ILA 2024: International Listening Assn. 45th Annual Convention: Full Schedule

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9:00am CDT

"What Do You Mean, Listen?" Using Listening Circles as a Path to Better Listening Skills

This study implemented a training exercise using listening circle as a learning method, aiming at helping inexperienced listeners (university students) enter the dimensions of listening and raise their listening awareness. Theoretical framework of this study draws upon previous research that show listening circle is suitable as a learning strategy (Bommelje, 2012; Itzchakov & Kluger, 2017), and theories of active (Bodie et al., 2015; Floyd, 2014) and attentive listening (Wolvin & Coakley, 1996).

Results revealed very low initial listening awareness, and that each training exercise using listening circle, led to rise in listening awareness regarding being silent while listening, listen with an open mind, be in the moment, not plan what to say, and to handle the silence itself.

Listening circle training contributes to raising listening awareness in inexperienced listeners and to building their understanding of what listening is all about.

Speakers

Dr. Helen Meldrum

Ingrid Nordli

Thursday June 13, 2024 9:00am - 10:15am CDT
AiRE Ballroom 2

Paper Session

9:00am CDT

Learning to Listen

Listening to Learn is an introduction to listening through the lens of reentry programs. It summarizes the findings of a study done on women returning home from long-term incarceration (10+ years). It discusses the challenges they faced as returnees and how listening supported their reentry journey.

Moderators

Dr. Helen Meldrum

Speakers

Francine White

Thursday June 13, 2024 9:00am - 10:15am CDT
AiRE Ballroom 2

Paper Session

9:00am CDT

The Role of Listening in Student Empowerment

The authors explore the question “How does improving listening skills contribute to student empowerment?”. Authors argue the key to empowering students is investing in improved listening and communication skills. The focus group conducted in the study demonstrates an urgent need for effective listening, the importance of intrapersonal listening, and the positive impact active listening skills have on all facets of students' lives. To successfully “sustain best listening practices” we must turn the tide as we create a listening revolution.

Speakers

Dr. Helen Meldrum

Pooja Manjakandy

Lisa Athearn

Thursday June 13, 2024 9:00am - 10:15am CDT
AiRE Ballroom 2

Paper Session

1:30pm CDT

Listening: Imagination and Aesthetics

Listening: Imagination and Aesthetics. Jerry Catt and Michael Purdy are rethinking the field of listening in their presentations on Aesthetics and Imagination. Both are aspects of receptivity, the art and practice of listening in broad and depthful ways. Purdy will focus on the history of Aesthetics to show where listening is given a higher purpose. Catt will look to the role of imagination in the listening process.

Speakers

Michael Purdy

Jerry Catt

Thursday June 13, 2024 1:30pm - 2:40pm CDT
AiRE Ballroom 2

Panel

3:00pm CDT

Getting the Most from ILA's Online Presence

Speakers

Raquel Ark

Brenna McGinnis

Jennie Grau

Thursday June 13, 2024 3:00pm - 4:00pm CDT
AiRE Ballroom 2

Workshop

4:10pm CDT

Listening Leaders Building a Community of Listening Practice

“Outstanding leaders are outstanding listeners! This is the simple premise of listening Leaders: The Ten Golden Rules to Listen, Lead, and Succeed.”

During this listening presentation Manny Steil and Lori Joubert will guide you to engage with the Ten Golden Rules as a framework for developing listening leadership including the SIER model.

Together we will highlight key concepts from the book offering our own insights and then invite you to participate in developing your own understanding of listening leadership!

Our goal is to share the findings offered in the Listening Leaders foundational work and lead participants through purposeful engagement to learn more about your own listening leadership attitudes, skills, and knowledge.

Speakers

Lori Joubert

Manny Steil

Thursday June 13, 2024 4:10pm - 5:10pm CDT
AiRE Ballroom 2

Workshop

8:15am CDT

Presentation of the Marriage Mirror

An enjoyable, insightful presentation using video, PowerPoint, and handouts to show how the Marriage Mirror (a computerized, proven, self-help instrument with spiritual components) leads partners in the discovery of ways to improve their listening. They learn the appropriate context for responding and how best to respond to each other. The results are increased mutual understanding, growing trust, and a deeper satisfaction in their relationship. The Marriage Mirror process was used in my earlier instrument where over 90% of those who participated were observed (six months after their participation) by their colleagues to have statistically improved their listening.

