Consultation: Appointment Only Next SenseMaking Forum: [date-time]
A Relation Between
Sameness & Difference
Engaging in new frameworks and processes of inclusivity. What are the possibilities between us?
a relation between Mikhail Bakhtin the simultaneity of sameness and difference in which knowing becomes possible
Attachments
Selves & Others
Our experiences of relationships are often riddled with patterns of our past, our capacity for sociality, and the possibilities of where we can be located.
loneliness Thich Nhat Hanh (2013) the suffering of our time
Personality Patterns
Inclusions & Exclusions
Understanding our personality patterns helps us negotiate how we take in and process information from the outside world. What gets excluded in our relationships?
the Enneagram Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. describes nine fundamental or "core" patterns of personality that each have unique ways of processing emotions, directing thought, and driving behavior
Relationships
Communication Patterns
Expanding in our experiences across roles, interpersonal relationships, and close relationships. What types of relationships are we living in?
relationships Guerrero, Andersen, & Afifi (2021) ongoing interactions between people
Meanings
Historical-Relational-Sociocultural
Understanding more about how to create, negotiate, and maintain meanings with others.
consciousness Mikhail Bakhtin an ongoing, situated act of relating ________________________ answerability to others empathy for others' experiences a return to one's outsideness ________________________
Communication
Autonomy & Closeness
Relationships are constantly changing. Communication offers fluid, ongoing processes that focus on the meanings between us as we live in and through the historical, relational, and sociocultural contexts of our world. What is your level of relational satisfaction?
Families
Communication Patterns
Our chosen families are often where we locate our sense of being, belonging, and community. Understanding our communication patterns in our relationships with others.
Resilience
Stability & Change
Relationships can adapt and transform. Across health-related, intergenerational, workplace, financial, and societal stress our relationships have the capacity be resilient and flourish if they can engage in effective and competent communication processes.
turning points Leslie A. Baxter (2011) moments of heightened dialogic struggle
Discourses
Competing Meanings
Responding to competing meanings in our relationships with others.
discourse Leslie A. Baxter (2011) a set of propositions that cohere around a given object of meaning
Dialogue
Uniqueness & Wholeness
Exploring the dialogical possibilities of how we can embody, interpret, relate to, and commune with the uncertainties of our world.
mutual authoring Mikhail Bakhtin the joint act of creating
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