The forum brought together players, coaches, and doctors in an effort to improve the collective understanding of issues around concussion.
But there is a new sense of purpose, a collective understanding of what we need to do to move forward.
At times like these, the nation rightly falls back on the record of aspiration and accomplishment that makes up our collective understanding of what we live for.
Part of the explanation for this new desire, if indeed it is new, is that our collective understanding of the role of social media has changed.
We want teachers to engage in research – to contribute to developing our collective understanding of how to maximise the richness and depth of our students' educational experience.
And so I have come to realise the value of folk music as our collective understanding of the value of subversion for and of itself".
These many, differing, points of view really added to our collective understanding of where we might go with this in the future.
Any serious attempt at improving our collective understanding of reality justifies a reasonable cost, assuming that cost does not directly violate anyone's human rights.
He concedes that a collective understanding of childhood should recognise children's capacities as well as their vulnerabilities, but argues that we also need to recognise that there is no such thing as "the child".
This not only meant that members across the country felt alienated, demoralised and ignored, but more importantly their collective understanding of people's fears and aspirations, learnt from listening to the public and knocking on doors, was being deliberately overlooked.
The habitual tendency to excise the most tragic elements of history creates a void in our collective understanding of what has happened in the past and, therefore, our understanding of the potential for tragedy in the present.
