How can we live together with a little less murder?

In thinking about that question -- in holding it at the centre of all my work, I find myself curious about the ways power, threat, response, and responsibility circulate in our bodies, minds, stories, and ways of being together. I often wonder about how the things we can learn from our bodies, minds, and stories, can support ways of being together that are respectful and reciprocal. Right now, I'm working on developing tools and models that can support folks to train in times and spaces of relative peace in order to respond with clarity and kindness in times and spaces of overt conflict and dispute.

If we are research kin and the following language is meaningful to you, I am specifically interested in thinking about:

• somatic approaches to processing and movement in relation to experiences of traumatic affect;
• individual, collective, and institutional stamina for non-exiling practices of co-being and belonging that engage specifically, directly, post-pathologically, and responsively with abrasion, discomfort, conflict, dispute, hurt, and harm;
• strengths-based approaches to athletic conditioning methodology that are grounded in culturally-relevant systems of meaning;
• pedagogical approaches to support conscious engagement with (and intentional inhabitation of) one's axiological commitments and fidelities;
• emergent, iterative, creative, collective, and speculative research methodologies.

Current projects include:

• Axiology Clinic - an incubator for research-creative work done in non-traditional spaces such as: sport, physical activity, recreation, kinesiology, rehabilitative medicine, and rehabilitative technological spaces.
  • Just Breathe
  • The Slow Citation Project
  • Instruction Manuals for Gathering
• Supporting flourishing in academic spaces through lab cultural enactments of axiological commitment in the Just Movements CreateSpace and the Minor Praxis Lab
• Dissertation: Gathering space: Invitations to doing and being together

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