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HARLENE’S TRAVELS TO YOUR PART OF THE WORLD
October 2025-Norway
SMISO NGO
October 2025- Tokyo & Okinawa, Japan
Japan Marriage and Family Association Annual Conference
2026- Santiago, Chile
What's New?
Upcoming Events
HARLENE’S TRAVELS TO YOUR PART OF THE WORLD
30th and 31st October 2025
2nd Congress
new
paradigms in
Mental Health
- Cala Millor, Mallorca
Dialogues for mental health -Relations that transform
Under this title, we want to make known theoretical frameworks and initiatives in the
field of mental health and social intervention that emphasize community
connection, personal relationships and the full participation of affected people and
their environment in everything related to their lives, listening equally to all the
voices involved and building enriching and respectful relationships that help
transform both psychological suffering and the community.
October 2025- Tokyo & Okinawa, Japan
Japan Marriage and Family Association Annual Conference.
Workshop Title and Introduction
Harlene Anderson, one of the founders of the “Collaborative Approach” (also called Collaborative-Dialogic Practice), which developed by incorporating ideas from family therapy and social constructionism, and co-founder of the Houston Galveston Institute and the Taos Institute, will be invited to Japan. In October 2025, she will hold a three-day workshop (WS) in Tokyo.
Recently, she has also been active internationally as a trainer at Open Dialogue Pacific. To learn the essence of Open Dialogue, it is very beneficial to learn from the Collaborative approach. In this WS, participants will learn the basics of the Collaborative approach, experience demonstration sessions conducted by Harlene herself, and join dialogue-style sessions with other dialogue partners.
Language: Japanese & English (with interpretation/translation)
New Chinese Edition Published
Conversation, Language, and Possibilities is now available in a new Simplified Chinese edition, published by Shanghai Sanlian Bookstore in July 2025. Although the book itself is not new, this translation opens space for more conversations with Chinese-speaking readers. Harlene Anderson’s work invites us into dialogue—where language becomes a shared path, and where new possibilities for understanding and change can emerge together.
Thank you for joining us
Past Events
Saturday, August 23
Free Online Symposium to Celebrate Release of the Spanish Edition
Relaciones y conversaciones que marcan una diferencia en distintos contextos y culturas
Harlene Anderson, Diane Gehart . TAYLOR & FRANCIS GROUP, LLC
Saturday, August 23
9:00–11:00 AM Pacific (Los Angeles)
11:00 AM–1:00 PM Central (Houston, Mexico City)
12:00–2:00 PM Eastern (New York)
18:00–20:00 CET (Madrid)
25 e 26 de abril de 2025 - Moema, São Paulo, Brazil
INTERFACI convida para o workshop presencial com HARLENE ANDERSON:
”Criando Relações e Conversações Transformadoras em direção a resultados bem sucedidos”
Local: Hotel Meliá Ibirapuera (Av. Ibirapuera, 2534 – Moema, São Paulo)
2 - 5 April 2025 - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
This event brings together practitioners, researchers, educators, and community members committed to exploring and advancing dialogical approaches across different domains. It offers a unique opportunity to engage in meaningful conversations, share innovative practices, and harness the transformative power of dialogue.
September 5th -7th, 2024 -Marburg, Germany
September-Marburg, Germany
How to create dialogical contexts
Marburg Institute Summer Conference on Dialogue
September 5th-7th
September 10 -11, 2024 -Bilbao & San Sebastian, Spain
10 de septiembre – 10:00 – 13:00
Conversaciones colaborativo – dialógicas en contextos de dificultad social.
Workshop – Harlene Anderson. <br>
DONOSTIA – SAN SEBASTIÁN
11 de septiembre – 10:00 – 13:00
Masterclass Harlene Anderson: Introducción a las Prácticas Colaborativas y
Dialógicas
HARLENE’S TRAVELS TO YOUR PART OF THE WORLD
We can’t say “post-Covid” because its still with us, but we can say “as Covid wanes and is being controlled around the world,” some life rituals have revived, and some have been reinvented.
2024 Recent and Future Trainings offered by Harlene Anderson
I have provided online training to several ICCP programs with focuses on CDP philosophical stance and basic assumptions, reflecting processes, ethics, and consultations.
May-Beijing
In May Harlene Anderson had the privilege and honor to be in Beijing, China to present the plenary (Withness Practice: Moving from ‘I and ‘You’ to ‘We’) and participate in the Eighth Academic Conference on Traditional Chinese Culture and Postmodern Psychology: Organized by Institute of Psychology, China Academy of Science and sponsored by Venus Company. Harlene also met with the founder, some directors, and employees at Venus Company. Amazingly, this company’s operating philosophy is based on postmodern psychology and collaborative-dialogic practice. She experienced their culture and can verify they ‘walk-their-talk’. We are grateful to psychologist Haibo Zeng for introducing CDP to this growing community in China. To learn more please see: http://www.venusense.com/ and https://www.routledge.com/Collaborative-Dialogic-Practice-Relationships-and-Conversations-that-Make-a-Difference-Across-Contexts-and-Cultures/Anderson-Gehart/p/book/9780367741471
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL COLLABORATIVE PRACTICES
Good news: Issue 13, International Journal Collaborative Practice (IJCP) is now online. Please notice the new URL: https://journal.lib.uoguelph.ca/index.php/ijcdp/index. Please also note the link for archived journal issues is within this link. Errors in this issue will be noted and corrected (please see Errata in Issue 14).
