Higher Education

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 [...]

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 [...]