IDEAS, NEWS AND RESOURCES
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March 2019
The Taos Institute's mission is to bring together scholars and practitioners concerned with the social processes essential for the construction of reason, knowledge, and human value, and their application in relational, collaborative and appreciative practices around the world.
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What is Happening? And How to Get Involved!
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Brief Encounter with The Taos Institute
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Brief Encounter
March 2019
Found in Translation
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Found in Translation
By Marge Schiller, Taos Institute associate, author, consultant and grandmother
We know about when things are lost in translation. In this Brief Encounter, I wonder what are some things to be found in translation?
Here are two compelling examples of what can be found in translations of language and generational translation. Both examples provide opportunity to find deeper, richer, and clearer meaning.
The first Appreciative Inquiry Book for children
Stan and the Four Fantastic Powers
has been translated from the original English version to French, Spanish and Portuguese. Here (Illustration 1) is the 4D model of DISCOVER -DREAM -DESIGN AND DESTINY (or Deliver, or Deploy- other words that have been used to describe an AI process).
This illustration (1) is a translation from a multi-generational team. Each translation has been read by at least one man, one woman, and some children to hear from different ears and to see through different eyes.
First, thanks to illustrator Stefanie Rudolph and translators Kristian Sgorla, Alexandra Arnold and Elsa Hallak. Translations began when Larissa Loures of Brazil helped the authors of STAN and the FOUR FANTASTIC POWERS see that words clear and understandable for 8 to 10 year olds are clear and understandable for all of us. We saw the value of using simple children’s stories to communicate with adults. While this is not a new idea, it is a useful and powerful one to remember.
Second, meaning changes depending on generational context. Now that I am in my 80’s my metaphors - even my words and phrases - are very different than those of people in other age groups.
There is language translation but there is also generational translation. One of the joys of youth is making up new words and giving old words new meanings. To be young is to be part of the ‘translation generation.’ The rest of us valiantly try to keep up with the current phrases and how to use them only to be told “Oh that is so last year - nobody says that anymore!”
What I have found in translation is how respectful, enriching and complex it is to build the bridges that connect cultures, languages and generations.
STAN and THE FOUR FANTASTIC POWERS
by Shira Levy, Marge Schiller, Sarah Schiller and Max Schiller is available in English from Taos Institute Publishing or Amazon. We anticipate translation into additional languages.
For more on
Stan and the Four Fantastic Powers
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Professional Development Opportunities
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Upcoming Events
April 29-June 3, 2019
Friends of the Taos Institute Events
Nice, France
March 19-22, 2019
Toronto, Canada
June-27, 2019
February 24-May 21, 2019
July 3-6, 2019
Antwerp, Belgium
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in historic Brno, Czech Republic
We will focus on the exploration and practice of Collaborative-Dialogic Practice across contexts, cultures, and disciplines.
Inviting connection, conversation, creativity in education, psychotherapy, research and organizations
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Giving life to education. Learning together, living together.
Welcome to the third International Learning Festival.
Location: Holmen Fjordhotell, Nesbru in Asker, Norway
You are invited to share, to learn, and to create in a conference devoted to envisioning and inspiring the future education of youth.
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Hogeschool de Kempel, Helmond, The Netherlands, is happy to host the conference
The Future is Now!
in partnership with The Taos Institute (USA) and UngInvest AIB (Norway).
This conference is an International Learning Festival. Sharing, exploring and creating new ideas and practices, and dedicated to the welfare of our youth in our educational systems.
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This year we further expand our focus from last year’s topic: practices of leadership. We are examining how leadership builds and develops organizational capacity and relational welfare practices.
The event will be held June 26-28 2019 in Aarhus, Denmark
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An online course with Celiane Camargo-Borges, PhD
April 29-June 3, 2019
This 6-week online course introduces common premises and orienting ideas central to dialogues on social construction. The ways in which constructionist ideas differ from traditional, realist understandings of the world are explored. The course will consist of six modules with readings, videos and online dialogues via text chat groups and live group calls each week. It will
feature videos and writings of Ken Gergen, Mary Gergen, Sheila McNamee, Harlene Anderson, Barnett Pearce, John Shotter, Saliha Bava along with guest appearances each week.
Learn more.
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Join in with the Relational Research Network
on a new Project:
The RRN Support Learning Community
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The Relational Research Network is creating a new space and opportunity to join with other researchers to critically think about how inquiry and research processes connect and inspire us.
- Have you ever wondered how your research project can have a relational focus or be a relational practice?
- Are you doing or would like to do relational research and have meaningful conversations about your work?
- Would you appreciate sharing your work with others in the learning community, engaging through questions, challenges, or issues related to your research project?
- Would you like the opportunity to be in conversation with other researchers to network, co-learn and create opportunities for collaboration?
If so, we invite you to join the Relational Research Network's new project: The RRN Support Learning Community.
For all the information and the form to submit your idea for a relational research project support conversation visit:
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International Journal of Collaborative-Dialogic Practices
This free journal brings together members of a growing international community of practitioners, scholars, educators, researchers, and consultants interested in postmodern collaborative practices. Issue 8 is now available.
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WorldShare Books
FREE downloadable books in 12 different languages.
With over 28 books in English and many more from around the world, you will enjoy reading about education, spirituality, organizational life, community building, group dynamics, leadership and more.
Order your free book today!
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Positive Aging Newsletter
FREE
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By focusing on the positive aspects of aging, and the availability of resources, skills, and resiliencies, research not only brings useful insights into the realm of practice but creates hope and empowers action among older people. By moving beyond practices of repair and prevention, to emphasize growth-enhancing activities, practitioners also contribute more effectively to the societal reconstruction of aging.
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Manuscripts for Downloading
Access hundreds of articles and papers on topics such as:
- Appreciative Inquiry
- Collaborative Practices
- Dialogue
- Appreciative Cultures
- Creativity and Improve
- Narrative Practices
- Relational Learning
- Relational Research
- Qualitative Research
- and so much more!
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John Shotter's death on December 8, 2016, was a profound loss for the scholarly world, for the Taos Institute, and for many of us personally.
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