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COMMUNICATION PERSPECTIVES
Making sense of our world
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.
State of Being
Consultation: $100 per hour
Support Group: $25 per person
Asking "why" about our direct
experiences with the world.
Who has been granted status?
mindfulness
narrative approaches
interpersonal communication
identities-centered theories
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.
What's your level of relational satisfaction?
autonomy-closeness
relational communication
communication patterns
family systems
love
bell hooks
cannot exist in the context of domination
Relations between
Intercultural 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.
What is protected and promoted?
harmony-conflict
intercultural communication
communication ethics
relational dialectics theory
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
Professional Development
Consultation: $100 per hour
SenseMaking Forum: $35 per person
Investigating the commonsense assumptions.
What are the discretions?
agency-control
organizational communication
communication pedagogy
qualitative methods
communication
Mumby & Kuhn (2019)
the dynamic, ongoing process of
creating and negotiating meanings
Agency & Control
Social Change
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Communicating in and through
an often uncertain world
What has become normal?
historical contexts
competing arguments
informed choices
The Power Of The People
relies on 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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