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Sheila McNameeis Professor of Communication at the University of New Hampshire and co-founder and Vice President of the Taos Institute (taosinstitute.net). Her work is focused on dialogic transformation within a variety of social and institutional contexts including psychotherapy, education, healthcare, organizations and communities. 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 Education as Social Construction: Contributions to Theory, Research, and Practice (co-edited with T. Dragonas, K. Gergen and E. Tseliou, Taos WorldShare, 2015).Mary M. Gergenis Professor Emerita, Psychology and Women's Studies, Penn State University, Brandywine and is a pioneer in the field of social construction and feminist studies. Feminist Reconstructions in Psychology: Narrative, Gender and Performance and Feminist Thought and the Structure of Knowledge are two of her books on these themes. Recently Playing with Purpose: Adventures in Performative Social Science, with K. Gergen, is a composite of their performance work. She is also a founder of the Taos Institute, an educational non-profit organization dedicated to the application of social constructionist ideas to professional practices. With Kenneth Gergen, she edits the ‘Positive Aging Newsletter'; Paths to Positive Aging is their most recent book on aging.Celiane Camargo-Borgesis a lecturer, researcher and practitioner with a PhD from her native Brazil, from the University of Sao Paulo. While completing her doctoral dissertation, she spent one year as a visiting scholar at the University of New Hampshire, USA. She is faculty at Breda University of Applied Sciences in the Netherlands and visiting professor and guest lecturer at several universities around the world such as University of São Paulo in Brazil, Polytechnic Institute of Leiria in Portugal, University College Aspira in Croatia, among others. Celiane is also the founder of Designing Conversations (www.designingconversations.us), where she consults, designs and delivers workshops and process design within a diversity of areas where creativity, imagination, innovation and dialogue are central. Celiane is also involved in international projects where she facilitates organizations and communities in joining together to initiate change. Among her projects are her collaboration with NGOs in Uganda, with sustainable local tourism in Cape Verde, and with community activism in Brazil. She has more than 30 publications in journals and books on participatory research, Imagineering, design approaches, PlaceMaking and community development. In addition, she is a member of the Taos Institute Board, serving as a PhD supervisor and facilitator of workshops and online courses.Emerson F. Raserais Professor of Group Theory and Practice at the Institute of Psychology, Federal University of Uberlândia, Brazil. He is former President of the Brazilian Association of Social Psychology, and Editor of the Brazilian journals Psicologia & Sociedade [Psychology & Society], and Gerais: Revista Interinstitucional de Psicologia [Gerais: Interinstitutional Journal of Psychology]. His work is focused on social constructionist contributions to psychological practices, especially in healthcare, community work and issues of sexual diversity. His most recent books are Social Constructionist Perspectives on Group Work (2015), Construccionismo Social en acción: Prácticas inspiradoras en diferentes contextos [Social construction in action: inspiring practices from different contexts] (with Karin Taverniers and Oriana Vilches-Álvarez, 2017) and Grupo como construção social [Group as social construction] (with Marisa Japur, 2018).