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Collaborative-Dialogic Practices in Therapy and the Helping Professions
With Rocio Chaveste and Papusa Molina
The Kanankil Institute, a degree granting institution, is an academic space in México that invites you to explore various ways of perceiving and working with human systems. It is a forum to study proposals from different disciplines where dialogical, collaborative and social constructionist practices can be applied to fields such as psychotherapy, supervision, education, consulting, and community work.
At Kanankil, learning is conceived as a co-evolutionary process, in which teachers and students are engaged in dialogical processes through which they create knowledge. It is a reflective process that includes connecting, dialoguing and interacting. Within this position it is maintained that what we take for correct and objective explanations of nature and the self, are only a by-product of social processes. In fact, what we take for the "real and the good" is for the most part a product of textual stories which are not independent of people; on the contrary, texts are a by-product of human relationships and are loaded with meaning from the way they are used.
Social construction deals with networks of relationships and questions the position of transcendent superiority. Collaborative learning is conceived as an interactive and egalitarian process, which leads to new meanings and changes generated through a dialogical and conversational process. Knowledge is constructed and communicated linguistically (including verbal, non-verbal language, words, sounds, gestures and other symbols), participants are interdependent and each one contributes to the generation of knowledge.
Kanankil co-founder and director Rocío Chaveste and director Papusa Molina invite you to join them in a conversation about their unique educational program and collaborative-dialogic practices.
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