Our sincere apology and generous thank you to authors who have been patiently waiting for articles submitted and accepted long ago to be published. No excuses.
IJCP is hosted by Houston Galveston Institute, MacLaughlin Library, Un. of Guelph and The Taos Institute. The Taos Institute has generously sponsored the journal since its inception and we are grateful for their support. The MacLaughlin Library has an online journal publication system that will streamline our publication process and we are grateful they agreed to include IJCP in their repertoire. We thank the Library for their expertise and help with this migration and a special thank you to the Maplewoods Centre for Family Therapy and Child Psychology (University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada) https://www.uoguelph.ca/maplewoods/. The Centre joins the Houston Galveston Institute and the Taos Institute as hosts for the journal.
IJCP is a volunteer project. This migration and the publication of Issue 13 was made possible with the generous help of Co-Editor Saliha Bava, Managing Editor Mary Louisa (Papusa) Molina, Daniel Wulff, the staff of the McLaughlin Library media services, and numerous volunteers.
Please volunteer to assist with the journal (we need: translators for Spanish and Chinese languages to English, article reviewers, article line editors, and social media promotion posts).
Thank you,
Harlene Anderson
Saliha Bava
Co-Editor
Papusa Molina
Managing Editor
CHRISTOPHER KINMAN
Many have met humanitarian Chris Kinman (in-person or through his writings, website, and his academic and art contributions to diverse communities). Chris was a valued colleague of Lynn Hoffman. To learn more about Chris and his contributions to this planet and people on it please see: https://www.taosinstitute.net/about-us/people/institute-associates/canada/british-columbia/christopher-j-kinman
For several years Chris has lived with kidney disease and been on a waiting list for a kidney transplant. British Columbia Canadian colleagues Drew Moore, Arden Henley, Jeffrey Borden, and Margarie Gobie created and manage a fund to help its beneficiary Chris Kinman during his incredibly difficult and expensive journey. To learn more about Chris and his complex kidney disease challenge please and the fund please see:
Please reach into your heart and contribute to the efforts to support Chris’s journey to better health and life, and to continue his humanitarian journey. Any donation, small or large is appreciated. To donate: https://www.gofundme.com/f/christopher-kinman
CREATIVE RESIDENCY GRANT
If you need a place for creative thinking and writing, check out the Orcas Hotel (San Juan Islands) Creative Residency Grant:
https://www.orcashotel.com/winter-residency-creative-grant
DIANE GEHART HAS A NEW TED TALK
Diane Gehart has a new Ted Talk https://www.dianegehart.com/TEDx: Mental Health Unmasked: Unveiling the Secrets to… Diane, author, professor, therapist, is the coeditor with Harlene Anderson of Collaborative Therapy and Collaborative-Dialogic Practice (Routledge 2007 and 2023 respectively). She creatively puts her key points in everyday language, making them accessible. Please take a look.
February 1-3, 2024 – 11:00am-2:00pm EST each day
A 3-day online seminar with Taos Institute Vice-President Sheila McNamee and Taos Institute Board Member Harlene Anderson
Note: Certificate of participation available upon request for CEUs
Dialogic and Collaborative Practices
Have you ever wondered how to engage with curiosity when faced with different views, beliefs, and ideas? If so, we invite you to join us in February for a practical seminar embracing relational, dialogic, and collaborative resources for dealing with difference.
In this online, hands-on, intensive seminar (three hours each day), Harlene and Sheila introduce and discuss constructionist theory, dialogue, and collaborative practices. Given the challenges we confront globally, discussions will center specifically on the practical implications and applications of a dialogic and collaborative stance. In addition to demonstrations, there is ample space for everyone to share, interact, collaborate and support one another as we explore ways to bring these practices into participants’ own projects and personal or professional contexts.
Whether you are familiar with social construction and relational practices or new to these ideas, this intimate, intensive seminar is sure to make you feel welcomed and inspired. The small-group, virtual environment offers an opportunity to be in conversation with a diverse group of individuals from around the globe, who are working or who would like to work in relational ways. Three group meetings as well as a private group discussion forum gives you a chance to forge deep connections and to practice relational approaches — resulting in a transformational experience.
Readings and other resource materials will be provided prior to the course.
Highlights:
- An interactive and collaborative environment where everyone engages in co-creating new knowledge
- Customized discussions on how each participant can bring social construction, dialogue and collaborative approaches into their own work and life
- Participants from around the world who enrich the dialogue with diverse perspectives
- A small-group, intimate learning experience that generates long-lasting relationships