Dear Elizabeth
I would like to participate in your special interest group on December 1st.
Cheers
John
Dr. John Walsh
Visiting Research Fellow
Department of Linguistics
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The University of Adelaide, AUSTRALIA 5005
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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<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<mailto: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<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<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
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