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

Collaborative-Dialogic Practice is a humanizing approach to facilitating transformative dialogues with clients, creating generative space, and promoting meaningful changes in difficult situations. It is accessible and applicable to professionals in diverse contexts, cultures, and disciplines, and will be an essential resource and guide.

Format: Hardback
Length: 232 pages
Publication date: 13 October 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Collaborative-Dialogic Practice is a transformative approach that empowers professionals to engage in humanizing conversations with their clients, fostering meaningful change and unlocking unexpected possibilities in our rapidly evolving, diverse, and ever-shrinking world. Authored by Harlene Anderson and Diane Gehart, this comprehensive guide is accompanied by a collective of international experts who shed light on collaborative-dialogic practice as a means to nurture relationships and facilitate conversations that create a generative space, enabling clients to experience meaningful transformations, even in the most challenging circumstances.

The book is divided into two parts: Part 1 provides an overview of collaborative-dialogue and situates it within the context of traditional and contemporary challenges and practices. It offers a conceptual framework that underpins the practice. In Part 2, the authors delve into the practical application of collaborative-dialogue across various contexts, cultures, and diverse populations. They showcase how readers can translate the concepts into their unique practice settings and tailor them to the specific situations of their clients.

With its accessible and applicable nature, this book serves as an invaluable resource and guide for professionals across diverse contexts, cultures, and disciplines, including counselors, psychotherapists, consultants, leaders, mentors, educators, and trainers. By embracing collaborative-dialogic practice, professionals can cultivate deeper connections, enhance client outcomes, and contribute to the positive transformation of individuals, communities, and society as a whole.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367707750