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Communication

Horizontal & Participatory

______________________________ a right to be understood a right to communicate a right to the decision-making process ______________________________

Our Commitment

Effectiveness & Competence

We are committed to literacy, our learning experiences, and empowering the stories related to the topics and conversations described below. In this, we will prioritize communication processes, ongoing debates, qualitative approaches, and frameworks for understanding the various contexts of each other and our world.

worldviews Kenneth Burke a way of seeing is also a way of not seeing

The Power Of The People

relies on people to endure The Honourable Vida Yeboa (2006) 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

__________________ an informed electorate competing arguments historical context __________________

Story Sensing

Narratives

Individuals act within particular narratives. _________________ What's your story? What takes form? How does it inform? ________________

___________________ Narrative Inquiry Narrative Sense Making Critical Trauma Studies ___________________

an earlier story Arthur W. Frank (2010) works to hold people to a particular understanding of their lives

Human Needs

Early Attachment

Early attachment experiences echo their stories through our bodies, nervous systems, and relationships as we grow and develop. Communication offers us possibilities to reshape these narratives.

Experiences

Self-Concept & Social Support

Narratives offer us possibilities to co-create and share meanings with others as we experience the temporal, social, and contextual realities of our world.

Trauma

Narratives Of Selfhood

Stories sustain us across historical, relational, and sociocultural contexts. Here, we will story our bodies and minds toward the possibilities of creating new experiences with others and our world.

The Helper

What Is Assumed?

Often stories of suffering contain the search for answers in hollowed out institutions, where tricksters, emperors, and anointed queens can be found wandering the halls, collecting their status, and practicing their discretion while offering crumbs of old-school, so-called knowledge. This is precisely how our stories become distorted and why being our own agent in our narrative is so important.

Coherence

Selfhood & Interbeing

Narratives offer us a process for the movements between who we are and who we're becoming.

loneliness Thich Nhat Hanh (2013) the suffering of our time

A Narrow Ridge

Practices Of Good

Our understanding of communication is central to how competently and effectively we can participate in the ongoing debate of where we are positioned and how we are persuaded in our world.

__________________ Communication Ethics Rhetorical Approaches Strategic Ambiguity Political Systems _________________

a right to exist Martin Buber If one of the parties in discourse does not agree on the value of conversation, or even on the right of the other party to exist, there is little opportunity for shared learning. In such cases, dialogue is simply not possible.

Intersubjective

Understanding & Knowledge

narrative ground Walter Fisher (1987) we need to be able to articulate and offer a public account of the good in which we believe and that propels our communicative action in public and private life

knowledge Mumby & Kuhn (2019) a highly contested, contingent, and ever-changing process

Debate

Practices-Discourses-Systems

Communication offers us an ongoing process to explore the multiple sides of issues.

__________________________ What has been psychologized? What has been institutionalized? Who has been granted status? _________________________

subjugation Stephen Porges bodies-minds conforming to institutional forms

Communication Ethics

Sharing Between Persons

Communication ethics is about moving conversations about the "good(s)" from a private holding to publicly shared mappings. As communication claims the priority a new bond takes form between followers and leaders. The followers begin to lead in their assembly.

Arnett, Harden-Fritz, & Bell-McManus (2018) _________________ public accounts an ethical map public commitments shapes identities reforms institutions _________________

the oppressed Paulo Freire the very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradictions of the concrete, existential situation by which they were shaped

Lead Learners

Followerships

Communication offers us frameworks for understanding and addressing diversity, inequality, and inclusion as structural issues that can be responded to in our practices, discourses, and systems.

_______________________ Communication Pedagogy Forms of Discipline Discourse-Based Approaches Sociomaterialism Resilience ______________________

oppression Paulo Freire alienates us from inquiry and decision making

Forms Of Discipline

Consent & Dissent

We must be quiet when the emperor and/or members of his team come around. We must not speak of the taken for granted or his discretion. Do not, under any circumstances, ask questions.

control processes Mumby & Kuhn (2019) _______________________ direct: subordinate technological: productivity bureaucratic: merit system ideological: values-beliefs biocratic: life itself _______________________

Resilience

Stability & Change

human resilience Patrice M. Buzzanell constituted in and through communicative processes that enhance people's ability to create new normalcies

Communication

Reflection & Action

communication Mumby & Kuhn (2019) the dynamic, ongoing process of creating and negotiating meanings through interactional symbolic practices, including conversation, metaphors, rituals, stories, and space.

Justice Journals

Identities

Selves develop in and through communication with others.

________________________ Interpersonal Communication Critical Feminist Approaches Queer Approaches AutoEthnography _______________________

interpersonal needs William Schutz (1966) we create and sustain relationships to meet three basic needs: love / affection, inclusion, and influence / control

Human Perception

An Active Process

Communication offers us an ongoing process and frameworks to expand what we notice, how we organize our relationships with others, and the multiple ways we can interpret our world.

Identities

Standpoints & Locations

Communication offers us possibilities to expand in our experiences of identities across the continuum of personal growth, performances, relationships, and communities. Here, we will explore what has been defined, appraised, scripted, attached, ascribed, and/or generalized in our relationships with others and our world.

interpersonal communication Julia T. Wood (2020) a selective, systemic process that allows people to reflect and build personal knowledge of one another and create shared meanings

Critical Consciousness

Cultures

________________________ Intercultural Communication Critical-Cultural Approaches Intersectionality Strong Black Woman Collectives Ethnography _______________________

Communication

Diversity & Inclusion

Asking "why" about our direct experiences with the world.

culture Fassett, Warren, Nainby (2018) assumptions that draw people together within a social context of shared power

A Critical Perspective

A Form Of Inquiry

Communication offers us a process to question and challenge what we are directly experiencing and witnessing within the cultures we participate in.

_______________________________ How did it come to be the way that it is? Who does it harm? Who does it benefit? _______________________________

critical inquiry Fassett, Warren, & Nainby (2018) asking complicated questions and sorting through the implications of our (in)actions

Rights Equality

Structures Of Power

Individuals make choices based on what is communicated to them, what they value, what they want, and what they can do.

___________________________ Organizational Communication Postcolonial Approaches Neoliberalism Propaganda Systems Communication For Social Change ___________________________

Neoliberalism

Moral Principles & Rules of Law

an ideology Chomsky & Robinson (2024) the belief that their domination is for the good of the dominated

_______________________ What is the American dream? Who does it serve? Who does it subjugate? _______________________

Social Isolation

The Human Divide

Tragically, our economic and political system has been designed to diminish the safety nets, social fabrics, and human rights that are central to resilient, sustainable communities. This is because a horrendous amount of special interest money has been infused into both political parties to determine U.S. foreign and domestic policies, institutional priorities, and unprecedented protection of elite interests.

Social Change

A Participatory Process

Meaningful change does not trickle from the top on down. It happens when we act upon time, space, and what we relationally and socially sustain together from the bottom on up. Meaningful change happens in and through communication.

Human beings around the world are pleading for the United States voting population to: vote YES for the environment, vote YES for humanity, and vote YES for collective civil / labor rights.