JUST Listening Training – Part One: Listening with Ourselves

Though we wake up each morning, we often sleepwalk through our days, unaware of the world around us, each other, and importantly, of the many influences that impact how we interact and communicate with others. Much of our failure to understand what another person is communicating stems from our lack of awareness of several key factors that affect how we perceive and interpret what is said. It is distressingly easy to miscommunicate with another human: our spoken words pass through a treacherous labyrinth of challenges and filters before they land in the listener’s consciousness.