Higher Education

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 [...]

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 [...]