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SenseMakes, LLC
COMMUNICATION PERSPECTIVES
Welcome.
My name is Brian.
Communication
Effectiveness & Competence
Frameworks and processes for sharing
meanings with each other and
understanding the different
contexts of our world.
communicating fully
Bessel van der Kolk, M.D. (2014)
the opposite of being traumatized
Responding to both trauma and oppression.
Uncertainty
Actualities & Possibilities
Rights-based practices that move toward
resilient and sustainable selves,
relationships, and communities.
What has been psychologically sealed?
What has been institutionally ascribed?
Who has been granted a certain status?
communication
Julia T. Wood (2004)
a fluctuating, unpredictable, multivocal process
in which uncertainty infuses encounters
between people and what they
mean and become
Diversity & Inclusion
State of Being
Consultation: $100 per hour
Support Group: $25 per person
Asking "why" about our direct
experiences with the world.
mindfulness
narrative approaches
interpersonal communication
identities-based approaches
absolute death
Mikhail Bakhtin
(state of nonbeing)
being unheard, unrecognized, unremembered
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to be is to communicate
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communicating fully
Bessel van der Kolk (2014)
the opposite of being traumatized
Trauma's and....
Relational Development
Consultation: $100 per hour
SenseMaking Forum: $35 per person
Willingness to risk change in our
perspective of selves, others, and
the world we inhabit together.
relational communication
communication patterns
relational dialectics theory
family systems
love
bell hooks
cannot exist in the context of domination
Relations between
Professional Development
Consultation: $100 per hour
SenseMaking Forum: $35 per person
Investigating the commonsense assumptions.
communication ethics
intercultural communication
communication pedagogy
organizational systems
communication
Mumby & Kuhn (2019)
the dynamic, ongoing process of
creating and negotiating meanings
What has become normal?
Folx Media
Social Change
Coming Soon!
Communicating in and through
an often uncertain world
a right to be understood
a right to communicate
a right to the decision-making process
The Power Of The People
relies on the people to endure
The Honourable Vida Yeboah (2006)
to advocate for the change that will benefit them,
to work through their differences,
to come together and form social movements
in order to demand their rights
Communication & Social Change
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