Listening – Weekly Culture of Values Focus

Culture of Values Focus for this week – Sept 8 to 14, ’24 – Dialogue. Read more @ https://atomic-temporary-16610124.wpcomstaging.com/…/dialogue-weekly-culture…/ #communication #cultureofvalues #universalvalueeducation #feelingsandneedslanguageineducation

Sept 8th to 14th ’24

Definition of Listening:

Listening is an action of hearing the sounds in the surroundings. This includes other people’s voices. Hearing what others are saying is a way to get to know what is important to them and to learn from them.

Remember Dialogues definition from last week:

Dialogue is a conversation with others that increases understanding, addresses problems, and questions thoughts and actions.

Dialogue and Listening are needed to have a balanced conversation of meaning. This balance brings success and achievement for all in relationships equally. When someone speaks they are leading the conversations and the listener is following. To have equality the speaker becomes the listener. This means the listener becomes the speaker. Leadership is a balance of giving and receiving in dialogue.

This pattern was developed from a talking circle. The format was to go around and ask each participant what the focused value word meant to them. Sometimes a definition from the dictionary was read out first. People often did not know the definition meaning. ‘Renee Lindstrom’