One common thread may be refusal to be defined by power of others
On 5 Nov 2021, at 2:42 pm, Anna Crane <annarosecrane@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It’s a shame I think Ed that you focus on these women as sufferers. When
David writes those names I think of powerful force fields. And Elizabeth’s
call I think is to look at discourses of peace as radical practices that go
beyond the reactionary to the ‘proactionary’ just to completely make up a new
word ;)
I’m reminded of Audre Lorde’s words about difference between women in her
paper A Masters Tools will Never Dismantle the Master House.
“Difference must be not merely tolerated, but seen as a fund of necessary
polarities between which our creativity can spark like a dialectic... Only
within that interdependency of difference strengths, acknowledged and equal,
can the power to seek new ways of being in the world generate, as well as the
courage and sustenance to act where there are no charters.
Within the interdependence of mutual (nondominant) differences lies that
security which enables us to descend into the chaos of knowledge and return
with true visions of our future, along with the concomitant power to effect
those changes which can bring that future into being. Difference is that raw
and powerful connection from which our personal power is forged.”
I’m interested in descending into the chaos of knowledge to see what is being
made and what we can make in place of the masters old tools. If we talk to
and about him too much, he sits again comfortably at the centre, his house
intact.
Thanks for the invite!
Anna
On Fri, 5 Nov 2021 at 12:55 pm, David Rose <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Clarifying maybe…?
Woman that shaped my outlook and work was Nganyinytja (look her up)
What brought us together was dreadful effects of colonial process on Anangu
youth
But what she did and talked about was respect for traditions, love for
people, and solutions for the future
David
On 5 Nov 2021, at 12:34 pm, Edward McDonald <laomaa63@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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:
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
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