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So before analyzing, before classifying, before thinking, before trying to 'do' anything-- we should listen. Categories and classifications play a large role in the institutions of mental health care for veterans, in the education of mental health professionals, and as tentative guides to perception. All too often, however, our mode of listening deteriorates into intellectual sorting, with the professional grabbing the veterans’ words from the air and sticking them in mental bins. To some degree that in institutionally and emotionally necessary, but listening this way destroys trust. At its worst our educational system produces counselors, psychiatrists, psychologists and therapists who resemble museum-goers whose experience consists of mentally saying “That’s cubist! . . . That’s El Greco!” And who never see anything they’ve looked at. 'Just listen!' say the veterans when telling mental health professionals what they need to know to work with them.”

Johnathan Shay, "Achilles in Vietnam," 1994.

In the art exhibition Systems of Pain/Networks of Resilience (Exhibition) Meghan Moe Beitiks presents artworks oriented around her performance-based research. Her research focuses on human perceptions of non-humans, relationships with nature, and how they connect to environmental stewardship. It includes interviews with people, as well as academic, cultural and visual research. The research findings act as prompts to create multi-dimensional artwork (i.e. video, performance, installation, or some combination). Beitiks is interested in engaging with questions about culture, including how it's created, what meaning it produces, and how those meanings reflect on her and her own perceptions. This exhibition, an exploration of recovery, includes Audio Description from Emily Smith Beitiks, Katie Murphy and Adam Harvey, as well photos by Jane Phillips, video by Miguel Cedillo, and a performing table by Jason Friedes. It was developed with the support of the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Residency 108, Studios Midwest, The Wassaic Project, and the Santa Fe Art Institute. Viewing hours: Monday – Friday: 8 a.m. – 9 p.m. Saturday: 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Sunday: CLOSED Image: Systems of Pain/Networks of Resilience (Portrait) by Meghan Moe Beitiks, 2017, photograph, 18 x 12 in. Art Coordinator: Cecilia Vargas, [email protected], (630) 466-2964 If you need a sign language interpreter or an accommodation for this event please contact the Art Coordinator. A minimum of two weeks notice is requested. Please note that all works include Audio Description. Waubonsee does not discriminate based on any characteristic protected by law in its programs and activities.

Systems of Pain/Networks of Resilience (Santa Fe), Santa Fe Art Institute, 2017. Photos by Jane Phillips. Audio Description by Adam Harvey, technical support by Alberto Romero.

We all know that when we make decisions in groups, they don't always go right -- and sometimes they go very wrong. How can groups make good decisions? With his colleague Dan Ariely, neuroscientist Mariano Sigman has been inquiring into how we interact to reach decisions by performing experiments with live crowds around the world. In this fun, fact-filled explainer, he shares some intriguing results -- as well as some implications for how it might impact our political system. In a time when people seem to be more polarized than ever, Sigman says, better understanding how groups interact and reach conclusions might spark interesting new ways to construct a healthier democracy.

The battle for Mosul has left the city caked in soot and shrouded in smog. When will the world realise that the environment is not merely a silent victim of war?

#conflict and development #environmental sustainability #sustainable development #environment #global development

A four-year, $43 million program is being welcomed in Vietnam, but many people say the effort is too little and too late.

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We live and work in an increasingly complex and dynamic world. The demands of working in such environments require that negotiators understand situations of conflict and work with these situations in correspondingly...

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Studio Shot, Santa Fe, 2017

as speakers we of course tailor our speech to our listener-- we might not tell our mother about the close call we had on the freeway the other night, but we will surely tell our best friend, using all the colorful expressions that we might keep in reserve in front of our parents. Thus, who our listeners are, their relationship to us, and the context of our interaction influence what we say, how we say it, and what details we include, emphasize, and omit. Moreover, as speakers we are also influenced by the listener's behavior. In certain cultures, for example, listeners are expected to indicate that they are listening by means of some degree of body posture, eye contect, gesture, and utterances like ums and ahs. Most people find it difficult to speak for long without these indications from the listener. Similarly, even when listeners perform all the indications of listening, but are otherwise preoccupied, speakers tend to slow down, stumble, and leave out more than they ordinarily would. In general, truly attentive listeners not only elicit more information from speakers, but they also facilitate the speakers long-term memory. And given that the primary access we have to memory is through language, it is clear that this separation is somewhat illusory.

Lisbeth Lipari, Listening, Thinking, Being: Towards an Ethics of Attunement, 2014, p.90

Sample of “Systems of Pain/Networks of Resilience (Portrait) (2017).” Thanks to the Wassaic Project.

(Moment 1), 2016. Thanks to Miguel Cedillo and Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.

We need to talk about what it means to feel agency. How do we experience our own empowerment as something that is healing, as something that enables us to become more resilient and more capable subjects? Foucault talks about this as an “increase in capacities.” Therapists won’t go to somebody who is traumatized or has substance abuse issues, and say, 'Look, just get over it.' It comes down to creating a much subtler and more detailed scaffolding that gives traumatized bodies opportunities to nurture that feeling of agency, stepwise—to provide an increasing sense of their own agency and empowerment. One doesn’t simply say, on day one, 'Get over it.' That’s where the ideology of will worries me. At the very least, whatever will is, we need to understand it as something that is not a metaphysical property but is something that is nurtured, something that is cultivated. It’s an effect of the circumstances, relationships, and economic location within which you find yourself. With that understanding, we can come to a much more textured appreciation of will.

Donovan O. Schaefer, Trinity College, Oxford

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Systems of Pain/Networks of Resilience (Installation One), 2016, Box Gallery, Knox College, Galesburg, Illinois

Systems of Pain/Networks of Resilience (New York), 2016

Filmed at Residency 108

The Nobel Peace Prize Committee confounded all expectations Friday, bypassing global figures and handing the award to the National Dialogue Quartet.

The group is dedicated to creating dialogue between disparate elements of Tunisian society.

"The quartet was formed in the summer of 2013 when the democratization process was in danger of collapsing as a result of political assassinations and widespread social unrest," the Nobel Committee said. "It established an alternative, peaceful political process at a time when the country was on the brink of civil war. It was thus instrumental in enabling Tunisia, in the space of a few years, to establish a constitutional system of government guaranteeing fundamental rights for the entire population, irrespective of gender, political conviction or religious belief."

The way we talk with each other makes a difference. And there is no single “best” way to talk. Little League coaches shout simple instructions to young players. Air traffic controllers speak in code with pilots. Debaters cite evidence that supports their stand and counters an opposing position. Activists proclaim short potent slogans to promote their causes. In each case, there is a purpose to be served, and a distinctive way of talking serves that purpose. A baseball player instantly shifts his position on hearing the coach’s abbreviated command. Collisions are averted through coded communication among people who speak different languages. Debaters argue for and against competing ideas. Activists’ slogans energize allies and summon others to join the cause. Dialogue is yet another way of talking that serves a distinct purpose. An effective dialogue reduces stereotyping and increases mutual understanding. Through dialogue, people who seem intractably opposed often change the way they view and relate to each other—even as they maintain the commitments that underlie their views. They often discover shared values and concerns which may lead to collaborative actions that were previously unthinkable.

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