Learning to LISTEN...really listen without personal agenda...is a wonderful quality. The mystic Persian poet, Rumi helps us recognize that even in silence there is much to hear if we are still.
There is a way between voice and presence
where information flows.
In disciplined silence it opens.
With wandering talk it closes.
I've experienced Rumi's idea here on this blog. I hear you hovering---sense when you show-up to take-in, always leaving a special energy that speaks of your presence. One person, when I asked, "Why do you show up?" wrote me and I listened and remembered. "I come here, because in you I share my day." This listening inspired several years of writing for both Maureen and me.
Recently, I learned a whole new perspective on the art of LISTENING. A new friend in the distance from Mexico, shared a wonderful video with me. I wanted to share it with you...
Evelyn Glennie lost nearly all of her hearing by age 12. Rather than isolating her, it has given her a unique connection to music. In turn, she teaches others to listen differently---giving us all a new vantage point from which to LISTEN to one another---escaping our limiting beliefs about who we are and what we can contribute.
What Evelyn also demonstrates is a resolute passion in her work---a confidence about her presence that is one we all could benefit from seeing and experiencing as she brings to her insightful, inspiring message. (TED Talk: Ideas worth spreading)
What lessons are you taking away about LISTENING?
Warm regards to all,
Debbe
Debbe Kennedy
Founder, Global Dialogue Center
www.globaldialoguecenter.com
Home of Women in the Lead
Twitter: @debbekennedy
Author...
Putting Our Differences to Work
The Fastest Way to Innovation, Leadership and High Performance
by Debbe Kennedy ▪ Berrett-Koehler ▪ 2008 – Hardcover
Foreword by Joel A. Barker, futurist, filmmaker and author
YouTube Book Review by futurist Joel A. Barker
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