Tired of getting confronted by screamers disrupting our shared public and professional spaces? Here's how to take the power back.
When confronted with this bodily assault, too many of us simply fold because we don't know how to process it.Screaming is gaining power in social discourse because our overly rational culture is built on denying some important embodied realities. For business and political reasons, we’ve crafted a society that pretendsSeeing public events get increasingly disrupted by screamers struck me for how normalized this behaviour has become.
These abilities, from the capacity to reach out and grasp an object that’s in front of us, to the capability of hearing the sound of thunder from a flash of lightning that is many miles away, are inseparably linked. Together they form what Thelen describes as “the matrix within which The message that often gets shared is “mind over matter,” meaning our thinking can impact physical reality. This is true, but so is “body over mind.” We can change the way we think by changing the way we are sitting or changing our patterns of breath.I was once confronted by a superior with the classically racist, “Why are you people the source of all my problems?” While my colleagues were horrified, none would speak out. Why?"I don’t want him to start screaming at me.
Just the other day I was at a meeting where a deeply one-sided and problematic motion was forwarded. As colleagues spoke in favour of the motion, one even started his remarks by asserting he has no idea why anyone would vote against it. And yet, the minute a countervailing voice rose to explain why one might object, he was amongst the first to start hectoring, as the cavalcade of screaming began.professor, that we can learn by eating, singing, and dancing as much as by arguing.
Arnal, L.H., Flinker, A., Kleinschmidt, A., Giraud, A.L., & Poeppel, D. 2015. Human screams occupy a privileged niche in the communication soundscape. Current Biology, 25: 2051-6., is a writer, consultant, and professor of management at York University, who advocates for co-creation, not management.
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