Human Dialogue communication perspectives

Our Shared Humanity

A Communication Continuum

What I offer is a more in-depth understanding of communication frameworks and processes.

absolute death (state of nonbeing) Mikhail Bakhtin being unheard, unrecognized, unremembered

Communication

Effectiveness & Competence

Learning how to share meanings with others and understand different contexts.

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

Responsiveness

Uniqueness & Wholeness

Learning how to respond to one another. This is why communication is so important.

______________ Being heard Being recognized Being remembered _______________

Human Condition

Demands Our Response

What are the consequences of our (in)actions?

communication Julia T. Wood (2004) a fluctuating, unpredictable, multivocal process in which uncertainty infuses encounters between people and what they mean and become

Uncertainty

Possibilities & Actualities

Communicating in and through an often uncertain world.

Story Sensing

Narratives

Individuals act within particular narratives.

_________________ Narrative Inquiry Narrative SenseMaking SocioNarratology Critical Trauma Studies _________________

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

State Of Being

Time & Space

Uncertainty demands frameworks and processes that can move beyond the fragmentations, reductions, and causal explanations that are all too often privileged in our world.

human needs Abraham Maslow (1968) we communicate to meet a range of human needs

Trauma

Narratives Of Selfhood

Early attachment experiences echo their stories through our bodies, nervous systems, and relationships as we grow and develop.

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

Experiences

Self-Concept & Social Support

Our stories are how we co-create and share meanings with others as we navigate our experiences in and through the temporal, social, and contextual realities of our world.

experience John Dewey (1938) continuity and interaction enacted in situations

Stories

Trauma's And . . . .

A relation between. The critique of monologue. Moving beyond what has been psychologized, what has been institutionalized, and those who have been granted a certain status.

each word Mikhail Bakhtin tastes of the context and contexts in which it has lived a socially charged life

Coherence

Selfhood & Interbeing

Focusing on storying our bodies and minds toward the possibilities of creating new experiences with others and our world.

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

CoAuthorings

Relationships

We expand in our experiences of relationships in and through communication.

_____________________ Relational Communication Family Communication Communication Patterns Stress - Resilience ____________________

love bell hooks cannot exist in the context of domination

Attachment

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.

relationships Guerrero, Andersen, & Afifi (2021) ongoing interactions between people

Uncertainty

Expectations & Social Norms

A more in-depth understanding of communication is key to expanding in our experiences across roles, interpersonal relationships, and close relationships. What is your level of relational satisfaction?

Our relationships often move us to expand in our understandings and engage in new frameworks and processes for inclusivity. What are your communication patterns?

Relationships

Communication Patterns

For many of us, close relationships and chosen families are where we locate our sense of being, belonging, and community.

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.

Family Systems

Stress & Resilience

Relationships can adapt and transform. Across health-related, intergenerational, workplace, financial, and societal stress our relationships have the capacity to be resilient and flourish if they can engage in effective and competent communication processes.

Justice Journals

Identities

Selves develop in and through communication with others.

_______________________ Interpersonal Communication Human Perception Identities-Based 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 ongoing frameworks and processes to expand what we notice, how we organize our relationships with others, and the ways we interpret our world.

Interdependence

Selves & Others

What has been defined, appraised, scripted, attached, ascribed, and/or generalized in our relationships with others and our world?

Communication

Standpoints & Locations

Communication offers us possibilities to expand in our experiences of identities across the continuum of personal growth, performances, relationships, and communities.

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

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

______________________ Intercultural Communication Critical-Cultural Approaches Ethnography ______________________

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

Communication

Reflection & Action

Communication offers possibilities to understand and address diversity, inequality, and inclusion as ideological and structural issues that we can respond to in our practices, discourses, and systems.

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

subjugation Stephen Porges bodies-minds conform to institutional forms

Resilience

Stability & Change

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

Cultures

Diversity & Inclusion

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 frameworks and processes to question and challenge what we experience in our shared power.

_________________________ How did it come to be this way? 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

Social Change

The Power Of The People

Willingness to risk change in our perspectives of selves, others, and the world we inhabit together.

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

Lead Learners

D/discourses

Responding to competing meanings with others.

_______________________ Communication Pedagogy Discourse-Based Approaches Institutional Systems ______________________

learning Paulo Freire asking why about our world

Consciousness

An Act Of Relating

Addressing what has been psychologically sealed and institutionally ascribed.

consciousness Mikhail Bakhtin an ongoing, situated act of relating _______________________________ answerability to an other's whole being empathy for others' experiences a return to one's outsideness ______________________________

Meanings

Historical-Relational-Sociocultural

Understanding how to create and negotiate meanings with others. Expanding in our experiences of identities, relationships, and cultures.

Dialogue

Harmony & Conflict

Exploring the dialogical possibilities of how we can embody, interpret, relate to, and commune with the uncertainties of our world.

A Narrow Ridge

Practices

Exploring multiple sides of issues. Moving beyond the psychological and institutional assumptions that privilege only those of a certain status.

__________________ Communication Ethics Rhetorical Approaches Strategic Ambiguity Political Systems _________________

the learner Arnett, Harden-Fritz, & Bell-McManus (2018) one who meets difference without forgetting the limits of one's own situation and particular commitments to the good

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.

Debate

Positions & Persuasions

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

The Tricksters

The Helper's Assumption

Often our stories of suffering contain a 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 out-dated, so-called knowledge. They're afraid of the public. Yet, it's the public they serve.

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

Communication Ethics

A Sharing Between

Communication ethics is about moving conversations about the "good" 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 their assembly.

Arnett, Harden-Fritz, & Bell-McManus (2018) ________________ Narrative Accounts Shared Mappings Public Commitments ________________

Rights Equality

Systems

Asking "why" about direct experiences with the world. Investigating the commonsense assumptions.

________________________ Organizational Communication Postcolonial Approaches Collective Decision Making American Idealism _______________________

American Idealism

Moral Principles & Rules Of Law

Our economic and political system has been designed to diminish, 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. policies, institutional priorities, and unprecedented protection of elite interests.

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

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

Forms Of Discipline

Consent & Dissent

We must be quiet when the emperor and/or his team comes around. Do not, under any circumstances, ask questions. We must not speak of the taken for granted or his discretion. We may have to turn on each other.

Intersubjective

Understanding & Knowledge

How does knowledge take form? How does it inform? What are the basic assumptions?

Communication

Autonomy & Control

Challenging the ideologies and structures that impose absolutes onto our social realities.

communication Mumby & Kuhn (2019) the dynamic, ongoing process of creating and negotiating meanings

Folx Media

Social Change

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.

__________________________ Communication For Social Change Independent Media __________________________

Freeing Our Living

An Ongoing Struggle

What happens when we disagree about how we are going to live together? Will we respond to the dissent? Will we commit to being in the struggle with others?

Communication

Resistance & Control

Human beings around the world are pleading for the U.S. voting population to: vote YES for the environment vote YES for health care vote YES for collective civil/labor rights

________________ historical context competing arguments informed choices _________________

Peace

Take Good Care

Responding to the lack of communication in our lives, relationships, and communities. Moving toward connection with each other.