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Alan R. Ehrlich Past President and Chair (Listening Disorders), Global Listening Centre. The Global Listening Centre’s Thank You for Listening Campaign 2026 highlights listening’s transformative power. It reminds us that meaningful change often begins not with speaking louder but with listening more deeply. The GLC’s Thank You for Listening campaign was a great success. It [...]

Gayle M. Pohl, Ph.D., APR Vice Chair, Global Listening Centre. Associate Professor of Communication Studies, University of Northern Iowa, USA. Introduction: A Campaign Built on Gratitude The simplest words can sometimes carry the greatest meaning. “Thank you for listening” may appear to be an ordinary expression of appreciation, yet behind those words lies one of [...]

Katherine van Wormer, Ph.D. Professor Emerita of Social Work, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA. Co-author of The Maid Narratives. Named as one of the Top 25 Outstanding Women Listeners in the World (2023) Thank you for listening is a positive expression of gratitude promoted by the Global Listening Centre that parallels the [...]

Teri L. Varner, Ph.D. Professor of Communication St. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas, USA. Listening is often regarded as one of the most basic dimensions of communication, yet it remains among the least examined in everyday practice. In professional, civic, and interpersonal life, people routinely speak about the importance of being heard, but far less attention [...]

Alexander V. Laskin, Ph.D. Professor, Department of Advertising and Public Relations, Quinnipiac University, Connecticut, US. Laskin's (2025) analysis highlights the diminishing necessity of human labor and intellectual exertion. He proposes that this directs human identity toward consumption as the ultimate form of self-actualization—the transition from cogito ergo sum to I consume, therefore I am. This is the foundational [...]

Federica Santini, Ph.D. Director (Academic Division), Global Listening Centre. Professor and Chair of the Department of World Languages and Cultures (WLC), Kennesaw State University, US. As an administrative faculty member at a large public university in the United States, each year I review hundreds of student evaluations that contribute to the assessment of faculty in [...]

Konrad Michel, MD Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of Bern, Switzerland. In my training as an M.D., I learnt that doctors ask questions about signs and symptoms, make a diagnosis and a prognostic assessment. When faced with patients referred after a suicide attempt, I realized that this approach did not help me to understand the [...]

Linda Eneix President and CEO, OTS Foundation for Neolithic Studies. In an age of infinite playlists and algorithmic calm, the modern soundscape is overflowing with noise, and it does not allow us any sense of peace. "Meditation music" has become a commodity - synthetic, looped, and stripped of context. It may relax the nervous system, [...]

Michael Purdy, Ph.D. Listening Legend, Distinguished Listening Scholar, Past Vice Chair, Global Listening Centre. Professor Emeritus, Governors State University, US. There is one aspect of listening that needs to be explored. This aspect of listening recognizes that there is nuance to the listening roles we enact and we must be aware of how we listen [...]

Steven G. Kellman, Ph.D. Director (Academia), Global Listening Centre. Professor, University of Texas, San Antonio, US. Ernest Hemingway's celebrated short story "Hills Like White Elephants" consists almost entirely of dialogue. A man and a woman waiting for a train in Spain reveal truths about themselves and their relationship through a bare minimum of verbiage. Although [...]