The Sage Handbook of Social Constructionist Practice. Группа авторов
of Positive Questions. In addition, she has written more than a dozen articles and book chapters.Paul N. Uhligis a cardiothoracic surgeon, and associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the University of Kansas School of Medicine – Wichita, Kansas. His professional interests include collaborative care with active engagement of patients and families, interprofessional education, healthcare simulation/experiential learning, and patient safety. His research and teaching utilize social science methods to study and transform healthcare practice culture. He is a Co-Founder of the Collaborative Care Learning Network and an Associate of the Taos Institute.Ilene C. Wassermanis President of ICW Consulting, has over 30 years of experience in Leadership Development, Executive Coaching and Organizational Consulting. Ilene helps her clients leverage multiple dimensions of domestic and global diversity by enhancing communication and collaboration. Ilene takes a strengths-based, action learning approach, aligning goals, behaviours and actions. Consultations have included retreats for leadership teams, developing internal work teams and leading large strategic change initiatives. In addition to consulting and coaching, Ilene teaches at the graduate level. She is a Senior Leadership Fellow at the McNulty Leadership Program at the Wharton School, an executive coach with Wharton Executive Education and faculty at PCOM. Ilene holds a PhD in Human and Organizational Development, and a Masters in Counselling Psychology and Social Work. She is the author of Communicating Possibilities: A Brief Introduction to the Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) and Peer Coaching at Work: Principles and Practices.Peter Whitehouseis a Professor of Neurology and former/current professor of Psychiatry, Psychology, Cognitive Science, Neuroscience, Bioethics, History, Nursing and Organizational Behaviour at Case Western Reserve University, Professor of Medicine at the University of Toronto, Honorary Research Fellow at Oxford University and Founding President of Intergenerational Schools International. He received his undergraduate degree from Brown University and MD-PhD (Psychology) from The Johns Hopkins University, followed by a Fellowship in Neuroscience and Psychiatry and a faculty appointment at Hopkins. His current main foci are on ecopsychosocial models of brain health and aging and the role of the arts and humanities in health. Peter considers himself a wising-up, intergenerative, transdisciplinary, action-oriented scholar and emerging artist. And he believes in the magic of relationships too.Diana Whitneyis an internationally acclaimed consultant, writer and inspirational speaker working at the forefront of the fields of dialogic organization development and positive social change. Dr Whitney is best known for her work applying Appreciative Inquiry and Appreciative Leadership to strategic large-scale organization culture change. She is an executive advisor, founder of the Corporation for Positive Change and co-founder of the Taos Institute. She is an award-winning author of 20 books and dozens of chapters and articles. Her books include The Power of Appreciative Inquiry: A Practical Guide to Positive Change; Appreciative Leadership: Focus on What Works to Drive Winning Performance and Build a Thriving Organization; and most recently, Thriving Women, Thriving World: An Invitation to Dialogue, Healing and Inspired Actions.Michael Williamsis Head of Guidance and Counselling at Edgewater College, a co-educational, multicultural high school in Auckland, New Zealand. He first used Undercover Anti-bullying Teams in 2004 and has since used them successfully over 60 times. His partnership with John Winslade goes back nearly 20 years and together they have written many journal articles on Undercover Anti-bullying Teams and co-authored Safe and Peaceful Schools in 2012. Michael has a Masters degree in Education from the University of Waikato, the place where their friendship began. He continues to speak nationally and internationally on topics related to narrative approaches to conflict resolution and reintegration after disciplinary actions, and consults with schools about whole school approaches to creating safe and peaceful school communities.Morgan Mann Willismakes room for media-based organizing work to thrive. Morgan is the past associate director at Allied Media Projects, where she produced the Allied Media Conference for seven years. As an independent consultant, Morgan works with creative projects and community-driven organizations to clarify their vision, strengthen leadership and make room for them to sustainably flourish. In 2016 she edited bklyn boihood's IPPY-award winning anthology, Outside the XY: Queer, Black and Brown Masculinity. In 2017, Morgan was the inaugural Roxane Gay fellow at the Jack Jones Literary Arts Retreat, where she worked on her forthcoming novel, Politics from Nowhere. More often than not her heart is camping in Idlewild, Michigan and with her two nieces.John Winsladeis an Emeritus Professor of Counseling at California State University, San Bernardino. He was formerly Director of Counselor Education at the University of Waikato in New Zealand and Coordinator of Counseling Programs at California State University San Bernardino. Also at California State University San Bernardino he was the Associate Dean of the College of Education. He is the co-author of 12 books on narrative mediation and narrative practice, as well as many articles and has taught workshops on narrative practice in 25 countries. Since he is now retired, he lives in New Zealand to be closer to his family.Stanley L. Witkinis Emeritus Professor of Social Work at the University of Vermont and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Social Policy & Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the co-founder (with Dennis Saleebey) and current president of the Global Partnership for Transformative Social Work (www.gptsw.net), an organization that uses social constructionist and related dialogues to explore ways of enriching relationships that support the generation of just and sustainable futures. In addition to several journal publications and book chapters, recent books include: Transforming Social Work: Social Constructionist Perspectives on Contemporary and Enduring Issues (Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), Narrating Social Work Through Autoethnography (Columbia University Press, 2014) and Social Construction and Social Work Practice: Interpretations and Innovations (Columbia University Press, 2011). Presently, Stanley lives in Charlottesville, Virginia with his spouse, Frannie, and their precocious dog, Pekoe.Dan Wulffis a Professor in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary and has served as a Family Therapist and Clinical Supervisor at the Calgary Family Therapy Centre for the past 12 years. He has recently incorporated the examination of societal discourses and the impacts of material life conditions into his work with families. Dan also serves on the Boards of Directors for the Taos Institute and the Global Partnership for Transformative Social Work as well as serving as a Co-Editor of The Qualitative Report. Dan teaches graduate-level social work practice and research courses and has taught post-structural family therapy at Blue Quills College and Grande Prairie Regional College, both in northern Alberta.Danielle P. Zandeeis Professor of Sustainable Organizational Development at Nyenrode Business Universiteit in the Netherlands. She obtained her PhD in Organizational Behavior at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland. As a scholar-practitioner, Danielle facilitates change and conducts action research for social innovation in settings like Dutch healthcare organizations, municipalities and the fire service. She does so from a critical appreciative stance with a keen interest in the micro-dynamics of change. Danielle has published about appreciative inquiry as action research, organizational discourse and institutional change, and about how organization development can help handle the grand challenges of our time. Danielle is a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science and the Journal of Management Inquiry. She is an active member of the Academy of Management and Past Chair of its Organization Development & Change Division.
Editors’ Introduction
Dialogues on the social construction of knowledge, beliefs and values have played a catalytic role in scholarly life for over 50 years. They have represented a liberation from a narrow scientism, a sensitizing to the ideological dimensions of scholarly work, and an invitation to boundary-breaking exploration. However, the reach of constructionist ideas has extended far beyond the halls of academia, and indeed, stirred the interests of professionals and lay persons around the world. New dialogues have sprung to life within and across such professions as psychotherapy, education, organizational consulting, and medicine. Inspiration has been added by groups engaged in community building, civic governance and conflict reduction. Most important, these dialogues have yielded a massive harvest of innovative practices for enhancing human well-being. Such practices are the focus of the present Handbook.
Our purposes are several. At the outset, we aim to offer an array of conceptually related and innovative practices to practitioners, scholars and the public in diverse fields across the world. The hope is not only to provide information, but to offer resources that may enrich existing activities and initiatives in both professional and daily life. Further, readers