Higher Education

Lance Strate, Ph.D. President (Academia) Global Listening Centre. Professor of Communication and Media Studies Fordham University in New York City, US. President of the Institute of General Semantics and Author of eleven books. The discipline of general semantics is sometimes referred to as a form of applied epistemology, and as such is concerned with the [...]

Mark Brady, Ph.D. Past Honorable Member, Global Listening Centre. Neuroscience Educator. Over many decades I've personally explored or at least inquired into a wide variety of spiritual traditions on Planet Earth. I've looked at their philosophies, their traditions, their specific practices. Shakers moving in their traditional shake. I've shaken with the few remaining American Shakers, [...]

Raphael Cohen-Almagor, D.Phil. Director (Academic Division), Global Listening Centre. Professor & Founding Director of The Middle East Study Group at University of Hull, UK. President of The Association for Israel Studies (AIS). Visiting Professor Johns Hopkins University, US. “We are stronger when we listen, and smarter when we share”. - Rania Al-Abdullah Introduction As a [...]

Professor Alexander V. Laskin, Ph.D. Professor at Department of Advertising and Public Relations, Quinnipiac University, Connecticut, US. Not a Birthday Balloon In the current tense international landscape, the ability to accurately perceive and understand the perspectives of other nations has become paramount. An example of the perils of misperception can be found in the events [...]

Professor Katherine van Wormer, Ph.D. Director, Global Listening Centre. Professor Emerita of Social Work, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, US. Co-Author of The Maid Narratives. My aim in this article is, after some personal background, to discuss the relevance of listening skills to the situation of the Gaza-Israeli war. Sometimes an event comes [...]

Professor Donna L. Halper, Ph.D. Director (Media Ecology) Global Listening Centre. Media Historian, Professor, Author, Public Speaker 2023 Inductee, Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame. I have a friend who is firmly convinced that she could never vote for a Democrat. In fact, she believes that Democrats are the main source of problems in America today. [...]

Professor Michael W. Purdy, Ph.D. Distinguished Listening Scholar, Past Vice Chair, Global Listening Centre. Professor Emeritus, Governors State University, US. It might shock the average person to learn that “Between 1946 and 2021, there were more than 500 wars world-wide. Just a quarter of those conflicts ended through peaceful negotiation, and 40% never ended at [...]

Donna Halper, Ph.D. Director (Media Ecology) Global Listening Centre. Associate Professor (Communication and Media Studies) at Lesley University, Cambridge, MA, US. “One of the most important prayers in the Jewish religion is called the Sh'ma"-- it's a prayer about listening to God, who speaks to us in so many ways. In other words, spirituality begins [...]

Cher McGillivray, Ph.D. Director (Academic) Global Listening Centre. Assistant Professor at Bond University, Australia. Licensed Clinical Psychologist with the Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Agency. Within human experience there is a potentially overlooked dimension of suffering that transcends visible scars and goes to the fabric of our moral integrity. Moral injury emerges when the fibres of [...]

Anabel Sanchez BA, Lead Author, University of Texas Permian Basin, US. Maximillien Vis MA, Adjunct Instructor, University of Texas Permian Basin, US. Rebecca Day Babcock, Ph.D. Director (Writing Studies) Global Listening Centre. William and Ordelle Watts Professor, Department of Literature and Languages at University of Texas Permian Basin, US. Listening allows for a deeper and [...]