dying and bereavement throughout the United States and internationally. Her work represents an exciting and unique departure from the conventional models of grief psychology. Her articles have appeared in numerous professional journals and magazines and she is the author of several books about grief. Her children's book, My Grandmother is Always with Me (2nd edn, Lulu Press, 2013), is written with her daughter, Addison Davidove. Her book, Breathing Life into the Stories of the Dead: Constructing Bereavement Support Groups (Taos Institute Publications, 2012) outlines an innovative and practical model for practice. Along with John Winslade, she is the co-author of the book Remembering Lives: Conversations with the Dying and the Bereaved (Baywood, 2004) and The Crafting of Grief: Aesthetic Responses to Loss (Routledge, 2017).Dina von Heimburgis a MSc and works as a public health coordinator in Levanger Municipality, Norway and is a PhD candidate in Sociology at Nord University, Norway. She is also an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health and Nursing at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). Her PhD research is a collaborative action research project focusing on the co-creation of social inclusion among families whose children are in kindergartens.Lone Herstedis an associate professor and works as a researcher and a lecturer at the Department of Culture and Learning at Aalborg University (Denmark). Her research is concerned with organizational learning, organizational change processes, relational leading and leadership development, action research and creativity. In particular, she is concerned with dialogically based processes for organizational learning and development. Lone has a professional background in theatre, family therapy and consultancy, and brings these experiences creatively into her work with organizational development. In 2013, together with Professor Kenneth Gergen, she wrote the book Relational Leading: Practices for Dialogically Based Collaboration, which was published in English, Danish and Japanese. In addition, she has contributed to a series of books and articles on leadership, the education of leaders, organizational learning, dialogical process, action research and creativity. Recently she edited the book Action Research in a Relational Perspective together with Ottar Ness and Søren Frimann (published by Routledge).Lois Holzmanis director of the East Side Institute, an international research and education centre for the advancement of social therapeutics and performance activism. As a proponent of postmodern, activity-theoretic, cultural approaches to human learning and development, she has championed the role of play, performance and ensemble building as central to ongoing attempts to support people to grow themselves and their communities, to humanize the mental health field and the social sciences, and to effect social change and global cultural transformation. Among her books are Vygotsky at Work and Play; Unscientific Psychology: A Cultural-Performatory Approach to Understanding Human Life (with Fred Newman); and The Overweight Brain: How Our Obsession with Knowing Keeps us from Getting Smart Enough to Make a Better World.David Anderson Hookeris Professor of the Practice of Conflict Transformation and Peacebuilding at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies in the University of Notre Dame's Keough School of Global Affairs. His practice spans more than 30 years as mediator, restorative justice practitioner, trainer, leadership
