Lead Learners cultures

Group Experience: $35 per person

Intersubjective

Understanding & Knowledge

This is a space for those who want to understand more about intercultural communication, organizational communication, and resilience.

worldviews

a way of seeing is also a way of not seeing

Kenneth Burke

Forms Of Discipline

Consent & Dissent

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

Communication

Reflection & Action

Communication offers us an ongoing process and frameworks to both understand and address diversity, inequality, and inclusion as structural issues that can be responded to in our practices, discourses, and systems. Here, we will question and challenge our direct experiences with the cultures we participate in and our world.

critical inquiry

asking complicated questions and sorting through the implications of our (in)actions

Fassett, Warren, & Nainby (2018)

What has been structurally determined?

communication

the dynamic, ongoing process of creating and negotiating meanings through interactional symbolic practices, including conversation, metaphors, rituals, stories, dress, and space

Mumby & Kuhn (2019)

Organizations

Autonomy & Control

Communication is central to how we understand each other and what we are constructing together. We will take a critical-cultural perspective as we reflect on the communication we offer and witness. We will also explore frameworks for qualitative methodologies (i.e., (auto)ethnographic, rhetorical, pragmatist, phenomenological, postcolonial, communicative constitution of organizations, etc.)

Where are we contradicted in our world?

Resilience

Stability & Change

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.

The Power Of The People

relies on people to endure

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

The Honourable Vida Yeboa (2006)

What is our individual agency in it?

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