The Wisdom of Listening,9780861713554

The Wisdom of Listening

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ISBN13: 9780861713554
ISBN10: 0861713559
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2003-06-15
Publisher(s): Wisdom Publications
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Summary

The author trains readers in the art of deep listening, leaning on the wisdomf Ram Dass and A. H. Brady to train readers how to open their ears andearts in order to be rsponsive and fully present as they move through theirives, relationships, and jobs. Original.

Author Biography

Mark Brady, PhD, has taught graduate courses in deep listening for more than a dozen years. He is a senior faculty mentor at the graduate Institute of Transpersonal Psychology, where he collaborated in the creation of a computer-mediated Global Distance Learning Program. He was a co-developer the Children's Grief Program at Kara, a center for grief counseling in Palo Alto, California, where he also established the Electronic Hospice Project, an on-line support community for hospice workers worldwide. He has written three books, numerous articles for journals and national magazines, and has also won the Jack London Prize for fiction.

Table of Contents

Preface 1(6)
PART ONE: The Promise of Listening
CHAPTER 1: Listening with Presence, Awareness, and Love
Christine Longaker
7(18)
CHAPTER 2: Listening Through the Holes
A.H. Almaas
25(10)
CHAPTER 3: Feeding One Another
Anne and Charles Simpkinson
35(14)
CHAPTER 4: The Healing Power of Being Deeply Heard
Margaret Truxaw Hopkins
49(12)
CHAPTER 5: American Willing to Listen
Fran Peavey
61(22)
CHAPTER 6: On Therapeutic Attention
Kathleen Riordan Speeth
83(28)
PART TWO: The Practice of Listening
CHAPTER 7: The Listening Mind
Ram Dass and Paul Gorman
111(24)
CHAPTER 8: The Craft of Council
Joan Halifax
135(8)
CHAPTER 9: The Rules of the Listening Game
Michael P. Nichols
143(14)
CHAPTER 10: Listening Through the Body
Nancy Mangano Rowe
157(12)
CHAPTER 11: Strategic Questions Are Tools for Rebellion
Fran Peavey
169(22)
CHAPTER 12: The Gift of Attention
Kathleen Dowling Singh
191(22)
PART THREE: The Power of Listening
CHAPTER 13: Being a Good Listener
Karen Kissel Wegela
213(12)
CHAPTER 14: Liberating Ourselves Through Nonviolent Communication
Marshall Rosenberg
225(12)
CHAPTER 15: Finding a New Way to Listen
Toni Packer
237(6)
CHAPTER 16: Listening to the Land
Michael S. Hutton
243(18)
CHAPTER 17: Listening from the Heart
Rodney Smith
261(18)
CHAPTER 18: Fierce Listening
Cheri Huber
279(10)
CHAPTER 19: What I've Learned from Listening
Mark Brady
289(12)
Conclusion 301(2)
About the Contributors 303(4)
Acknowledgments 307

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