Positivity Strategist Podcast
1) Community Building Practices that Attend to Difference
How do we participate in community building practices in ways that attend to difference? Ways that are genuinely committed to consider power relations and how they play out when working amidst differe...Show More
2) What is Transmaterial Worlding and Why do We Need to Pay Attention?
Transmaterial worlding provokes us to pay attention. Once we start to realize that we are merely co-inhabitors of this world, we awaken to the notion we are making it, or breaking it, with each breath...Show More
3) Approaching Educational Evaluation from a Relational Perspective
Educational evaluation of the entire ecosystem in education can enhance learning processes, students' engagement and vitality of relationships in classrooms, and in the evaluation of teaching and the ...Show More
4) Recovering from Addiction by Mobilizing Relational Processes
Relational processes are key to recovering from addiction. Addiction's development, sustainability and finally its ending are embedded in family, community and broader societal contexts. In order to r...Show More
5) Social Therapeutics as Play, Performance and Becoming
Dr. Lois Holzman explores the topic of social therapeutics as a playful, performatory, philosophical methodology for person and community development. Influenced by three intellectual traditions, soci...Show More
6) Transformative Community Conferencing - A Constructionist Approach to a More Hopeful Future
Transformative community conferencing is an approach to community building or reconciliation. As a narrative practice, it embodies a more reflective orientation to relationships and to systems change....Show More
7) Creating School Harmony with Social Constructionist Practices
How we deal with conflict, bullying, rule violation, etc. has crucial implications on how we live together in schools but also in society. Unfortunately, punitive and authoritative approaches are stil...Show More
8) Positive Aging through the Lens of Social Construction
Research into positive aging delivers findings that run counter to the traditional understanding of aging. The traditional view develops negative expectations. To the contrary, positive aging research...Show More
9) Social Innovation Practices Through the Lens of Social Construction
This is the introductory episode of season 5 which focuses on social innovations across many domains. We are collaborating with the Taos Institute and supporting a significant publication, The Sage Ha...Show More
10) Save The Date: Launching A Season Worth Waiting For
Save the Date for Season 5. It's a collaboration with the Taos Institute. Our inquiry: What are the innovations that Social Construction is bringing to our world? If you are new to social construction...Show More