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and community peacebuilder working throughout Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, and the (united) States of America. Hooker's primary research investigates the social and narrative construction of complex identities; the role of multigenerational trauma in the formation of interpersonal and communal relationships, systems and structures; and the various models and approaches to truth-telling as mechanisms for approaching justice, quality peace, and societal reconciliation. He is the co-author (with Amy Potter-Czaijkowski) of Transforming Historical Harms (Eastern Mennonite, 2012) and author of The Little Book of Transformative Community Conferencing (SkyHorse 2016), as well as several other book chapters and journal articles.Carsten Hornstrupis an experienced consultant and leader and is regarded as an expert on public sector development. In later years he has focused on Relational Capacity as a way of integrating systematic evaluations in highly complex cases with dialogical practices. He holds a PhD in Relational Leadership and has published seven books and several books and articles. He is currently the director and founder of Joint Action Analytics and is associated with Aarhus University's research centre for public leadership as well as chairing the board of the RCRC (Relational Coordination Research Collaborative) at Brandeis University, Boston.Marie L. Hoskinsis Professor Emeritus in the School of Child and Youth Care (Faculty of Human and Social Development) at the University of Victoria, Canada. She has held several administrative positions and sat on several boards over the years. She has published in a wide range of journals including Mediation Quarterly, Qualitative Inquiry, The Journal of Constructivist Psychology, Constructivism and Human Sciences, the Canadian Journal of Counselling, Qualitative Inquiry, the Child and Youth Care Forum, to name just a few. Her teaching focus has been in the area of human change processes, girls’ identity challenges and various modes of interpretive inquiry. She has been the principal investigator on two large Social Sciences and Humanities Research Projects (SSHRC), one focused on eating disorders and processes of change, the other focused on the relationships between culture, substance use and transformation. She is a former member of the coordinating team for the Child Soldier Initiative led by Rt. General Romeo Dallaire.Johan Hovelynckworks as a self-employed process consultant and is part-time lecturer at the Leuven University (Belgium). With a background in Organizational and Community Psychology (KU Leuven) and in Adult Education (VU Brussels), Johan facilitates group and organizational development processes in various profit and social-profit settings, including multi-actor collaboration in different governance domains. His action research on facilitating relational learning in those fields provides an additional basis for teaching group dynamics and group decision-making at the KU Leuven Center for Organisational Psychology and Professional Learning.Elizabeth Jamesonis an artist who specializes in the intersection of art and science. Her artwork creates interest and curiosity about the imperfect body, and her work serves as an invitation to open up conversations about what it means to have an illness or disability as part of the universal human experience. She is an artist, a writer and a former public interest lawyer; she has written about illness and disability in publications such as the New York Times, British Medical Journal and WIRED magazine. Her work is part of permanent collections including the National Institutes of Health, major universities and medical schools throughout the nation. In 2016, she delivered a TedX talk, ‘Learning to Celebrate and Embrace Our Imperfect Bodies’.Arlene M. Katzis a Taos Associate and mentor of many Taos PhD students. She is also a Lecturer in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and teaches cross-cultural care in their residency programme at the Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA). A published poet, photographer and videographer, Dr Katz uses social poetics (Hearing the patient's ‘voice’: Toward a social poetics in diagnostic interviews. Social Science Medicine, Katz and Shotter, 1996) to explore the space between health and the humanities. Her work emphasizes the importance of hearing the ‘voice’ of patient and community, making visible the moral dimensions of care and suffering. Former Director of CHA's Community Councils Project, she worked with community elders and health professionals to address ageism by developing a ‘Council of Elders’ to make visible the lived experience of aging (A council of elders: Creating a multi-voiced dialogue in a community of care. Social Science and Medicine, Katz, Conant et al., 2000). This has developed into a series of participatory ethnographic publications and research projects, co-creating ‘resourceful communities’ of those involved in healthcare.Jenny Leeis the executive director of Allied Media Projects (AMP), where she has worked in various capacities since 2006. Over this period she led the healthy growth and evolution of the organization through facilitative leadership, innovative programme design, and network cultivation. She honed the theory and practice of media-based organizing that is at the core of AMP's work. Jenny represents AMP within city-wide and national initiatives to advance the fields of media, art, technology and social justice. She currently serves on the leadership team of the national Art x Culture x Social Justice Network. In 2015 she was a Detroit Equity Action Lab fellow and from 2008 to 2012 she served on the national steering committee of INCITE! Women of Color Against Violence. Jenny graduated from the University of Michigan with a BA in Comparative Literature in 2005. She is a mom, a dancer and a motorcycle rider.Barbara E. Lewisis a co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Center for Positive Change and a consulting partner of the Corporation for Positive Change. She is widely respected for designing and facilitating creative processes to engage diverse stakeholders in collaborative decision-making on everything from community visioning to water resources planning to priority setting. In 2000, experiencing first-hand the authentic connections, joyful experience and shared commitment produced by Appreciative Inquiry (AI), she made AI the primary model of her work. She is co-editor of The Promise of Appreciative Cities: Compelling the Whole to Act, an edition of the Appreciative Inquiry Practitioner. Her work has been recognized with multiple awards – most recently the Greater Good Award from the International Association for Public Participation (IAP2) for her contributions to the field.Rolla E. Lewisis Professor Emeritus in Educational Psychology at California State University, East Bay (CSUEB). His current research and scholarly interests include public education advocacy, participatory leadership, and using lifescaping action research practices and participatory inquiry process (PIP) in ways that enhance school communities, student learning power, wellness, and connectedness to the living environment. He was School Counseling Coordinator at Portland State University (PSU), 1995–2006, and at CSUEB, 2006–2014. He is an active Associate of the Taos Institute. Dr Lewis has published numerous chapters, articles and poems in books, peer-reviewed journals and other publications, such as R. E. Lewis and P. Winkelman, Lifescaping Practices in School Communities: Implementing Action Research and Appreciative Inquiry (Routledge, 2017). He is the recipient of the Oregon Counseling Association's Leona Tyler Award for outstanding contributions to professional counselling. He may be reached at [email protected] Lugois a psychologist, with a Masters degree in Public Health, and a PhD in Social Sciences (Tilburg University). She is currently on faculty at the Universidad de Caldas in Manizales, Colombia, the director of the Master program in Social Justice and Peace Building and the editor of “Eleuthera”, an international journal about human and social development. Her research interests focus on social constructionist ideas applied to conflict transformation and restoration with survivors from armed conflict. Her doctoral dissertation was titled ‘Disarmed Warriors: Narratives with Youth ex-Combatants in Colombia’. During 2019, she was the national director of the study ‘Creating Political Abilities for Transitions in Local Territories’, a Participatory Action Research project located in six municipalities affected by armed conflict in Colombia.Gro Emmertsen Lundis an independent consultant and researcher and part of NOISE; Network of Independent Scholars in Education. She holds a PhD from Twente University, an MA in Evaluation from the University of Southern Denmark and a BA degree in Educational Science from University College of Southern Denmark. Her research on social exclusionary processes in schools has played a pivotal role in school development and practices of responding to interactive troubles. As a keynote speaker in Denmark, Norway, Estonia, The Faroe Islands and the United States, she shares her research as well as exploring implications for praxis. As a Taos Associate she has arranged international conferences in the Nordic countries. She is a published author and serves as a co-serial editor for the series Relational Pedagogy at the Danish Psychological Publisher. As an organizational consultant Gro works with organizational learning and improvement, leadership, organizational membership and cultural change processes.Ingebjørg Mælandholds a Social Science and Masters degree in Educational Leadership. She has been working for over 40 years with young people in Norway. She started as a social worker in the