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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)

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Resistance & Control

Upcoming Events

communicating fully
Bessel van der Kolk (2014)
the opposite of being traumatized

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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

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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

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What has been silenced?

Relationships

Expanding in our experiences of relationships in and through communication.

Relational Growth
Communication Patterns
Family Systems

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A relation between.

Trauma Perspectives

Developing body-mind awareness that facilitates embodied safety and presence

Embodied Patterns
Mental Health Counseling
Somatic Consultation

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Trauma Counselor & Educator.

Communication Perspectives

Sharing meanings with others and understanding the different contexts of our world.

Interpersonal Growth
Communication - Identities
Qualitative Approaches

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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.

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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.

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Bookstore

Story Sensing

 A Narrow Ridge

Rights Equality

Justice Journals

Lead Learners

CoAuthorings

Critical Consciousness

Storyings

Contact
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Get In Touch

Start Your Journey to Wellbeing

*woman- & disability-owned business

Phone

352-756-1466

Email

Address

Gainesville, FL

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