Deep Listening Quotes

“Live, share and learn the art of true deep listening.
The main keys are honesty and humility.
Cultivate good filters in the mind.
Conquer and tame the ego.
If words and actions pass from your lips, sights and tapping words in the keyboard, don't forget to ask first,
"Is it true, necessary and kind?”
― Angelica Hopes

“The practice of deep listening is the practice of open inquiry, without assumption or judgement.”
― Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How artists activists and awakeners navigate change

“Each time we offer a reflection, we are also quietly repairing/disconfirming attachment wounds that always contain elements of our parents or others not being able to see us because of their own injuries.”
― Bonnie Badenoch, The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships

“This was the unexpected ... unforeseeable resolution of the paradox ... her personal goodness was no longer the issue because it had been replaced by the sweetness of relationship.”
― Bonnie Badenoch, The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships

“If I bother to listen, I can navigate by failure just as much as I can navigate by success.”
― Sharon Weil, ChangeAbility: How artists activists and awakeners navigate change

“Let your body call you back into yourself, into your most deeply embodied self. Land, dive, soar. Find the crumbs that lead back home.”
― Cheryl Pallant, Contact Improvisation: An Introduction to a Vitalizing Dance Form

“the implicit is awakening in search of healing rather than trying to harm us”
― Bonnie Badenoch, The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships

“Through resonance and internalization of us as companions, our way of holding them may gradually become the way they are able to hold themselves.”
― Bonnie Badenoch, The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships

“Relational neuroscience increasingly assures us that we are continually shaping one another's embodied brains, and that the safety provided by deep listening offerings a unique support for engagement. However it is one thing to believe it cognitively and quite another to grow into the practice of this belief.”
― Bonnie Badenoch, The Heart of Trauma: Healing the Embodied Brain in the Context of Relationships