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This conference is a collaboration between Taos Institute and MacMann Berg
The Taos Institute
Based on the social constructionist theories and ideas, the Taos Institute was established in 1991 by Kenneth Gergen and a number of like-minded people. The institute is a community of instructors, theorists, and practitioners that deal with the social processes that are essential for the construction of meaning, knowledge, and human values. The Taos Institute is working to achieve their goal of researching, expanding, and disseminating ideas and practice that can advance creative, appreciative, and co-creative processes, among other things, through conferences, workshops, publications, newsletters, and a PhD programme.
MacMann Berg have been invited to take part in the dialogue and be part of sharing and developing practice and visions for the community as an “Associate of the Taos Institute”.
http://www.taosinstitute.net/
Other important contributors to the Constructing Worlds conference:
Family Care Foundation (FAMILJEVÅRDSSTIFTELSEN)
Family Care Foundation originated in 1987 from a vision of trying to create a context that is good to be in, for those we call clients, for family homes, and for professional helpers. Our practice is built upon a close collaboration between clients, family homes and professional helpers, to combine that which is called ordinary life with a therapeutic thinking and being.
Our clients are teenagers, adults and children who are referred to us since they are having such huge difficulties in life that they do not have the strenght to cope on their own.
The client stay in one of our family homes for a time in their life and during that time both client and family home get support from some of our therapists. We also work with the network in different ways.
We keep in touch with colleagues in many different fields of practice and believe in the importance of building networks. For more information; www.familjevardsstiftelsen.se
NovaBerg
NovaBerg is a Danish consultancy that works with systemic evaluation in both the public and private sector. NovaBerg works with a great diversity of evaluations both on institutional and strategic levels. The evaluations always have development of practise as a crucial focus. For us evaluation is a strong tool of creating innovation and positive development of organisations and through that guide the future instead of only measuring the past.
Read more about NovaBerg and Systemic Evaluation at: www.novaberg.dk
Humap
In Humap’s coaching and consultation we enjoy mixing different people, objects of enthusiasm, skills and a great joy in working together. We have:
- A multidisciplinary background: work psychology, individual psychology, educational science
- Active cooperation with universities and institutes for organizational development
- Strong connection to systemic thinking and understanding of how interaction between people steer the organizations
- A practical approach to application of theory
- Multiple methods to combine in development – with us or independently
- The will to live according to our values and to be able to confront the trials and tribulations of everyday life
- We want to walk alongside our customers during their change and development processes.
Read more about Humap at: www.humap.com
GoProces
Go’Proces is a consultancy company based in Århus, Denmark. We have been working with organisation development since 2000 and work with leaders
and employees from all sorts of organisations. Deeply founded in systemic and appriciative practice our corecompetence is creating a learning culture within
the organisation - among its managers and employees. With them we work and wonder... How do we learn? How do others learn? And how do we learn from them?
Read more about GoProces at: www.goproces.dk
TSCM
The Transcultural Society for Clinical Meditation (TSCM) – founded by Em. Prof. Yutaka Haruki, PhD, Waseda University, Japan) and Em. Hon. Prof. Maurits G.T. Kwee, PhD, in 2000 in Amsterdam – is a continuation of the Transnational Network for the Study of Physical, Psychological, & Spiritual Wellbeing, established in 1990 in Kyoto. The TSCM is an amorphous organization of academics interested in Buddhist Meditations and Buddhist Psychology. A formal membership is not required to participate in TSCM’s activities only one’s genuine interest. We organize conferences (also: master classes, seminars, and workshops), publish the writings of participants, and stimulate young scholars through a “Professor Yutaka Haruki Award”. Presently, TSCM is especially engaged in developing a “new” Buddhist Psychology which is a social constructionist endeavour toward a “social-clinical-neuro-psychology” of Karma Modification through collaborative practice, reflective negotiation, and transformational dialogue to change meaning (cognition) and action (behaviour). Based on the Gergenian adage “I am linked therefore I am”, Social Construction offers a meta-perspective that psychological processes are not so much “in-between the ears” as “in-between people”: to act means to interact. There is striking overlap between the postmodern social constructionist discarding of “transcendental truths” and proposing “relational being”, and the 2600 year old non-theistic Buddhist vision of god(s) as a delusion, the soul/self as an illusion, and the insights in “emptiness/not-self/interbeing”.
