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
0413 324 325
