Hello and Happy New Year! If you got this post via email, thank you for subscribing to the “Listening Arts” blog. I recently wrote on LinkedIn about my gratitudes for 2025, yet wasn’t able to squeeze in all the folks I wanted to mention. Then, while writing this expanded version, I realized there are some […]
Tag Archives: Listening and Social Change
on Oxana Timofeeva’s“Energy and Extraction: A Philosophical Approach” Kosmos Lecture given on January 30, 2025, at the Humboldt University in Berlin Not being familiar with Prof. Dr. Oxana Timofeeva’s work, I was not sure what to expect in attending this presentation. Yet I ended up being so deeply moved, in an unexpected and very surprising […]
I was recently blown away by a deeply powerful post on Linked In. Strategic leadership coach David Hutchens quotes Chilean bioethicist Humberto Maturana, who wrote: “Love is the only emotion that can increase the intelligence of the system.” Then David follows up on this by asking us, “Does that stop you in your tracks like […]
Recently, I had the wonderful opportunity to attend a Council on the Uncertain Human Future. It was an extremely rich and rewarding experience, contemplating the existential implications of climate change, in the context of deep community — and I am still planning to write a full-length post about it, soon. However, I got a bit […]
Next to conversations about Occupy Everywhere, some of the most alive conversations I’ve been having recently have been about Open Dialogue, an evidence-based, hugely effective approach for helping people heal from schizophrenia, developed by Jaako Seikkula and a community of practitioners in Finland. For those of us still learning about this, Ron Unger’s web post […]
I’ve been wanting to write for a while, on how I see the relationship between listening and social change. As much as I love dialogue… and as passionate as I am about mediation / facilitation (especially the transformative, non-linear, emergent varieties thereof…) I also think it’s key to acknowledge that, on its own, facilitation is […]