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Harlene Anderson, Ph.D.Houston Galveston InstituteTaos Institute
Sylvia London M.A
Irma (Neca) Rodriguez
Margarita TarragonaGrupo Campos Eliseos
www.harleneanderson.orgwww.grupocamposeliseos.com
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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. (2102) Collaborative relationships & dialogic conversations: Ideas for a relationallyresponsive practice. Family Process. 51(1):8-24.
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Anderson, H. & Gehart, D. (2007) Collaborative Therapy: Relationships and Conversations thatmake A Difference. New York: Routledge.
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More Readings
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Sampson, E.E. (2008) Celebrating the Other: A Dialogic Account of Human Nature. Chagrin Falls, OH: TaosInstitute Publications.
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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.
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