Human Dialogue communication perspectives

Our Shared Humanity

A Communication Continuum

Frameworks and processes for sharing meanings with each other.

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

Forms Of Discipline

Consent & Dissent

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

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

Intersubjective

Understanding & Knowledge

The critique of monologue. This is why communication is important.

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

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

Communication

Effectiveness & Competence

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

Personal & Professional Growth

Upcoming Events

Folx Media

A Free Space

Responding to the lack of communication in our lives, relationships, and communities.

_________________ Contexts Competing Arguments Informed Choices _________________

oppression Paulo Freire alienates us from inquiries and decision making

Power

Resistance & Control

Human beings around the world are depending on the U.S. voting population to: vote for the environment vote for health care vote for civil/labor rights vote for cooperative movements

Rights Equality

Participation

Communicating in and through an often uncertain world.

___________________________ Communication For Social Change Pragmatist Approaches American Idealism Resilience ___________________________

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

Worldviews

Haves & Have Nots

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 seeing is also a way of not seeing

Neoliberalism

Moral Principles & Rules Of Law

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. policies, institutional priorities, and unprecedented protection of elite interests.

subjugation Stephen Porges bodies-minds conform to institutional forms

Communication

Diversity & Inclusion

Communication offers us 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 _____________________________

Resilience

Stability & Change

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

Social Change

The Power Of The People

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

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

Story Sensing

Experiences

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

__________________ SocioNarratology Narrative Inquiry Narrative SenseMaking Critical Trauma Studies __________________

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

Sociality

Temporal & Contextual

Individuals act within certain narratives.

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

Uncertainty

Actualities & Possibilities

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

Narratives

Inquiries & Performances

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

Stories

A Relation Between

Trauma's and . . . . Moving beyond what has been psychologized, what has been institutionalized, and those who have been granted a certain status. Focusing on storying our bodies and minds toward the possibilities of creating new experiences with others and our world.

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

A Narrow Ridge

Practices

Understanding 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.

Forms Of Knowledge

The Basic Assumptions

Often our suffering searches for answers in "private" psychological and/or institutional spaces where emperors, tricksters, 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

Reflection & Action

Communication ethics focuses on moving conversations about the "assumptions of good" from a private holding to publicly shared mappings.

learning Paulo Freire asking "why" about our world

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

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

Communication Ethics

A Sharing Between

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 ________________

CoAuthorings

Relationships

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

_____________________ Relational Communication Family Communication Communication Patterns _____________________

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

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 Feminist-Queer Approaches Human Perception 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 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?

Identities

Centers & Margins

What has been psychologically sealed? What has been institutionally ascribed? What are the discretions?

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, systematic process that allows people to reflect and build personal knowledge of one another and create shared meanings

Critical Consciousness

Cultures

Investigating the commonsense assumptions.

________________________ Organizational Communication Critical-Cultural Approaches Ethnography ________________________

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

Communication

Autonomy & Control

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

Lead Learners

Meanings

Responding to competing meanings with others.

_______________________ Communication Pedagogy Discourse-Based Approaches Institutional Systems ______________________

Consciousness

An Act Of Relating

Learning how to respond to one another.

consciousness Mikhail Bakhtin an ongoing, situated act of relating _________________________ answerability to others empathy for others' experiences a return to one's outsideness _________________________

d/Discourses

Competing Meanings

Historical-Relational-Sociocultural Expanding in our experiences of identities, relationships, and cultures.

discourse Leslie A. Baxter (2011) people have opposing needs that exist in dynamic tension and these tensions are evident in discourse

Dialogue

Harmony & Conflict

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

Peace

To Be Is To Communicate