Dear Elizabeth,
I would love to take part in the group discussion tomorrow, thank you.
Regards,
Elsa Siahaan
On Wed, Nov 24, 2021, 13:39 Elizabeth Thomson <ethomson15@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear All,
Please find attached the Agenda for the first meeting of the Special
Interest Group on the language of peace and compassion (SIG P&C). The
meeting is Dec 1, 2.30-4pm AEDT. The zoom details are below. Please note
that the meeting invite will be coming from my business account, Coaching
to Clarity, just in case this is confusing.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88022388511?pwd=UEpxY0V6ZGQ3bkRncGVtTE9jT0FxQT09
Meeting ID: 880 2238 8511 Passcode: y9lGiiHh
At the meeting, I’m hoping to tap into the wisdom of the attendees to
collectively establish the Identity and Purpose of the group. This will
involve using the break-out room facility and a Google doc which we
will populate both individually and collectively. In order to share the
Google doc, I ask those of you who wish to attend to *RSVP by November 30
by replying to this email*. I will then be able to share the Google doc
with you prior to the meeting.
For those of you that have contacted me, please know that I have gathered
together your areas of interest. There will be an opportunity in the
meeting to share your interest(s) as we negotiate Identity and Purpose.
And in the cases where you aren’t able to attend, I will ensure your
contribution is included.
I’ll looking forward to the meeting and working together.
Warm regards,
Elizabeth Thomson
On 5 Nov 2021, at 9:53 am, Elizabeth Thomson <ethomson15@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Dear All,
At the ASFLA Annual General Meeting this year, I put the following motion
to the meeting:
to establish a Special Interest Group which seeks to research and
understand the language of peace and compassion. It was seconded by
Shooshi Dreyfus and Rosemary Huisman and accepted unanimously.
My motivation for this is to foster and support SF linguistic research in
this area to grow the body of knowledge in relation to the registers of
peace, compassion and inclusion. Adversarial language is everywhere but
what about language choices which socially connect and include? I’m
reminded of the ‘empathy training’ for Andrew Lamming.
https://theconversation.com/andrew-laming-why-empathy-training-is-unlikely-to-work-158050
What did he learn in his online course, I wonder? And was his training
based on any language evidence?
I’d like to kick start the SIG by inviting interested researchers to join
me at the inaugural meeting to agree on the role of the SIG, its mission
and structure. The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday 1 December at
2.30pm via zoom. See the link below.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88022388511?pwd=UEpxY0V6ZGQ3bkRncGVtTE9jT0FxQT09
Meeting ID: 880 2238 8511 Passcode: y9lGiiHh
In the first instance, I will chair the meeting and send out an agenda
shortly. If you wish to attend, please reply to this email. And if you
have an agenda item, send it through. Please note that the zoom meeting is
coming from my business zoom account, thus the name Coaching2Clarity.
Looking forward to seeing you.
Warm regards,
Elizabeth
0413 324 325
