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SenseMakes, LLC
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Welcome
Sunni & Brian
We offer rights-based services that move toward resilient and sustainable selves, relationships, and communities.
Consultation Services
"if you want to improve the world, start by making people feel safe" Stephen Porges (2017)

Resistance & Control
Upcoming Events
communicating fully
Bessel van der Kolk (2014)
the opposite of being traumatized

Autonomy & Connection
What Sets Us Apart?
A Rights-Based Approach
Our capacity to respond to both
trauma and oppression.
This is why communication is so important.
oppression
Paulo Freire
alienates us from inquiries and decision-making

Standing up for our rights.
Making Sense of Our World
Asking "why" about our direct experiences with the world.
Inquiries-Performances
SocioNarratology
Narrative SenseMaking
Critical Trauma Studies
absolute death
Mikhail Bakhtin
state of nonbeing
being unheard, unrecognized, unremembered

What has been silenced?
Relationships
Expanding in our experiences of relationships in and through communication.
Relational Growth
Communication Patterns
Family Systems

A relation between.
Trauma Perspectives
Developing body-mind awareness that facilitates embodied safety and presence
Embodied Patterns
Mental Health Counseling
Somatic Consultation

Trauma Counselor & Educator.
Communication Perspectives
Sharing meanings with others and understanding the different contexts of our world.
Interpersonal Growth
Communication - Identities
Qualitative Approaches

Communicator & Organizer
Counselor Education
Cultivating a professional practice grounded in critical trauma theory and professional ethics
Stress - Trauma
Counseling Ethics
Counselor Supervision

Our collaborative team.
Meaning-In-The-Moment
Willingness to risk change in our perspectives of selves, others, and the world we inhabit together.
Communication Ethics
Communication Pedagogy
Organizational Systems

Learning from each other.
Folx Media
The Power Of The People
For thosae who want to join us in the ongoing struggle.
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.
a right to be understood
a right to communicate
a right to the decision-making process

To be is to communicate.

Contact

Get In Touch
Start Your Journey to Wellbeing
*woman- & disability-owned business
Phone
352-756-1466
Address
Gainesville, FL
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