Learning to defend ourselves from the mechanisms that prevent us from making sense. Mechanisms that force us to remain in a discomfort because of a lack of understanding. That even make us doubt our own experience.

You may sometimes have trouble grasping some concepts, understanding the other person's point of view or behavior, or whatever it is that is causing you discomfort or tension. When you are able to make sense of a phenomenon that may have seemed nebulous or that you could not connect all the pieces, you are doing hermeneutics. Hermeneutical violence is when we make interpretation difficult for the other, deliberately or not. This talk aims to raise awareness about the process and to avoid or arm oneself against this type of violence.