This talk was given at Peace House in Oxford on the 21st November, 2013, during a workshop on Gentleness, Trust, and Activism, as part of the Northumbria University project, "Effectiveness in Action: Exploring the role of the Durkheimian ‘sacred’ in motivating community action, using reflexive and gently disruptive co-research methodologies." The talk includes discussions of:
- What I mean by gentleness
- What I mean by a politics of gentleness
- What I mean by enclosure
- What role the 'elimination of uncertainty' plays in enclosure
- What I mean by a 'critical vernacular ecology'
 
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A Politics of Gentleness: towards a critical vernacular ecology

This talk was given as a keynote at the Enhancing Practice 14 healthcare conference on Practice Development in Toronto in late September, 2014. 

Full text of the talk is available at: http://anthonymccann.wordpress.com/2014/09/27/the-heart-of-care-changing-the-cultural-climate-equation/

The He(art) of Care: Changing the Culture Change Equation

Dr. Anthony McCann is a consultant, coach, and trainer. Anthony is the founder and director of Hummingbird Culture Change. 

He holds the positions of Research Associate with the Smithsonian Institution’s Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage (Washington DC), Visiting Fellow with the University of Bristol's Graduate School of Education, and Associate of the Center for Emergent Diplomacy (Santa Fe). An experienced public speaker, he has delivered seminars at the U.S. Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the University of Chicago, the University of California Los Angeles, the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, and Indiana University, among others.​  

For more details please visit http://www.anthonymccann.com



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