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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…
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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…
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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…
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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:…
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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…
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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…
