

Time & Location
Postponed
Emerson College (UK), Forest Row RH18 5JX, UK
About the Event
The goal of this workshop is to connect people with the roles that listening and being heard play in their biography and to explore how they can use listening as an instrument of peace. The elements we will work with include sound experiences, biographical exercises, and dyads as a way of training a more artful listening.
In the first session we will look at early experiences with sound and music and how they form a foundation to people’s biographies.
In the second session our focus will be on the interpersonal dimension of listening. We will introduce the idea that there is often a disconnect between the youth and the older generation, where the youth are inspired by high ideas and ideals but lacking resources, and the older generation guards the resources they have built up over time. With a lack of artful listening skills, the older generation tends to…