Humanizing Tensions: Dialogic Possibilities Sheila McNamee, PhD Professor of Communucation University of New Hampshire Founder & Vice President, Taos Institute

The Process of Meaning Making Rituals and Patterns Standards and expectations Values, beliefs Realities Coordinate

DIFFERENT DISCURSIVE COMMUNITIES RITUALS MORAL ORDERS COORDINATION STANDARDS AND EXPECTATIONS RITUALS MORAL ORDERS COORDINATION STANDARDS AND EXPECTATIONS

MULTIPLE DISCURSIVE COMMUNITIES RITUALS MORAL ORDER COORDINATION STANDARDS EXPECTATIONS & RITUALS MORAL ORDER COORDINATION STANDARDS EXPECTATIONS & RITUALS MORAL ORDER COORDINATION STANDARDS EXPECTATIONS & RITUALS MORAL ORDER COORDINATION STANDARDS EXPECTATIONS & RITUALS MORAL ORDER COORDINATION STANDARDS EXPECTATIONS & RITUALS MORAL ORDER COORDINATION STANDARDS EXPECTATIONS & RITUALS MORAL ORDER COORDINATION STANDARDS EXPECTATIONS & RITUALS MORAL ORDER COORDINATION STANDARDS EXPECTATIONS & RITUALS MORAL ORDER COORDINATION STANDARDS EXPECTATIONS & RITUALS MORAL ORDER COORDINATION STANDARDS EXPECTATIONS & RITUALS MORAL ORDER COORDINATION STANDARDS EXPECTATIONS & RITUALS MORAL ORDER COORDINATION STANDARDS EXPECTATIONS &

Resources for Humanizing Tensions Avoid speaking from abstract positions Engage in self reflexive inquiry Engage in relationally reflexive inquiry Coordinate multiplicities Use the familiar in unfamiliar contexts Examine institutional/dominant discourses Be attentive to isolation and alienation Imagine the future

Avoid judgment Avoid attempts to persuade or change the other Seek new ways of understanding (dis)connecting tensions