Higher Education

Carin-Isabel Knoop Chairperson, Global Listening Centre. Executive Director Harvard Business School Case Research and Writing Group, Harvard University. Co-Founder of HSIO Michael P. H. Stanley, MD Director of Outreach and Engagement, Boston Society of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry. Senior Resident of the Mass General Brigham Neurology Program As children, we are often just told to [...]

David T. McMahan, Ph.D. Executive Chair, Global Listening Centre Professor of Communication at Missouri Western State University. US When accepting the honor of serving as Executive Chair of the Global Listening Centre, I noted the Centre’s dedication to transform lives through the impactful and healing power of listening. Initiatives promoting the importance of listening and [...]

Professor Peter A. Huff, Ph.D. Chair Spiritual Division, Global Listening Centre. Director of the Center for Benedictine Values, Professor of Religious Studies at Benedictine University in Chicago. US The world’s sacred library reveals to us the great diversity of tongues with which humanity’s spiritual experience has spoken and continues to speak. The imperative mood is [...]

Professor Michael W. Purdy, Ph.D. Past Vice Chair, Global Listening Centre. Distinguished Listening Scholar, Professor Emeritus, Governors State University. US Listening to music offers clues for listening to a person’s voice; both have some informative qualities that can help transform our listening. Arthur Schopenhauer, a 19th-Century German philosopher, said that listening to music was the [...]

Annie Rappeport, Ph.D., M.Ed. University of Maryland. USA Professor Andrew D. Wolvin, Ph.D. Honorable Director (Academic) Global Listening Centre. Professor Emeritus at University of Maryland, Adjunct Professor at the Georgetown University, Law Center. USA Abstract: While story telling is receiving considerable focus in communication research, story listening should have greater attention. Situated in a narrative [...]

Professor Claude-He le ne Mayer Ph.D. Professor in Industrial and Organizational Psychology at University of South Africa, Johannesburg. South Africa “God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer.” Mother Theresa The author’s voice I sit with bated breath as I listen to the radio, listening to the sound of [...]

Katherine van Wormer Professor Emerita of Social Work University of Northern Iowa Co-Author of The Maid Narratives Listening often poses challenges when we disagree with others who have opposing views and different experiences, but the more different we are or more we disagree, the more important our listening becomes. Over the last year, one such [...]

Professor Michael W. Purdy, Ph.D. Distinguished Listening Scholar, Past Vice Chair, Global Listening Centre. Professor Emeritus, Governors State University. USA This summer I found a fascinating article* that argued for a helpful approach to mental illness and the road to mental health. In general, we can use the listening practice described in this article as [...]

Donna L. Halper, Ph.D. Director (Media Ecology) Global Listening Centre. Associate Professor at Lesley University of Cambridge, Massachusetts. USA For many of us, our typical day is punctuated by frequent interactions with the internet and social media. We check our email, we read our newsfeed, we look at our phones to see if anyone has [...]

Associate Professor Gayle M. Pohl, Ph.D. Senior Vice President (Education Policy), Global Listening Centre. Associate Professor at University of Northern Iowa. USA Public relations is a field where communication practitioners seek to employ a strategic communication process to build mutually beneficial relationships between organizations and their public. A seminal theory central to the professional goals [...]