Proceedings of the International Management Conference
Year: 2024
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Legislative Violence: Sonic Therapeutic Intervention Approach
Vasudev Das
ABSTRACT:
“Applied management and decision scientists have not researched sonic therapeutic intervention (STI) as a strategy for preventing legislative violence although studies on violence in Congress abound in the management literature. Congressional altercations are assuming unprecedented dimensions; hence, cost-effective and non-partisan preventive strategies are crucial. When lawmakers lawlessly resort to violence with impunity, the reputation of the legislators calls for positive social change. Legislators are often considered the beacon of law and order, not only law-making. This hermeneutic phenomenological study aimed to diagnostically explore the first-hand accounts of eight sonic therapeutic intervention practitioners regarding how STI prevents legislative violence, utilizing Prabhupada’s sonic therapeutic intervention and Goleman’s emotional intelligence frameworks. The investigative inquirer employed the services of snowballing samples, semi-structured interviews, and documentary review to generate data. Data analysis of transcription interviews revealed that sonic therapeutic intervention enabled demonstrable self-control, enhanced willpower, consequentiality consciousness, high sobriety, and self-regulation which are facilitators of legislative non-violence. Leading with values-based legislative intelligence, legislative non-violence leadership, self-regulatory leadership, preventing public ridicule and shame associated with legislative altercations, and people-centered lawmaking, are among the research implications for positive social change. The study filled the lacuna in leadership and organizational change literature.
keywords: consequentiality consciousness, demonstrable self-control, high sobriety, legislative non-violence leadership, people-centered lawmaking