Harmony-Wisdom and Soft-Listening

John H. Horsman, Debra K. Heiser (), Christine K. Hassing, Diana L. Steer, Lopez Sergio () and Adam L. Gierlach ()
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John H. Horsman: Gonzaga University
Debra K. Heiser: Lead Your Life with Debbie Heiser
Christine K. Hassing: ChristineHassing.com
Diana L. Steer: Occupational Therapist
Lopez Sergio: Loyola Marymount University
Adam L. Gierlach: Adam Gierlach Coaching

Chapter 31 in The Palgrave Handbook of Servant Leadership, 2023, pp 743-766 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Harmony and wisdom become more than abstract ideals when they are experienced and observed. Harmony and wisdom emerged as practical values from 5 years of observation facilitating 4-day graduate course immersions focused on developing pathfinding-foresight through presencing and learning to listen. The work assumes servant-leader development involves learning and modeling empathy, acting ethically, promoting community, listening-first, practicing pathfinding-foresight, and systems thinking. Experiential exercises affirm harmony and wisdom are value priorities accompanied by associated skills relevant for servant-leader development. Soft-listening is introduced as an awareness that emerges during silent gesture exercises and practicing generative listening and generative dialog. Soft-listening is an independence-interdependence ability to attend to and perceive I, I-You, I-We, and I-All relations. Soft-listening involves internal and external awareness of a flow of harmony experienced as aware healing. Attending to the flow of harmony reveals wisdom. Soft-listening stimulates creative learning and informs pathfinding-foresight providing insight, direction, and vision for enhanced personal and collective discernment and influential persuasion. Attending to soft-listening skills reveals harmony and wisdom as accessible guiding components foundational for holistic transformational change. The subject matter is presented to stimulate further research.

Keywords: Aware healing; Body-wisdom; Creative learning; Development: mindful; heartful; bodyful; beingful; Discernment; Generative dialog; Generative listening; Harmony; Holistic listening; Influential persuasion; Listening to listening; Listening to silence; Listening-speaking; Pathfinding-foresight; Presencing; Servant-leader; Silent gestures; Soft-listening; Stuck; True-move; U journey; Wisdom (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-01323-2_43

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