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moved on to child and adolescent psychiatric services, and then to outreaching services for drug users. She was consulting for the County Office of Education on special needs education before she became the head of YouthInvest 1998, a post she still holds. Ingebjørg has conducted a lot of seminars and workshops at universities and conferences. She has cooperated with the University College of Southeast Norway 2012–2016 and developed a session-based University programme based on Appreciative Inquiry and other strength-based approaches. This study programme is now connected to Norwegian Technology University (NTNU) where Ingebjørg lectures occasionally. She has been a politician for eight years in a local Municipality and was also leader of the Board of Education and Social Challenges. She has been a board member in a bank (Sparebanken Øst) and in the board of public transport.Robert J. Marshakis Distinguished Scholar in Residence Emeritus, School of Public Affairs, American University and has consulted with managers and executives around the world for more than 40 years. Marshak's contributions to the field of organization development have been recognized by numerous awards, including the Organization Development Network's Lifetime Achievement Award and the Distinguished Educator Award from the Organization Development and Change Division of the Academy of Management. He is the co-editor of Dialogic Organization Development: The Theory and Practice of Transformational Change (2015). His latest book is Dialogic Process Consultation: Generative Meaning Making in Action (2020). A chapter about him and his work is included in The Palgrave Handbook of Organizational Change Thinkers (2017).Natalie B. Mayis Associate Professor of Research in the University of Virginia School of Medicine and the UVA School of Nursing. She has co-authored several books and chapters on appreciative inquiry in healthcare, including Appreciative Inquiry in Healthcare: Positive Questions to Bring Out Your Best and Choosing Wisdom. She is a founding faculty member in the UVA Center for Appreciative Practice.M. L. Papusa Molinaholds a PhD in Educational Leadership – with an emphasis on Women's Studies, Public Administration and Chicano Studies – and an MA in Education and Development, the University of Iowa. She is the Executive Director and Professor of Inquiry at Kanankil Institute; Guest Professor at the Houston Galveston Institute; and Associate and member of the Relational Research Network of the Taos Institute. Previously she was the Coordinator for Academic Development at Universidad de Oriente; General Director of the National Institute in Mexico; James Watson Irwin Distinguished Chair in Women's Studies at Hamilton College; Professor in the Feminism and Spirituality MA Program at the San Francisco Institute for Integral Studies; and co-founder of Women Against Racism. Her early publications and research focused on the intersections of gender, race, class and sexuality; recently she has been engaged with issues of inquiry from a collaborative-dialogic perspective.Gerald Monkis Professor in the Department of Counseling and School Psychology at San Diego State University. Gerald is a practising Marriage and Family Therapist and mediator in private practice in San Diego, California. Gerald has a strong interest in the theory and practice of narrative therapy and narrative mediation. Currently, he works with couples and families utilizing a social constructionist orientation and the theoretical developments connected to the affective-discursive turn. His latest co-authored book is Intercultural Counseling: Bridging the Us and Them Divide (Cognella Publishing, 2020).Haesun Moonis a leading expert and educator on coaching and the use of language in transforming workplace dialogues leading to social change. Her academic and professional research in coaching dialogues and pedagogy from the University of Toronto introduced a simple heuristics of interactions, the Dialogic Orientation Quadrant (DOQ), that has transformed the way people coach and learn coaching worldwide. Haesun teaches Brief Coaching at the University of Toronto and serves as Executive Director at the Canadian Centre for Brief Coaching. She resides in Toronto with her family and her beloved dog, Kito.Edgardo Morales-Arandesis a Taos Associate and Professor in the Graduate Psychology Program at the University of Puerto Rico. In his practice as a therapist and consultant, he has explored the uses of performance, imagination, dialogue, and presence as relational resources that can serve to promote generative change in individuals, couples, families, and organizations. As a researcher, he is currently examining the ways through which autoethnography can help students generate meaningful and imaginative personal narratives that can subvert dominant accounts of marginalization, oppression, and enforced silence while highlighting the