Are you a bad listener?
One of my favorite parts of the movie Pulp Fiction is where Uma Thurman’s character is asking a few get to know you questions to John Travolta’s character. For example:
When someone’s talking are you really listening or just waiting to talk next?
If you’d honestly answer, waiting to talk next and c’mon… Alot of us are.. Or how many times have you been in a situation where you’re mid conversation and realize you have completely dazed off and have no idea what the conversation is about.
If you’re interested in learning some Deep Listening skills, check out this workshop at the Shambala Meditation Center from January 16 - 18th.
Deep Listening
with Hope Martin & David Rome
January 16 / 7:30 PM 9:30pm, Saturday and Sunday January 17 and 18 / 9:30am - 5:00 PM
Price: $175.00 Regular Price - 30% discount for student and seniors
Too often our interactions feel superficial, repetitive, and unsatisfying. Our ways of Being with others seem to trap us in habitual patterns and prevent us from contacting deeper levels of experience and aliveness. Deep Listening cultivates the ability to be fully present with others by being more present to deeper aspects of ourselves.
For more information or to sign up, visit the Shambala website at http://www.atlanta.shambhala.org/
If you are into the idea of this workshop, you might like the blog Find Religion. Check out this entry about Attitude determines Attitude.
November 6th, 2009 at 11:21 am
Yes I’m a bad listener! I would attend the seminar, but my listening skills are so bad I wouldn’t hear anything they had to say about improving them lol