This proposal is outside the traditional settings of the ILA. I am proposing a combination of entertainment and a discussion of listening skills. It's a method to improve listening via the arts. A 5-character one-act play entitled "All in Good Time" will be performed. The performers will be ILA member volunteers in attendance. It will be done in the style of a script-in-hand readers theater event. Each attendee will be assigned a character to monitor during the performance and will keep in mind these two questions:
What listening habits/practices should your character continue in order to be a highly effective listener?
How can your character improve his or her listening practice in order to grow into the most effective listener possible?
The play runs about 35 minutes with perhaps another 5 minutes with someone reading the stage directions. This could be combined with a discussion of any length.
900 Days, 93,000 miles, hundreds of stories, one goal…in a divided world, to rediscover what connects us. In the fall of 2020, award-winning photographer John Noltner and his wife Karen sold their home in Minneapolis and hit the road to live small, listen deeply and learn about who we are as a country.
In this session, the author and photographer will share the methodology and process behind this 2-1/2 year journey to gather stories of hope, healing and transformation from across a divided country. He will share insights around the logistics of identifying and reaching out to potential subjects, the challenges of establishing trust in different communities and settings, and the importance of establishing and honoring expectations when working with subjects. In short, this will be a brief practicum on planning and executing an ambitious qualitative research project centered around listening. Many stories and images will be shared to illustrate challenges and methodologies, and there will be ample time for questions.
This presentation will review current creative methods to help teach listening skills to inter-professional clinicians and volunteers. It will also provide a summary of the presenter’s current book and short documentary film projects focused on deepening listening awareness and practice by exploring resources in music, art, theatre for non-actors, nature, and “listening installations” to help treat social problems of loneliness and trauma.
I am a psychotherapist, author and film producer promoting social support through the healing power of listening. My current film project is "I Hear You!" - a short documentary set in Hamburg, Germany that highlights the improvisatory nature of listening at a drop-in listening kiosk... Read More →