Speakers

Arthur Robertson

Friday June 14, 2024 8:15am - 9:15am CDT
AiRE Ballroom 2

Workshop

9:30am CDT

Observations & Aggravations of Teaching Online: How Do We Increase Listening?

Speakers

Christopher D. Bond

Barbara Nixon

Adjunct Professor, Auburn University

Barbara B. Nixon, Ph.D. (ABD), is an Adjunct Professor of Public Relations at Auburn University and the author of the blog Public Relations Matters. Barbara retired from Core BTS in 2022 as their Director of Learning & Organizational Development. At Core, Barbara strategized, led and evaluated all things related to learning and OD, as well as leading their DE&I (diversity, equity and inclusion) initiatives.Previous to starting at Core BTS, she was the Manager of Le... Read More →

Friday June 14, 2024 9:30am - 10:30am CDT
AiRE Ballroom 2

Panel

9:30am CDT

Telepresence & Listening in the Online Classroom: Who & What Do Students Perceive?

Speakers

Christopher D. Bond

Friday June 14, 2024 9:30am - 10:30am CDT
AiRE Ballroom 2

Panel

11:45am CDT

Annual Business Meeting of the International Listening Assoc.

Friday June 14, 2024 11:45am - 1:00pm CDT
AiRE Ballroom 2

Business Meeting

8:15am CDT

Lessons on the Road to Peace: Presentation from the Artist & Advocate

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.

Speakers

John Noltner

Saturday June 15, 2024 8:15am - 9:15am CDT
AiRE Ballroom 2

Session

10:40am CDT

What the COVID Pandemic Taught Us About Health Risk Message Perception, Adherence & Listening

Speakers

Christopher D. Bond

Saturday June 15, 2024 10:40am - 10:45am CDT
AiRE Ballroom 2

Paper Session

10:40am CDT

Ethical Listening and the Model Code of Ethics for Educators

The session presents a study-in-progress focusing on the relationship between ethical listening as defined by Parks (2019) and the role of listening during instruction addressing the Model Code of Ethics for Educators (2015). During the 2024–2025 school year, I will apply a mixed methods research approach utilizing surveys and interviews of teacher candidates. Data generated from these methods will be analyzed through line-by-line coding, and emerging implications will address best ethical listening practices.

Speakers

Scott Robinson

Saturday June 15, 2024 10:40am - 11:45am CDT
AiRE Ballroom 2

Paper Session

10:40am CDT

Listening for Narrative Identity as a Theory of Practice

Considering the connection between narrative identity and listening offers rich opportunities to better understand people in deeper and more pluralistic ways. The practice of narrative listening can also help many in vocations of healing, teaching, serving, leading and more. So developing a set of practices on how to proactively listen for personal narratives would be helpful. This presentation reports what themes emerge from an analysis of scholarship on narrative and listening, and how such research can help us develop a theory of practice of listening for narratives in specific contexts.

Speakers

Michael Humphrey

Assistant Professor, Colorado State University

Like many journalists, I am most passionate about the power other people's stories and what it takes to listen to them. As a teacher and scholar, all those interests stayed as relevant as ever.

Saturday June 15, 2024 10:40am - 11:45am CDT
AiRE Ballroom 2

Paper Session

1:30pm CDT

Author Spotlight: Cori Doerrfeld and her book, "The Rabbit Listened" (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35248504-the-rabbit-listened)

Moderators

Marva Shand-McIntosh

Speakers

Cori Doerrfeld

Author

Cori Doerrfeld is a full time author/illustrator who has helped create numerous books with both local and national publishers. Her books include titles such as The Rabbit Listened, Good Dog, and The True Adventures of Esther the Wonder Pig. When Cori isn’t busy making books, she... Read More →

Saturday June 15, 2024 1:30pm - 2:40pm CDT
AiRE Ballroom 2

2:50pm CDT

Listening into Being: Spritual Resources for Reflective Practice and Social Activism

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.

Speakers

Robert Mundle

President, Robert Mundle Productions Inc.

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 →

Saturday June 15, 2024 2:50pm - 3:50pm CDT
AiRE Ballroom 2

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