Read more about the TSCM at: www.transcultural.meditation.googlepages.com
Trondheim Family Counselling Office
Trondheim Family Counselling Office gives is a free, low-threshold service available nationwide to couples, families and individuals. Anyone who wants to can contact a family counselling office in Norway. The offices offer therapy, advice and counselling when problems, conflicts and crises arise in the family, and also mediation when there’s separation. The office is a service for the population in Sor-Trondelag County in the middle part of Norway
Read more about Trondheim Family Counselling Office at: www.familievernkontoret.no
Attractor/RMC
ATTRACTOR/RMC is part academic institution that offers courses and education with a theoretical basis, and part consultancy firm that offers managerial training as well as process skills and organizational development. The idea behind ATTRACTOR, in short, is building bridges between two worlds. On one side the academic world and the theories it deals with, and on the other side the concrete, practical consultancy work in organizations. The basis of all work within ATTRACTOR is founded on social constructionist and the systemic theory’s ideas regarding how theory and practice are integrated, as well as the unwavering commitment to incorporating the newest and most well-founded methods and theories from research in managerial and organizational development.
Read more about Attractor/RMC at: www.attractor.dk
Norwegian Family Therapy Association (NFFT)
The Norwegian Family Therapy Association (NFFT) is a multi-disciplinary association for all those who have family therapeutic and systemic practice as their common interest.
The objective of the association is to develop family therapy and systemic work, strengthen their position and practice, and increase networking between family therapists.
To achieve the objective NFFT organises conferences, seminars, Systemic Cafés, and workshops; furthermore publishes a Members’ Journal "Metaforum", supports research and practice development as well as information and publishing work. NFFT is also involved in international family therapy, narrative and systemic associations, and has supporting projects in the Baltic area.
NFFT aims at becoming more active in announcing statements on issues related to the field, and at promoting higher recognition of systemic and family therapy education and practice.
Read more aboubt NFFT at: www.nfft.no
Villa Venire A/S
A company presentation could tell the expected. But which kind of presentation would be suitable for a company built on the idea, that the expected is not always what is needed? The expected would need to be met with a certain degree of surprises or diversity, in order to actually make a difference that makes a difference.
We could state, that our methods are based on social constructional theories, but that sometimes poetry or the courage to grasp the awkward has astonishing effects.
We could state, that we try to provide useful answers, but that sometimes it’s the good question that provides meaning.
We could state, that we work with education and courses, training and organizational development, and coaching and therapy, but though true, we thrive in developing designs that doesn’t need categorizations. We could state, that a complex organization cannot be condensed to a short presentation, still we’re trying to catch up with our slogan “Life&Learning”.
Read more at www.villavenire.dk
FOKUS PÅ FAMILIEN
Fokus på familien (Family in Focus) is the main journal in Scandinavia for family therapy. It brings articles within the field of family therapy, family sociology and family politics. The journal advances theory, research, debate and practical-clinical experiences from family therapy. It deals with a wide range of topics from family therapy, and publishes articles from related areas.
The editorial board consists of people from Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. The journal was founded in 1973 and is published by University Press in collaboration with Norwegian Directorate for Children, Youth and Family Affairs, Association of Family Counselling Agencies - Church of Norway Modum Bad, the Norwegian Family Therapy Association, the Swedish Family Therapy Association, the Danish Association for Systemic Therapy and Consultation and the Finnish Family Therapy Association
Read more about Fokus på familien at: http://www.universitetsforlaget.no/?marketplaceId=200&languageId=1&siteNodeId=697768
And buy articles at:http://www.idunn.no/ts/fokus
Intersmil
Intersmil is an upcoming company, which specializes in sustained organizational change through Appreciative Embodiment. Intersmil creates courses and facilitates changes in organizations. An Intersmil course consists of three principal elements: Appreciation, Embodiment and Sustainability.
During dedicated and in-depth work with Appreciative Inquiry, Intersmil have found that the body is a wonderful enrichment to the AI. In Appreciative Embodiment the body is viewed as the context of dialogue and interaction. When we include the body in our work of appreciation, we can ground and sustain the processes of change initiated by AI.
The reason why Intersmil with Appreciative Embodiment involves the body in AI is that we perceive the body as the most important system of navigation, which will guide the processes in the right directions. It has been established that AI contributes to a high level of commitment on the part of the participant and this commitment will be stabilized, physically incorporated and sustained. In this way there will be consistency between the talks of a positive change at the work place and what is actually done.
Intersmil consists of a professional team with core competences in communications, psychology, lifelong learning, training and elite sport. They hold a scientific education and combine a highly professional level with solid practical experience.
Appreciative Meditation is one of the central themes in Appreciative Embodiment, where the participants learns and practices to sustain the changes in the body trough awareness.
For further information visit www.intersmil.dk /www.appreciative-embodiment.com
Dansk Psykologisk Forlag
Read more about Dansk Psykologisk forlag at: www.dpf.dk
GCK
Read more about GCK at: www.gck.nu
Albatros
Read more about Albatros at: www.albatros.dk
Fractality
Read more about Fractality at: www.fractality.gr
Copenhagen University - Department of Exercise and Sport
Read more about Copenhagen University - Department of Exercise and Sport Sciences at: www.ifi.ku.dk/english
The Danish School of Public Administration
Read more about The Danish School of Public Administration at: www.dfhnet.dk
More information
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