Listening and Civility

by | Aug 21, 2024 | Civility

Wendy Doyle at The Kansas Reflector: In my experience, I have learned how to be more effective through a very powerful, yet sometimes forgotten, conversational tool: Listening.   Listening isn’t passive, it is active. By intently listening, you open, not close,...

Listening

by | Feb 3, 2020 | Deliberation

Astra Taylor at The New Yorker: The idea that the right to listen to one another should be defended in a democracy seems strange. That’s probably because we lack a shared vocabulary or framework for understanding listening as a political act. We pay lip service to the...