The Taos Institute
Rolla E. Lewis is currently serving as the Dean of the Process Thought and Practice Certificate Program at Cobb Institute since June 2023. In addition, Rolla E. Lewis has been an Associate at The Taos Institute since 2016 and has held the position of Professor Emeritus at California State University, East Bay since 2006, focusing on advocacy for public education, school counseling, and student well-being. Previously, Rolla E. Lewis was an Associate Professor and School Counseling Coordinator at Portland State University from 1995 to 2006, and worked as a Counselor at Liberty Union High School District from 1979 to 1995.
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The Taos Institute
The Taos Institute is a community of scholars and practitioners concerned with the social processes essential for the construction of reason, knowledge, and human value. We are a non-profit (501c3) organization committed to exploring, developing and disseminating ideas and practices that promote creative, appreciative and collaborative processes in families, communities and organizations around the world. Social constructionist theory and practice locates the source of meaning, value and action in the relational connection among people. It is through our social and relational processes that we construct the world. We achieve our educational ends through conferences, workshops, publications, a PhD program, certificate programs, distance learning programs, newsletters, and web-based offerings. We work at the interface between the scholarly community and societal practitioners from communities of mental health, social work, counseling, organizational change, education, community building, gerontology, healthcare and more. We develop and explore the ways in which scholarly research can enrich professional practices, and practices can stimulate scholarly inquiry.