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Making Better Social Worlds for the 21st Century (Online)

Making Better Social Worlds for the 21st Century conference, CMM Institute with AFT & FKCC, USA & UK, September 23-25, 2021 (online). No deadline, but advance registration is required to receive login information.

Making Better Social Worlds for the 21st Century is a special online conference being hosted jointly by the CMM Institute (USA), the Association for Family Therapy (UK) and the Friends of the Kensington Consulting Centre (KCC, also in the UK). Contributors and participants at the conference will be exploring and reflecting upon the values, ethics and practices of all three host organizations and sharing new developments that can help make a better and more just world for all of us. This conference is fully virtual: all sessions will take place online, with a combination of live and pre-recorded sessions. Replays will also be available for many of the sessions.

The CMM Institute is a connector and cultivator of all things to do with the theory and practice of the Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) that contributes to making better social worlds. AFT, the Association for Family Therapy and Systemic Practice, is a registered charity working to benefit the public by promoting effective family therapy and systemic services and high standards of professional training and practice. FKCC, Friends of the Kensington Consulting Centre, work collectively to grow the values, ethics and practices emanating from the KCC school of therapy, consultation, management and research.

Penman & Jensen: Making Better Social Worlds

Penman, R., & Jensen, A. (2019). Making Better Social Worlds: Inspirations from the Theory of the Coordinated Management of Meaning. Oracle, AZ: CMM Institute Press.

Barnett Pearce invited us all to make better social worlds. Penman and Jensen show us how to begin—how to cross the wide gap between wanting to make a better social world and actually beginning to do so. – Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz

Making Better Social Worlds: Inspirations from the Theory of the Coordinated Management of Meaning is a companion volume to the Cosmopolis2045 website. It serves as a fitting first book from the new CMMi Press. The book offers a clear and comprehensive account of how the theory of the Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM) can be used to help us rise to the challenges of 21st century life with its political turmoil, social divisiveness and increasing moral bankruptcy. Making Better Social Worlds describes how we create our social worlds in communication, that our relationships with people matter deeply to the quality of our lives and that living with difference enriches us. Readers are offered a new mindset that is relationship-orientated, self-reflexive and morally attuned, along with what it means to engage in joint action, dialogue and cosmopolitan communication, to show how changing our communication practices can bring about social and cultural change.