In this presentation, D. Graham Burnett — one of the leaders in a rising movement focused on ATTENTION ACTIVISM and practices of collective attentional emancipation — will introduce some of the work of those currently advancing this vision, which engages the humanities and the sciences, and reaches toward transformative politics. In an era that has seen new forms of exploitative financialization of our cognitive and sensory capacities (in the form of the so-called “attention economy”), new thinking about the social and existential dimensions of human attention is urgently needed. Teachers and therapists need to be in the vanguard as we confront, together, the dehumanizing dimensions of the business model that underlies so much of what is so promising in the technological transformations of our time.

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Life After Incarceration is a panel discussion highlighting issues related to re-entry for individuals leaving incarceration. Co-sponsored by the Center for Psychological Humanities and Ethics’ Justice and the Humanities Initiative and the Forum on Racial Justice in America.

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How might the process of creative non-fiction unlock facets of clinical experience that may have initially eluded us? Even as we hone skills of clinical sensitivity over years of practice – be it via forms of ‘even hovering attention’, the comments of supervisors, or forms of countertransference – a professional clinical stance invariably requires that we bracket multiple sources of information and engagement.

This course begins with a piece of clinical non-fiction drawn from the presenter’s time as a trainee in a prison context. In the sessions following, participants will be introduced to a rudimentary series of techniques of creative non-fiction and will then take up a series of writing exercises in which they return to one or more salient clinical experiences.

Continuing Education (CE) credits are pending for this event. Updated information will be provided once the registration page is available.