SenseMakes, LLC
Communication Perspectives
Uncertainty
Actualities & Possibilities
communicating fully
Bessel van der Kolk M.D. (2014)
the opposite of being traumatized
What has been silenced?
Communication
Diversity & Inclusion
Communication practices that
move toward resilient and
sustainable selves, relationships,
and communities.
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absolute death
Mikhail Bakhtin
being unheard, unrecognized, unremembered
To be is to communicate.
$100 per hour
Frameworks and processes for
sharing meanings with each
other and understanding the
different contexts of our world.​
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communication
Julia T. Wood (2004)
a fluctuating, unpredictable,
multivocal process in which
uncertainty infuses encounters
between people and what
they mean and become
What has become normal?
SenseMaking Forums
$25 per event
Responding to both trauma
and systemic oppression.
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learning
Paulo Freire
asking why about our world
How are our borders structured?
Story Sensing
Experiences
A​sking "why" about our
experiences with the world.
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human perception
personality patterns
narrative sensemaking
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an earlier story
Arthur W. Frank (2010)
works to hold us to a particular understanding of our lives
What has become
institutionally ascribed?
Justice Journals
Identities
Expanding in our experiences
of identities and belonging.
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interpersonal communication
identities-based approaches
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power
Mumby & Kuhn (2026)
a dynamic process of struggle that
rests on a complex relationship
between control and resistance
Who has been granted status?
A Narrow Ridge
Practices
The critique of monologue.
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communication ethics
rhetorical approaches
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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
What has been taken for granted?
Lead Learners
Followerships
Forms of discipline.​
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intercultural communication
communication pedagogy
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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
What are the discretions?
Critical Consciousness
Cultures
Investigating the
commonsense assumptions.
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organizational communication
critical-cultural approaches
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critical inquiry
Fassett, Warren, & Nainby (2018)
asking complicated questions about the consequences of our (in)actions.
How do we assemble?
Folx Media
Social Change
Meaningful change does not
trickle from the top on down.
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It happens when we act upon
time, space, and what we can
socially form and inform together from the
bottom on up.
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Meaningful change happens in
and through communication.
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a right to be understood
a right to communicate
a right to the decision-making process
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the power of the people
The Honourable Vida Yeboah (2006)
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
Despair is not an option.