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Listening and Dialogue
When
Mon 4-May 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Location
JoY: John Yencken [45], Ground Floor
Facilitated By
  • Dr. Wendy Russell Affiliate, College of Systems & Society
Skills Developed
Active ListeningDialogue Across DifferenceFacilitation
ModeWorkshop ThreadActive Citizenship

About this KNoT

Good dialogue is a skill, not a personality trait — come build it.

Preparation

Students are asked to think about a time or situation in their lives when they’ve had really good conversation. Connecting, engaging, inspiring conversation. If they can’t think of a time, imagine it. What was it like? What happened to make it so good? How did it make them feel?

What You’ll Learn

In this workshop, students will explore the skills of listening and dialogue, including suspending judgement, dialogue across difference, and making space for difficult conversations. This will provide some foundational skills that underpin transdisciplinary skills of interaction, pluralism, integration and change orientation. They will learn how to bring skills of listening and dialogue to building shared meaning and exploring emergent ideas.

Introductory activities will draw on appreciative experiences of good conversation and will guide them through listening exercises. They will then practice these skills in a circle dialogue on a topic chosen in the workshop. The workshop will close with reflection on the dialogue and an inspirational check-out considering what might be possible with deeper listening.

How to Complete This KNoT

Reflection:
  • How does the dialogue practice you learnt about differ from other communication contexts you experience, especially at uni? How could applying these approaches make a difference?
  • Reflecting on the principles, what strengths do you bring to dialogue? What might get in the way of dialogue for you? What skills or dispositions could you build to improve your dialogue, listening & communication? What difference might this make?

Submit your Completion Task here:

Submit your completion task for this KNoT via the Qualtrics survey (ANU Login required). You have 10 calendar days after the KNoT to submit it.

Writing your reflection

Most completion tasks ask you to reflect on what you did. For example prompts, sentence starters, and what a strong reflection covers, see Guidance on Reflective Practice. Your completed tasks come together at the end of the semester in the KNoT Completion Evidence.

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