Sheila McNamee, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita of Communication at the University of New Hampshire and Vice President and Co-Founder of the Taos Institute.  She is internationally known for her contributions to social construction theory and practice, focusing on dialogic transformation in psychotherapy, education, healthcare, organizations, and research.  She is author of several books and articles, including Research and Social Change: A Relational Constructionist Approach (with D. M. Hosking, Routledge, 2012), Relational Responsibility:  Resources for Sustainable Dialogue (with K. Gergen, Sage, 1999), and is co-editor of The Sage Handbook of Social Constructionist Practice (with M. Gergen, E. Rasera, & C. Camargo-Borges, 2020) and Education as Social Construction:  Contributions to Theory, Research, and Practice (with T. Dragonas, K. Gergen, E. Tseliou, Taos WorldShare, 2015). Kenneth J. Gergen is a Senior Research Professor in Psychology at Swarthmore College, and the President of the Taos Institute. He is internationally known for his contributions to social constructionist theory, technology and cultural change, the self, aging, education, and relational theory and practices. His major writings include, Realities and Relationships: Soundings in Social Construction, The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life, and Relational Being: Beyond Self and Community. His most recent work Beyond the Tyranny of Testing: Relational Evaluation in Education (with Scherto Gill) offers a relational constructionist alternative to the destructive practices of testing and grading in education. Gergen lectures throughout the world, and has received numerous awards for his work, including honorary degrees in both the U.S. and Europe.

• Preface - Sheila McNamee and Kenneth J GergenSituating the ConversationPART ONE:RELATIONAL RESPONSIBILITYAn Invitation to Relational ResponsibilityRelational Responsibility in PracticeA Case in PointPART TWO: EXPANDING THE DIALOGUE: RESONANCE AND REFIGURATIONWhen Stories Have Wings - David Cooperrider and Diana WhitneyHow Relational Responsibility Opens New Options for ActionCollaborative Learning Communities - Harlene AndersonRelational Moves and Generative Dances - Ian BurkittOn Being Relational in an Accountable Way - John W LannamannThe Questions of Agency and PowerThe Uncertain Path to Dialogue - Sallyann RothA MeditationRelational Responsibility - Mary GergenDeconstructive PossibilitiesRelational Responsibility or Dialogic Ethics? A Questioning of McNamee and Gergen - Stanley Deetz and William J WhiteResponding and Relating - Michael J Mazanec and Steve DuckResponse-Ability to Individuals, Relating and DifferenceCo-Constructing Responsibility - Karl TommInspiring Dialogues and Relational Responsibility - Eero RiikonenCreating Relational Realities - John Shotter and Arlene M KatzResponsible Responding to Poetic `Movements′ and `Moments′Relational Inquiry and Relational Responsibility - Robert Cottor and Sharon CottorThe Practice of ChangeA Circle of Voices - Peggy Penn and Marilyn Frankfurt`Just Like Max′ - Walter EggersLearning in RelationWaiting for the Author - Maurizio MarzariPART THREE: CONTINUING THE CONVERSATIONRelational Responsibility - Sheila McNamee and Kenneth J GergenThe Converging Conversation

Sheila McNamee, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita of Communication at the University of New Hampshire and Vice President and Co-Founder of the Taos Institute.  She is internationally known for her contributions to social construction theory and practice, focusing on dialogic transformation in psychotherapy, education, healthcare, organizations, and research.  She is author of several books and articles, including Research and Social Change: A Relational Constructionist Approach (with D. M. Hosking, Routledge, 2012), Relational Responsibility:  Resources for Sustainable Dialogue (with K. Gergen, Sage, 1999), and is co-editor of The Sage Handbook of Social Constructionist Practice (with M. Gergen, E. Rasera, & C. Camargo-Borges, 2020) and Education as Social Construction:  Contributions to Theory, Research, and Practice (with T. Dragonas, K. Gergen, E. Tseliou, Taos WorldShare, 2015). Kenneth J. Gergen is a Senior Research Professor in Psychology at Swarthmore College, and the President of the Taos Institute. He is internationally known for his contributions to social constructionist theory, technology and cultural change, the self, aging, education, and relational theory and practices. His major writings include, Realities and Relationships: Soundings in Social Construction, The Saturated Self: Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life, and Relational Being: Beyond Self and Community. His most recent work Beyond the Tyranny of Testing: Relational Evaluation in Education (with Scherto Gill) offers a relational constructionist alternative to the destructive practices of testing and grading in education. Gergen lectures throughout the world, and has received numerous awards for his work, including honorary degrees in both the U.S. and Europe.

• Preface - Sheila McNamee and Kenneth J GergenSituating the ConversationPART ONE:RELATIONAL RESPONSIBILITYAn Invitation to Relational ResponsibilityRelational Responsibility in PracticeA Case in PointPART TWO: EXPANDING THE DIALOGUE: RESONANCE AND REFIGURATIONWhen Stories Have Wings - David Cooperrider and Diana WhitneyHow Relational Responsibility Opens New Options for ActionCollaborative Learning Communities - Harlene AndersonRelational Moves and Generative Dances - Ian BurkittOn Being Relational in an Accountable Way - John W LannamannThe Questions of Agency and PowerThe Uncertain Path to Dialogue - Sallyann RothA MeditationRelational Responsibility - Mary GergenDeconstructive PossibilitiesRelational Responsibility or Dialogic Ethics? A Questioning of McNamee and Gergen - Stanley Deetz and William J WhiteResponding and Relating - Michael J Mazanec and Steve DuckResponse-Ability to Individuals, Relating and DifferenceCo-Constructing Responsibility - Karl TommInspiring Dialogues and Relational Responsibility - Eero RiikonenCreating Relational Realities - John Shotter and Arlene M KatzResponsible Responding to Poetic `Movements′ and `Moments′Relational Inquiry and Relational Responsibility - Robert Cottor and Sharon CottorThe Practice of ChangeA Circle of Voices - Peggy Penn and Marilyn Frankfurt`Just Like Max′ - Walter EggersLearning in RelationWaiting for the Author - Maurizio MarzariPART THREE: CONTINUING THE CONVERSATIONRelational Responsibility - Sheila McNamee and Kenneth J GergenThe Converging Conversation