Listening

  • Radical listening

    Radical listening “Thinking Where Words are Still Missing”: Radical Listening as a Tool to Promote Creative Thinking and Interactional Self-Reliance Momo’s talent for listening … what Momo was better at than anyone else was listening. Anyone can listen, you may say — what’s so special about that? — but you’d be wrong. Very few people…

  • Listening Drawing, Talking about ‘A meaningful place’ 

    Listening Drawing, Talking about ‘A meaningful place‘ In short   For this workshop, I combined the exercise of Radical Listening with a drawing exercise. Couples tell each other about a meaningful place. Afterward, they visualize what they have heard from their peer. New meaningful places emerge from radically listening to each other.   ——— Inspired by…

  • Rythm of the heart 

    Rythm of the Heart In short   PIMDI students presentation from the Helsinki Intensive week in 2021 that describes encounters with elderly people in care homes. Description   Musician, dancer and visual artist trio invited the participants to listen, respond and move to the rhythm of their bodies. Students wanted to build a loose frame around…

  • Listening walk

       Listening walk In short   A prerequisite of any dialogue, hence also the imaginative dialogue, is the sensitivity of listening. This is an exercise where the participants share their choice of place and a poem in their own language. The participants make recordings of their exploration and reading of the poem. Each participant is conscious…