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Humanizing Tensions: Dialogic Possibilities
Sheila McNamee, PhD Professor of Communucation University of New Hampshire Founder & Vice President, Taos Institute
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The Process of Meaning Making
Rituals and Patterns Standards and expectations Values, beliefs Realities Coordinate
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DIFFERENT DISCURSIVE COMMUNITIES
RITUALS MORAL ORDERS COORDINATION STANDARDS AND EXPECTATIONS RITUALS MORAL ORDERS COORDINATION STANDARDS AND EXPECTATIONS
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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 &
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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
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Avoid judgment Avoid attempts to persuade or change the other Seek new ways of understanding (dis)connecting tensions
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