{"id":5775,"date":"2024-01-04T12:11:05","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T20:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/?p=5775"},"modified":"2024-03-25T16:09:44","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T23:09:44","slug":"holding-a-moment-of-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/2024\/01\/holding-a-moment-of-silence\/","title":{"rendered":"Holding a Moment of Silence"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">As you prepare for your first day of class this winter quarter, we encourage you to acknowledge the collective grief of our community for the death of Jonathan Rodriguez. A moment of silence provides time for individuals to pause and recognize their own needs and emotions and to remember the person honored in the context of a respectful and supportive community. You may wish to share with students about the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2018-11-09\/edward-honey-origin-of-the-one-minutes-silence\/10461280\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">history<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and etiquette of the moment of silence practice, and you may wish to continue this practice throughout the quarter as a grounding exercise to allow students to check in with themselves and transition to the learning environment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">When holding a moment of silence, keep a few things in mind:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keep your introduction short \u2013 The moment of silence is to make space for your community. It is different from a eulogy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keep your language simple \u2013 Make the message accessible to everyone by using simple, direct language.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Be mindful of your community \u2013 Tailor your words to the people participating in your moment of silence and their relationship to the person being honored if you have this information.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Below is an example of the moment of silence held in the Community Care Forums for faculty and staff the week of January 1:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We invite you to join in a moment of silence in honor of Jonathan Rodriguez and to extend compassion to his family and friends, the students and police officer still recovering from injuries, other first responders who witnessed this tragedy first hand, and our Evergreen community and the extended communities of those directly affected.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As you prepare for your first day of class this winter quarter, we encourage you to acknowledge the collective grief&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9875,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_s2mail":"no"},"categories":[1,95,111],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9875"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5776,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5775\/revisions\/5776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.evergreen.edu\/ltc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}