Dear all
Some interesting links being made here.
Elizabeth talks about "the language of peace and compassion", which David
sees as consonant with "positive discourse analysis", but what exactly is
the relationship between the two?: how does understanding inform doing, and
intellectual clarity feed into effective activism?
Elizabeth draws our attention to the Andrew Lamings of this world, as
presumably an (alleged) representative of toxic masculinity, while David
gives a roll call of the women who have suffered the worst and tragic
effects of a world of toxic masculinity, but are now us showing us the way
out of it
Do we need to "talk to" as well as "talk about" the toxic males, the
Andrew Lamings, Christian Porters, Mark Lathams, Alan Joneses of this world
whose power seems to stem from their masculinity, but whose exercise of
that power (arguably) reveals them as deeply uncertain of it?
Do we need to "hold up" the women who have suffered as *matres dolorosae*,
as models outside ourselves whose example we can emulate; or do we need to
use the example of their lives to turn the spotlight back on ourselves, and
see how we are implicated in the relations of power and violence in our
society?
I suspect this Special Interest Group is going to have a *lot* to talk
about!
best to all
Ed
On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 10:57 AM David Rose <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
This is great Elizabeth
We need more and more positive discourse analysis
How do Grace Tame, Rosie Batty, Greta Thunberg, Nyadol Nyuon ... touch our
hearts and minds?
David
On 5 Nov 2021, at 9:53 am, Elizabeth Thomson <ethomson15@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
motion to the meeting:
Dear All,
At the ASFLA Annual General Meeting this year, I put the following
to establish a Special Interest Group which seeks to research andunderstand the language of peace and compassion. It was seconded by Shooshi
Dreyfus and Rosemary Huisman and accepted unanimously.
in this area to grow the body of knowledge in relation to the registers of
My motivation for this is to foster and support SF linguistic research
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 trainingbased on any language evidence?
join me at the inaugural meeting to agree on the role of the SIG, its
I’d like to kick start the SIG by inviting interested researchers to
mission and structure. The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday 1 December
at 2.30pm via zoom. See the link below.
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88022388511?pwd=UEpxY0V6ZGQ3bkRncGVtTE9jT0FxQT09
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 880 2238 8511 Passcode: y9lGiiHh
shortly. If you wish to attend, please reply to this email. And if you
In the first instance, I will chair the meeting and send out an agenda
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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