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You are invited to the 13th Biennial Conference of the Constructivist Psychology    Network to be held in to be held at the University of  Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia from 19th to the 21st, 2008. The conference will be organized around three main domains of Constructivist practice: Therapy or Counseling, Education, and Research. Practitioners, educators, and researchers who work from constructivist, constructionist, or narrative theories are encouraged to attend this conference in order to participate in dialogues that extend the reach of these perspectives. Child and youth care practitioners, psychologists, counselors, social workers, health care practitioners, and mediators would all find this conference to be a relevant and stimulating event.

Keynote Speakers for Upcoming CPN Conference:

Dr. Kenneth Gergen is a major figure in the development of social constructionist theory and its applications to practices of social change. He also lectures widely on contemporary issues in cultural life, including the self, technology, postmodernism, civil society, organizational change, developments in psychotherapy, educational practices, aging, and political conflict. Dr. Gergen has published over 300 articles in journals, magazines and books. His major books include Toward Transformation in Social Knowledge, The Saturated Self, Realities and Relationships, and An Invitation to Social Construction. With Dr. Mary Gergen, he publishes an electronic newsletter, Positive Aging (www.positiveaging.net) now distributed to over 20,000 recipients.

Dr. Mary Gergen is a founder and Board member of the Taos  I nstitute and a professor of psychology affiliated with the Women's Studies   Program at Pennsylvania State University, the Delaware County Campus, Media, PA. She has positioned herself at the intellectual convergence of feminist theory and postmodernist thought, as a social constructionist. She has been involved in a great variety of the Taos projects, including conferences, organizational consulting and educational spheres. Her recent publications include Toward a New Psychology of Gender, edited with Sara N. Davis, Feminist Reconstructions in Psychology, Narrative, Gender & Performance (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage 2001) and Social Constructionism: A Reader (London: Sage, 2003) (Edited with K. J. Gergen).