SenseMakes, LLC
Communication Perspectives
absolute death
Mikhail Bakhtin
state of nonbeing
being unheard, unrecognized, unremembered
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to be is to communicate
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a right to be understood
Communication
Effectiveness & Competence
Welcome.
My name is Brian.
communicating fully
Bessel van der Kolk M.D. (2014)
the opposite of being traumatized
a right to communicate
Communication Consult
Consultation: $100 per hour
Frameworks and processes for
sharing meanings with each
other and understanding the
different contexts of our world.
communication
Julia T. Wood (2004)
a fluctuating, unpredictable,
multivocal process in which
uncertainty infuses encounters
between people and what
they mean and become
a right to the decision-making process
Uncertainty
Actualities & Possibilities
Welcome.
My name is Sunni.
Stephen Porges
if you want to improve the world,
start by making people feel safe
Responding to both trauma
and systemic oppression.
Trauma-informed practices
that move toward resilient
and sustainable selves,
relationships, and
communities.
worldviews
Kenneth Burke
a way of seeing is also
a way of not seeing
safety & engagement
IntraDialogue
State of Being
Both Sunni and Brian.
Selves develop in and through
communication with others.
$50 per person
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What has been psychologized?
What has been institutionalized?
Who has been granted status?
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Thursday, June 18th @ 6:00 pm
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health & wellbeing
mindfulness
human perception
personality patterns
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loneliness
Thich Nhat Hanh (2013)
the suffering of our time
What has been silenced?
CoAuthorings
Relationships
Both Sunni and Brian.
Co-creating, negotiating, and
sharing meanings with others.
$50 per person
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Who are we?
Who are we becoming?
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Wednesday, June 24th @ 6:00 pm
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autonomy-closeness
relational communication
communication patterns
family systems
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love
bell hooks
cannot exist in the
context of domination
What are your
communication patterns?
SenseMaking Forums
$25 per space
Making sense of our world.
What has become normal?
Story Sensing
Narratives
Asking "why" about our
experiences with the world.
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What's your story?
What takes form?
How does it inform?
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Monday, June 22nd @ 12:00 pm
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stories
inquiries-performances
listening-storytelling
narrative sensemaking
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an earlier story
Arthur W. Frank (2010)
works to hold us to a particular understanding of our lives
Asking why about our world.
Rights Equality
American Idealism
Communicating in and through
an uncertain world.
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What is the American dream?
Who does it serve?
Who does it subjugate?
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Saturday, June 20th @ 1:00 pm
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neoliberalism
moral principles
rules of law
resilience
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an ideology
Chomsky & Robinson (2024)
the belief that their domination
is for the good of the dominated
How are our borders structured?
A Narrow Ridge
Practices of Good
The critique of monologue.
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Where are you positioned?
How are you persuaded?
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Monday, June 22nd @ 4:30 pm
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rhetorical approaches
strategic ambiguity
communication ethics
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the learner
Arnett, Harden-Fritz, &
Bell-McManus (2018)
one who meets difference without forgetting the limits of one's own situation and particular commitments to the good
What has been taken for granted?
Critical Consciousness
Forms of Discipline
Investigating the
commonsense assumptions.
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How did it come to be this way?
Who does it harm?
Who does it benefit?
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Monday, June 29th @ 4:30 pm
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consent-dissent
critical-cultural approaches
critical trauma studies
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critical inquiry
Fassett, Warren, & Nainby (2018)
asking complicated questions about the consequences of our (in)actions.
What are the basic assumptions?
Lead Learners
Followerships
Responding to both
diversity and inclusion.
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What is protected?
What is promoted?
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Monday, July 6th @ 4:30 pm
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organizational communication
communication pedagogy
qualitative methods
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communication
Mumby & Kuhn (2019)
the dynamic, ongoing process of
creating and negotiating meanings
What are the discretions?
Justice Journals
Identities
Expanding in our experiences
of identities.
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What's inside?
What's outside?
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Thursday, June 25th @ 6:00 pm
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standpoints-locations
identities-based approaches
interpersonal communication
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power
Mumby & Kuhn (2026)
a dynamic process of struggle that
rests on a complex relationship
between control and resistance
What is centered?
Human Dialogue
Competing Meanings
Willingness to risk change in our
perspectives of selves, others, and
the world we inhabit together.
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What is centered?
What is marginalized?
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Wednesday, July 1st @ 6:00 pm
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harmony building
conflict management
intercultural communication
relational dialectics theory
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turning points
Leslie A. Baxter (2011)
moments of heightened
dialogic struggle
What is marginalized?
CoCompositions
Cooperative Movements
Reflecting and acting upon the communication we witness.
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Communication for social change
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Saturday, June 27th @ 1:00 pm
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a right to be understood
a right to communicate
a right to the decision-making process
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oppression
Paulo Freire
the very structure of their thought
has been conditioned by the
contradictions of the concrete
existential situation by which
they were shaped
A right to assemble.
Communicating Media
Media & Technology
The historical record.
Freedom of the press
Coming Soon.
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sound reporting
podcasting
digital storytelling
photo/video journalism
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mutual authoring
Mikhail Bakhtin
the joint act of creating
Despair is not an option.
Folx Media
Freeing Our Living
Meaningful change does not
trickle from the top on down.
It happens when we act upon
time, space, and what we can
socially form and inform together from the
bottom on up.
Meaningful change happens in
and through communication.
Coming Soon.
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historical contexts
competing arguments
informed choices
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the power of the people
The Honourable Vida Yeboah (2006)
relies on people to endure, 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
What are the consequences
of our (in)actions?
