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Taos Institute

The Taos Institute is a community of scholars and practitioners concerned with the social processes for constructing knowledge and human value. The Taos Institute is committed to exploring, developing and disseminating ideas and practices that promote creative, appreciative and collaborative processes in families, communities and organizations, including Appreciative Inquiry. It achieves its educational ends through conferences, workshops, publications, a PhD program, a distance learning program, newsletters, and web-based offerings.

Bliss Browne, President of Imagine Chicago, is an Associate of the Taos Institute. Taos Institute Publications will publish her major new book about the Imagine movement entitled Imagine: A Conversation with the Future in 2009.

For more information go to The Taos Institute website.  A key resource developed by members of the Taos Institute is the AI Commons which serves as a worldwide portal devoted to the fullest sharing of academic resources and practical tools on Appreciative Inquiry and the rapidly growing discipline of positive change.