Jun
09
Centering Risk Communication on Active Listening
“Pockets of U.S. Still Resisting Urgent Mantra to Stay at Home” read a front page headline in The Washington Post on April 3. Indeed, a major challenge of managing the horrific health and economic consequences of the Coronavirus epidemic has been to convince people throughout the world to take seriously the need to social distance. [...]
DETAIL
Jun
09
Listening in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Ignoring What We Listen to May Not Be Our Fault
Abstract Some scholars in the field of Communication have tended to largely focus on the production of utterances and the effective creation of informative and persuasive speeches, interpersonal, intercultural, business, and other types of communication, sometimes controlled by the sender of a message. Subsequently, these areas are often taught to the exclusion of listening as [...]
DETAIL
Jun
09
The Spirituality of Listening
What is the relationship of spirituality to listening? How does this relationship fit into our understanding of communication? Why is it important? For over twenty-two years, the premise of my work has been that listening is a sacred art and a spiritual practice. Even though historically these terms have most frequently been ascribed to religion, [...]
DETAIL
Jun
09
Ethical Listening…Do You Hear What I Hear?
In my current (nearly two decades now!) role as a Communication professor, I emphasize to my students—especially those enrolled in my Public Relations courses—the critical importance of listening to those who have an interest in your organization’s activities and ensuring that their concerns are addressed appropriately. British philosopher George Edward Moore said it so clearly [...]
DETAIL
Reflecting on Listening, Interviews with Global Listeners
Series 1 Series 2 Series 3 Series 4 Series 5 Series 6 Series 7 Series 8 Series 9 Series 10 Interview of Professor Patricia M. Davidson, Ph.D., MEd, RN, FAAN Rated one among the Top 25 Outstanding Women Listener in the World 2021, Global Listening Centre. Vice-Chancellor and President at University of Wollongong, Australia. Interviewer [...]
DETAIL
0
Dec
04
Peaceful Silence: Noise, Aggression, and Constructive Listening
Throughout history, people have associated peace with construction and war with destruction. Related to this dichotomy is the issue of noise: “peace and quiet” is a common English collocation, while everyone knows that battles are clangorous. In fact, the disruption of peace and quiet can provoke battle, as shown in police records of what are [...]
DETAIL
Global Campaign on Environmental Listening
To raise our environmental awareness the Global Listening Centre has initiated a campaign for Listening to the Environment (lasting three months, ‘til Dec 2020). Join us as we record our environment in articles, song, poetry and more. Help our mission by conducting workshops and other awareness enhancing activities. All active participants—members and non-members—will be recognized. [...]
DETAIL
Sep
16
I hear you : Comments on the Sound Practice of Listening
Typically, hearing is contrasted to listening, and such comparisons almost always favor listening. This dichotomy substitutes for the more complex understanding that there is no single type of listening, but rather, to employ a technique derived from general semantics, we can say that there are multiple varieties of listenings.
Definition of Listening
The Global Listening Centre views Listening as a global, multimodal process that underlies effective interpersonal and intercultural relations. Listening is part attitude, marked by genuine respect and regard for all; part skill, enabled by specific verbal and nonverbal behaviors; and part physical, driven by a host of physiological, sensory-motor, cognitive, and affective functions. Combined, these [...]
DETAIL
Listening to The Earth : what the artists and scientists tell us
This is a time of cataclysmic climate change, with raging fires across the western US landscape, the threat of life-threatening floods to coastal regions worldwide, and numerous other effects. A basic premise of this paper is that in searching for remedy, we must listen to the Earth, and through listening, discover what it is that ails the planet, and seek restorative action.