Collaborative-Dialogic Practice: Relationships and Conversations that Make a Difference Across Contexts and Cultures

by Harlene Anderson (editor), Diane R. Gehart (Editor)

Collaborative-Dialogic Practice provides professionals a humanizing approach in facilitating transformative dialogues with their clients, making a difference, and creating surprising possibilities in our fast-changing, diverse, and ever-shrinking world.

Written alongside a collection of international experts, Harlene Anderson and Diane Gehart introduce collaborative-dialogic practice as a way to encourage relationships and conversations that create generative space and promote meaningful changes in clients, even in the most difficult situations. Split into theory and practice, Part 1 introduces collaborative-dialogue and locates it within traditional and contemporary challenges and practices, providing an overview of its conceptual framework. Chapters in Part 2 then detail the practice in a variety of contexts, cultures, and diverse populations, illustrating how readers can translate the concepts to their distinctive practice settings, and their clients’ unique situations.

Accessible and applicable, this book will be an essential resource and guide for professionals in diverse contexts, cultures, and disciplines, including counselors, psychotherapists, consultants, leaders, mentors, educators, and trainers.

252 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 13, 2022

Reviews

[John Richardson · Rating 3 out of 5]

To be clear, I'm just another over-educated DEI-trained social servant member of what was once known as the middle class, reading things that generally reinforce my pre-existing worldviews who wants everyone else to embrace what I embrace with the naïveté that that would make the world a better place. This book would go in that library for sure. This covers a broad swath of disciplines to which collaborative-dialogic practice could be applied. The ones on healthcare, mental health, and social science research are the ones most interesting to me while most of the others sound downright redundant. But it's a fine primer if you were wanting to get into it.