Live Stage: Conference on Listening
The American Society for Cybernetics has great pleasure in announcing a conversational conference on the theme of LISTENING :: August 9 to August 15, 2011 :: Richmond, Indiana. USA :: Sign up deadline: May 10, 2011 ::
We regard listening as the key act that turns talking into conversation. However, we use these words metaphorically, and not just literally: we do not mean to concentrate on the aural senses, but on the idea that it is the recipient who gives meaning to what they hear. This is how they release the potential in a statement made by another into conversation, whether the conversation is in words, acts, gestures, or indeed any other medium of communication. This can lead to the development of understanding of the other so important in human relations (perhaps specially in fields such as psycho-therapy, management, education and music). Continue reading