What is a Salon?
A salon is, traditionally, a gathering of people for the purpose of discussing ideas. The purpose of this website is to facilitate a discussion around the idea of listening. Below you will find several salons, each centered on an aspect of listening. To participate please click on a salon, click on the join button, and follow the prompt.
Salons
Self-talk Virtual Workshop
This Salon will host the Self Talk Virtual Workshop. Participants are encouraged to post Questions and Comment here prior to the workshop, or email your Questions or Comments to either of the workshop Facilitators srazaee@listen4achange.org and...
Listen Here!
Welcome to Listen4AChange! You are invited to share your understanding of listening and learn more about what listening really amounts to. Listening changes our worldviews and thus our worlds.
Listening and BS (Blame and Shame–Revisited 2022)
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...
A way to look at listening: an analogy to quality artful painting
I was reminded the other day of an experience in the Netherlands visiting the former home of Rembrandt. I was mesmerized by his sketches; minimal fluid lines that caught the essence of the object he was drawing. Such skill is awe...
Join The Conversation!
Self-talk Virtual Workshop
This Salon will host the Self Talk Virtual Workshop. Participants are encouraged to post Questions and Comment here prior to the workshop, or email your Questions or Comments to either of the workshop Facilitators srazaee@listen4achange.org and...
Listen Here!
Welcome to Listen4AChange! You are invited to share your understanding of listening and learn more about what listening really amounts to. Listening changes our worldviews and thus our worlds.
Listening and BS (Blame and Shame–Revisited 2022)
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...
A way to look at listening: an analogy to quality artful painting
I was reminded the other day of an experience in the Netherlands visiting the former home of Rembrandt. I was mesmerized by his sketches; minimal fluid lines that caught the essence of the object he was drawing. Such skill is awe...
41st Annual ILA Convention, Seattle, Washington, USA, March 25-28, 2020
Convention Theme: Embrace the World: Listen to Build Relationships Call for proposals/presenters and more details available here: Link to proposal details and submission form Register for the annual ILA Convention here: Review the general daily schedule and register...
Listening To A Complex of Selves – Insight from John O’Donohue’s Anam Cara
I’ve argued for years that listening begins with the self; I’m not retracting that, but what I’ve come more recently to understand is that the self is a complex of many different expressions that manifest in our self-talk despite one characteristic may be overbearing,...
Netherlands Listening Marathon
Dear friends, Next Monday in the Netherlands a listening marathon will start for a week at the broadcaster 'Human' on the radio. People will listen to stories from known and unknown Dutch people for a week. Who are they, how do they think, what do they feel? On...
40th Annual International Listening Association Convention
40th Annual International Listening Association Convention Vancouver, Canada March 21-23, 2019 "Listening to Conflict" To register for the 40thAnnual ILA Convention "Listening to Conflict" click the "register" button at the bottom left side of...
Perspectives for Studying Listening
Dr. Halley discusses three of the perspectives used by scholars to study listening. Please watch the video before commenting or asking questions. https://youtu.be/BnR-BJ24kR4
Listening, Silence, Conformity, and Authenticity
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...
Preparing to listen in difficult situations
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...
Being Listening and Transcending Will
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.,...
Listening Begins in Social Community
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...
Creative Listening and Being in the Moment: Toward Integrating Listening
“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...
Asleep and Listening — Rumi
Try listening to another in a way that Rumi describes below — see if indeed their meanings essences are unleashed — as Bachelard reminds us “An ear that is intent is trying to see.” “Day before yesterday, fire whispered to the fragrant smoke, Aloes wood loves me,...
Listening: “Looking at You as a Sudden Fish that Has Surfaced from the Deep”
“There is no country in the world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men than America.” (Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville) Jonathan Sacks, referencing Tocqueville, points out that Tocqueville was perplexed by the fact...