In the interest of elucidating active aspects of listening processes (interpreting, evaluating – etc.), I, along with many academics, have neglected the aspect of silence. There were obvious reasons for dispelling the idea that listening meant being silent; this...
We all are faced once in a while with situations where it will be difficult for us to listen, and we really need to listen well in many of these situations even if it is hard for us and will take a great deal of effort to do it well. When there is any time available...
While preparing a presentation on Self-Talk for the 2022 Idaho Conference on Refugees this following December 2017 post came to mind, written sometime during the Advent season nearly four years ago. When I conducted the Self-talk workshops at the University it was my...
I wonder about the capacity for openness and intimacy when listening. Though I’ve defined listening as the desire to be intimately present to the meaning of another, I readily admit this seems a rare occurrence. A significant factor is the impediment of will, i.e.,...
A few of you may have read a bit of this content posted elsewhere sometime ago (on FB 2013) while I was still teaching at Boise State (my last semester was fall of 2015). In spite of my retirement status, now that it’s fall 2017 I can’t suppress the feeling – that I’d...
“The greatest secrets of our being are hidden from us, however: they lie in the secrecy of our depths.” Gaston Bachelard in Earth and Reveries of Repose: An Essay on Images of Interiority In recent months my focus has been to better understand how imagination assists...
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