transformative possibilities of evocative storytelling. Along with his professional, academic, and personal pursuits, Edgardo has been accompanied by a practice of mindfulness meditation which he began more than 45 years ago, and which still continues to be a vital presence in his life. He is also Academic Co-Director of the Diploma on the Generative Perspective and Practice co-sponsored by Fundación Interfas in Argentina and the Taos Institute.Murilo S. Moschetais a licensed psychologist and Professor of Psychology, Gender and Sexuality at the Estate University of Maringá (Brazil). For many years, he has worked in a variety of institutional contexts on the development of relational resources for inclusive healthcare practices with respect to the LGBT population in Brazil. As a researcher, he has worked and published on narrative counselling, dialogue facilitation and healthcare workers’ training in gender and sexuality. He is the founder of DeVERSO, a research and intervention group on sexuality, health and policy, and is associate editor of the Brazilian journal Psicologia em Estudo. His latest book is A Dimensão Política do Pesquisar o Cotidiano [The Political Dimension in Researching Everyday Life] (with Laura Vilela e Souza and Emerson F. Rasera, 2020).Tanya Mudryis a PhD, Psychologist and Assistant Professor in Counselling Psychology at the University of Calgary. She practises from a postmodern, collaborative, family therapy perspective, with a research focus on discursive, practice-oriented and systemic approaches to research. Her research has focused on therapy practices, excessive behaviours, addiction and recovery from addiction, and other health concerns. Among Tanya's articles and chapters, are ‘The Psychological Underpinnings of Addictive Behaviours’, in N. el-Guebaly and H. Tavares (Eds.), Textbook of Addiction Treatment: International Perspectives, and ‘A Life History of a PIP: Snapshots in Time’, in K. Tomm, S. St. George, D. Wulff and T. Strong (Eds.), Patterns in Interpersonal Interactions: Inviting Relational Understandings for Therapeutic Change.Pavel Nepustillives and works in Brno, Czech Republic. He is a therapist, supervisor and trainer with a special focus on substance use and addiction from a relational perspective. He co-founded the Recovery Brno group, an association of people with their own or family experience with addiction and the Narativ group that promotes the development of collaborative and dialogical practices in the Czech Republic. He co-established several innovative projects in Brno aimed at social integration, housing and recovery support. His book Recovered without Treatment: The Process of Abandoning Crystal Meth Use without Professional Help is available in Czech and English.Janet Newburyteaches and conducts research in the School of Child and Youth Care at the University of Victoria, where she is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the Faculty of Graduate Studies. She has worked in group homes, schools, camps, an after-school programme, an orphanage, and a family resource centre, and as a family initiatives worker and family enhancement worker. She currently sits on a number of boards, conducts community-engaged research related to children and families, and is actively involved in a range of intergenerational initiatives. The focus of her research and practice is primarily on fostering the structural conditions that contribute to wellness for children, young people and families. Organizing economic, social and political realities such that barriers can be removed and opportunities created for children and families to thrive has been a key focus of most of her involvements – with a particular interest in contributing to decolonization efforts.Ottar Nessis Professor of Counselling at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Professor of Mental Healthcare at the University of South-Eastern Norway. He is also a senior advisor at the Norwegian Competence Centre for Mental Healthcare. He has been working with collaborative action research projects within the fields of family therapy, mental health and substance abuse recovery and community work. Among his latest books are the co-edited books Action Research in a Relational Perspective together with Lone Hersted and Søren Frimann (Routledge), and Beyond the Therapeutic State together with Del Loewenthal and Billy Hardy (Routledge).Margaret Plews-Oganis Professor of Medicine at the University of Virginia. As a wisdom researcher, she has developed and implemented innovative curricula and programmes to foster wisdom in medical students and throughout the health system. She has authored several books and chapters on wisdom in healthcare, including Choosing Wisdom: Strategies and Inspiration for Growing Through Life-Changing Difficulties. With Gene Beyt, she edited Wisdom Leadership in Academic Health Science Centers: Leading Positive Change.W. Ellen Raboinis a Senior Organization Development Specialist