Making Sense of Sense-Breaking

Ybema, Sierk; Willems, Thijs

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“…As Giuliani has stated, “Sense-breaking occurs when a person’s process of sensemaking is disrupted by contradictory evidence, that is, it is concerned with breaks in the scanning, interpretation, and learning dynamics of the sensemaking process” (2016: 221). And yet, as Van Vuuren (paraphrased in Ybema & Willems) has stated, “the breaking of meaning asks for the giving of meaning” (2015: 5). Thus, any startling change may be seen as the breaking of meaning and may well call forth the impulse to give meaning.…”

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“…Sensemaking, or the act by which we “cognitively map a potentially confusing world” (Ybema and Willems, 2015: 3), may spawn new paradigms in the midst of a cosmology episode, during which “previous experiences fail to provide orientation for understanding the present reality” (Weick, 1993: 633). While sensemaking has largely been discussed in the literature as retrospective (cf., Brown et al, 2015), for the purposes of this article we also take up the project of prospective sensemaking, the deliberate act of anticipating what comes next—in effect, creating the narrative tools by which future actors might make sense of unexpected events 4 .…”

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“A distant mirror”: Sensemaking in the era of Trump

2020

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Sensemaking is an ongoing act of constructing a reality to be interpreted. While numerous articles have explored the notion of sensemaking in organizations, far fewer have examined it through the empirical prism of an individual case of sensemaking, with the notable exception of Weick’s seminal contribution and formulation, “The Collapse of Sensemaking in Organizations: The Mann Gulch Disaster” (1993). In this article, we seek to build on the literature of sensemaking in organizations by offering an analysis of the actions of former Republican Senator Jeff Flake, whose leadership interventions we interpret as efforts at sensemaking in the era of Trump. In this context, we focus on the US Senate as an organ of sensemaking established by the framers of the Constitution to be relied upon in times of disruption, confusion, and chaos—a check on presidential power established by the framers of the US Constitution to provide prospective sensemaking for uncharted waters. In analyzing the case of Jeff Flake as sense-maker, we rely on certain definitions of leadership embedded in the era of post-truth. We conclude that Flake’s actions may be seen as a distant mirror (to quote Tuchman, 1978) of Weick’s treatment of the storied smokejumper Wag Dodge—a sense-maker whose persuasive powers failed him in the moment, only to be viewed in retrospect as the one who paved the way forward toward survival in the midst of a “cosmological episode.”

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“A distant mirror”: Sensemaking in the era of Trump

2020

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“…A person is a continuous and transformative process of points of view on specific situations or problems to which it seeks to enact meaningful responses (Schmitt and Labour, 2022). The implicit or explicit intention of sense-making may be to construct order over apparent chaos (Ybema and Willems, 2015). Such a process mobilizes intertwined corporeal, emotional and cognitive dimensions (Di Paolo et al, 2018).…”

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Introducing the SMILE_PH method: Sense-making interviews looking at elements of philosophical health

Miranda

2023

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The present article is a primary introduction to the semi-structured interviewing method SMILE_PH, an acronym for Sense-Making Interviews Looking at Elements of Philosophical Health. Beyond grounding this new methodology theoretically (a work that is started here but will in the future necessitate several developments), the main motivation here is pragmatic: to provide the recent philosophical health movement with a testable method and show that philosophically-oriented interviews are possible in a manner that can be reproduced, compared, tested and used systematically with a population that has received no training in philosophy. The SMILE_PH approach was conceived by the author during an ethically approved pilot study focused on the philosophy of life of persons living with spinal cord injury (SCI), with the intention of rectifying the epistemic obstacles generated by rationalist, Socratic or unstructured ways of in-depth interviewing. The six-step structure of the method is also inspired by hundreds of individual dialogue sessions with philosophical counselees, led by the author between 2018 and 2022: the SMILE_PH method progressively gathers phenomenological data about 1 – our bodily sense, 2 – our sense of self, 3 – our sense of belonging, 4 – our sense of the possible, 5 – our sense of purpose and 6 – our philosophical sense.

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“…46 The implicit or explicit intention of sense-making may be to construct order over apparent chaos. 47 Such a process mobilises intertwined corporeal, emotional and cognitive dimensions. 48 Sensemaking is thus a term commonly understood as the process through which people interpret and give meaning to their experiences.…”

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“…Persons are a continuous and transformative process of evaluations and points of view on specific situations or problems to which they seek to enact meaningful responses 46 . The implicit or explicit intention of sense‐making may be to construct order over apparent chaos 47 . Such a process mobilises intertwined corporeal, emotional and cognitive dimensions 48 .…”

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Philosophical health: Unveiling the patient's personal philosophy with a person‐centred method of dialogue

Miranda

Loughlin

2023

Evaluation Clinical Practice

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Grounded in ideas about sense‐making and whole‐person care with a long intellectual heritage, the movement for Philosophical Health—with its specific conceptions of philosophical care and counselling—is a relatively recent addition to the ongoing debate about understanding better the perspectives of patients to improve health practice. This article locates the development of this movement within the context of broader discussions of person‐centred care (PCC), arguing that the approach advocated by defenders of philosophical health can provide a straightforward method for implementing PCC in actual cases. This claim is explained and defended with reference to the SMILE_PH method created by Luis de Miranda (Sense‐Making Interviews Looking at Elements of Philosophical Health), an approach recently trialled convincingly with people living with traumatic spinal cord injury.

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Making Sense of Sense-Breaking

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“A distant mirror”: Sensemaking in the era of Trump

“A distant mirror”: Sensemaking in the era of Trump

Introducing the SMILE_PH method: Sense-making interviews looking at elements of philosophical health

Philosophical health: Unveiling the patient's personal philosophy with a person‐centred method of dialogue

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