Participatory sensemaking. Situated personhood. Art as relationship. Building relationship through art. Absolute presence of attention. Exquisite sensitivity.
Love this...“Look at that question with respect to someone who's stripped of their ability to contribute to society in a financial way, to contribute their skills - where do they find meaning in life? In the end, it comes down to relationships, comes down to their capacity to be in relationship with others"
And I would add, what do they have to teach us when we stop assuming we are the knowers? What is the message they are bringing to me?
This is all so nourishing to read. These are words that help me to understand more profoundly what I do and what my meaning in life may be.
Eryn I thought of you and how you exemplify these values all the time when I was talking to Stef, Ariane and Naomi and when I was writing this piece up. And I love your addition: "what do they have to teach us when we stop assuming we are the knowers? What is the message they are bringing to me?"
This one resonates with me personally and professionally from beginning to end, from the way you describe interacting with someone who is dealing with addiction to the poem and 'those near and far'. I appreciate the clear focus on medical practice and how you show that this can be humane and personal without becoming about only that, without becoming a matter of over-interpretation, for example. More and more lately it seems clear PSM is the place to focus and take seriously how bodies make the world in interactions, and how this includes what we mean by mind and feeling as well. It is also uplifting to remember that people are out there trying to help one another, and that this motivation is behind much of our science and academic work.
Participatory sensemaking. Situated personhood. Art as relationship. Building relationship through art. Absolute presence of attention. Exquisite sensitivity.
Love this...“Look at that question with respect to someone who's stripped of their ability to contribute to society in a financial way, to contribute their skills - where do they find meaning in life? In the end, it comes down to relationships, comes down to their capacity to be in relationship with others"
And I would add, what do they have to teach us when we stop assuming we are the knowers? What is the message they are bringing to me?
This is all so nourishing to read. These are words that help me to understand more profoundly what I do and what my meaning in life may be.
Eryn I thought of you and how you exemplify these values all the time when I was talking to Stef, Ariane and Naomi and when I was writing this piece up. And I love your addition: "what do they have to teach us when we stop assuming we are the knowers? What is the message they are bringing to me?"
This one resonates with me personally and professionally from beginning to end, from the way you describe interacting with someone who is dealing with addiction to the poem and 'those near and far'. I appreciate the clear focus on medical practice and how you show that this can be humane and personal without becoming about only that, without becoming a matter of over-interpretation, for example. More and more lately it seems clear PSM is the place to focus and take seriously how bodies make the world in interactions, and how this includes what we mean by mind and feeling as well. It is also uplifting to remember that people are out there trying to help one another, and that this motivation is behind much of our science and academic work.
Thank you Andrea! That really moves me coming from you! And I am thinking much the same way about PSM.