Listening Lunch Series: Listening Filters Part 2-Socio Cultural Filters
Each one of our lives is shaped by social and cultural identities and our unique experiences in the world. These experiences shape what we see, how we communicate, and unconsciously limit our ability to understand one another. We make assumptions and form unconscious biases about other people based on our own experience of the world. This leads to misunderstandings and unhealthy us/them dynamics. This online session will review a variety of socio-cultural barriers that interfere with our ability to listen, introduce tools for identifying your own biases, and share practices for cultivating curiosity about the experiences of others.
What We’ll Cover:
- Socio-Cultural Identity Factors
- Tools for Identifying and addressing our own unconscious biases
- Micro-practices for cultivating radical humility and curiosity
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About Our Rates
JUST Listening offers our services on a sliding scale as an intentional effort to distribute resources equitably between individuals & organizations, regardless of annual budget and income level. We aim to support and strengthen social benefit and strategic movement-building work. Paying at the higher end of the scale the Redistribution rate makes it possible for JUST Listening to work with those with limited income at little to no cost to them and supports volunteer programming for individuals experiencing deep poverty and/or incarceration.
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JUST Listening fosters personal, organizational, and social change and transformation through the practice of conscious, intentional, compassionate, non-egoic and non-judgmental communication skills.
JUST Listening is premised upon the beliefs that:
- Being heard empowers the speaker
- People hold the solutions to their own problems within
- Skilled listening is creative, opening up new possibilities for all involved, and
can be - a powerful tool for personal and social change.
- Although rarely consulted or listened to, people on the social margins are the best
- source of information and ideas about the issues facing them.
- Skilled listening is possible only when one is actively cultivating self-awareness
and - regular habits of reflection.