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SenseMakes, LLC
COMMUNICATION PERSPECTIVES
Worldviews
Making Sense Of Our World
Individuals make choices based on
what is communicated to them,
what they value, what they want, and what they can do.
worldviews
Kenneth Burke
a way of seeing is also a way of not seeing
Diversity & Inclusion
Communication
Effectiveness & Competence
Communication 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
Responding to both trauma and oppression.
Uncertainty
Effectiveness & Competence
To be is to communicate.
absolute death
Mikhail Bakhtin
(state of nonbeing)
being unheard, unrecognized, unremembered
What has been silenced?
Rights Equality
A Free Space
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Rights-based services that move toward
resilient and sustainable selves,
relationships, and communities.
a right to be understood
a right to communication
a right to the decision-making process
oppression
Paulo Freire
alienates us from inquiries and decision making
What has become normal?
State of Being
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Asking "why" about our direct
experiences with the world.
interpersonal growth
mindfulness
socionarratology
identities-based approaches
communicating fully
Bessel van der Kolk (2014)
the opposite of being traumatized
What's your story?
Meaning-In-The-Moment
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Willingness to risk change in our perspective of selves, others, and the world we inhabit together
relational growth
autonomy-connection
communication patterns
family systems
love
bell hooks
cannot exist in the context of domination
A relation between....
Structures of Power
Consultation: $100 per hour
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Investigating the commonsense assumptions.
professional growth
communication pedagogy
qualitative methods
intercultural communication
communication
Mumby & Kuhn (2019)
the dynamic, ongoing process of
creating and negotiating meanings
All that is not centered...
Folx Media
Social Change
A Free Space
For those who want to join in the struggle of
communicating in and through
an often uncertain world.
historical contexts
competing arguments
informed choices
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 gogether and form social movements in order to demand their rights
To be is to communicate.
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