ISI Handout, English. a Collaborative Aproach to Practices. Relationships and Conversations That Make a Difference

7/29/2019 ISI Handout, English. a Collaborative Aproach to Practices. Relationships and Conversations That Make a Difference

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Harlene Anderson, Ph.D.Houston Galveston InstituteTaos Institute

Sylvia London M.A

Irma (Neca) Rodriguez

Margarita TarragonaGrupo Campos Eliseos

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1. Maintain skepticism

2. Avoid generalizations

3. Privilege local knowledge

4. Knowledge as interactive social process

5. Language as a creative social process

6. Knowledge & language as transforming

7. Everyday ordinary life


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A particular way in which we orient ourselves

to be, respond and act with another personthat invites the other into sharedengagement and joint action.

A relationship in which people connect,collaborate and create with each other. A social activitya communityin which

members become conversational partners whowork, create and learn together.


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Appreciating and equally valuing the truth,knowledge, experience and capabilities that

each person brings. Engaging the other to have a sense ofparticipation, belonging, ownership,accountability and joint responsibility.

Collaborating invites imagination andcreativity and therefore is inherentlygenerative.


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A particular kind of dialogue or form of talk in

which participants engage with each other (outloud) and with themselves (silently)in words or

gestures--in a mutual or shared inquiry about the

issues at hand: jointly examining, questioning,

wondering, reflecting, etc. A process that involves speaking, listening and

hearing.


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Dialogue is a process of trying to understand theother.

Understanding is an active process not apassive one. Rather than understanding another persons

words from a theory, try to understand byresponding to learn.

Check-out to see if you have heard what theother wants you to hear.

Develop local understandings that come fromwithin the conversation.


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Dialogue requires becoming human.

Transformationwhether in meaning,understanding, thought oraction--isinevitable, inherent and unpredictable indialogue.

Therapy is a dialogically-structuredactivity.


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Human systems are language, meaning-generating systems.

Process is dynamic, evolving and non-formulaic.

Focus shifts from the individual or group

toperson(s)-in-relationship. Focus shifts from thinking about

systems to thinking systemically.


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A way of being with

(not a technique or method)

A posture, an attitude, and a tone that reflects a way ofbeing in relationship and conversation with people,including a way of thinking, talking, acting, and beingresponsive with them.

Consistent with this view, the philosophical stancebecomes a philosophy of lifea worldview that does notseparate professional and personal.


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Conversational Partners in

1. Shared inquiry

2. Relational expertise

3. Not-knowing

4. Being public

5. Mutually transforming6. Uncertainty

7. Everyday ordinary life


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Approach each relationship & situation as

unique.

Assume responsibility for inviting collaborativerelationships (context) & dialogicalconversations (process).

Allow the client to be center stage.

Offer questions, opinions, speculations orsuggestions as way of participating in theconversation & in a tentative manner.

Do not assume or understand too quickly, butrather as a curious learner.


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Maintains a dialogical conversation with him- or

herself, as a first step toward dialogue. Keeps inquiry within the parameters of the

agenda.

Entertains multiple & contradictory ideassimultaneously.

Uses coherent language.

Responsively listens, talks & hears.


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Creates space for others to listen and speak;

Accesses inner silent thoughts and put them into spoken words;

Highlights the multiple angles from which any information, event orperson can be experienced, described or explained;

Highlights the richness of different voices: a person may hold multiple,and contradictory, thoughts simultaneously about any situation or

person; Invites respectful talk about a person in their presence;

Invites conversations that in turn invite the other person into them;

Highlights that it is not necessary to strive for consensus or a product.


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Presenter(s) What is your agenda, expectation or hope?

List the cast of characters. Tell us what you think we need to know.

Listeners Listen as a character. Hold your questions & comments.


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Anderson, H. & Gehart, D. (2007) Collaborative Therapy: Relationships and Conversations thatmake A Difference. New York: Routledge.

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Gergen, K.J. (1999)An invitation to social construction. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.

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More Readings

Mezirow, Jack & Associates. (2000) Learning as Transformation: Critical Perspectives on a Theory inProgress. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.

Sampson, E.E. (2008) Celebrating the Other: A Dialogic Account of Human Nature. Chagrin Falls, OH: TaosInstitute Publications.

Schon, D. (1983) The Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think in Action. New York: Basic Books.

Seikkula, J. & Olson, M. (2003) The open dialogue approach to acute psychosis. Family Process, 42:403-418.

Sermijn, J., Devlieger, P. & Loots, G. (2008) The narrative construction of the self: Selfhood as a rhizomaticstory. Qualitative Inquiry. http://qix.sagepub.com.

Shotter, J. (2011) Instead of cool reason: Systemic thinking and thinking aboutsystems. Paper presentedat the 2011 European Family Therapy Association Annual Conference.

Shotter, J. (2008) Conversational Realities Revisited: Life, Language, Body and World. Chagrin Falls, OH:Taos Institute Publications.

Sparrman, M. (2011) Polyvision Supervision. International Journal of Collaborative Practices.Trevarthen, C. (2004) Learning about ourselves from children: Why a growing human brain needs

interesting companions. Research and Clinical Centre for Child Development Annual report 2002-2003(No. 26, 9-44). Hokkaido University: Graduate School of Education.

Vygotsky, L. (1986) Thought & Language. Trans. Newly revised by Alex Kozulin. Cambridge, MA: MITPress.

Wittgenstein, L. (1953) Philosophical Investigations. Oxford: Blackwell.

See: Publications on www.harleneanderson.org and www.access-success.comSee: Dissertations: by Janice DeFehr and Bill Blaine Wallace on www.taosinstitute.org
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