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  • Week 5: On feedback

    We’ve spent this week examining structures for giving and receiving feedback. Including Liz Lerman’s Critical Response ProcessSM, the DAS Graduate School (2013) A Film About Feedback, along with theories of non-violent communication developed by psychologist Marshall Rosenberg. The readings and film have led me to reflect on situations in my work when I’ve been giving…

  • Week 4: On the presentation of self

    “…everyone is always and everywhere, more or less consciously, playing a role… It is in these roles that we know each other; it is in these roles that we know ourselves.” Goffman, E. (1959). The presentation of self in everyday life. Anchor Books. This week, ahead of our session on interviewing, we were tasked with…

  • Week 2 & 3: On knowledge

    Week 2 & 3: On knowledge

    Beginning this course marks a return to formal education for me, 13 years after finishing my undergraduate degree. And while I know I have gained a lot of knowledge and skills in that time, beginning to read the course literature has got me thinking about how we accumulate knowledge. In our week 2 readings and…