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Beyond Empathy as Projection
Listening, Otherness, and Relational Restraint In many traditions of listening, including communication studies, clinical psychology, counselling, leadership development, and organisational practice, empathy is treated as a core competence. To listen…
Silence is not a tool
I’ve already written two articles on silence: one on silence as an ethical act, and one on the shadow side of silence. Still, there is one point I want to…
Listening to and listening with
The distinction between listening to and listening with is, for me, much more than wording. It points to a difference in stance: from oriented understanding to shared presence. It is…
Being available without losing yourself
Gabriel Marcel, Martin Heidegger, and the ethics of presence We use the word available all the time. Yet with that one word we often mean a whole mix of things:…
Silence: Not an absence, but a way of showing up
We often treat silence as if it’s nothing more than the empty space between words, a pause, an awkward gap, something to be filled as quickly as we can.But in…
A moral choice
There is a moment, just before a conversation starts,when we decide whether we are truly available to the Other.That moment, barely visible, shapes everything that follows. Listening is not the…