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The Song Of Life: Listening To Self, Others, Nature, And God (The Divine), E. James Baesler
The Song Of Life: Listening To Self, Others, Nature, And God (The Divine), E. James Baesler
Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Publications
“Listening to the SONG of Life” is a pedagogical framework that conceptualizes listening as a multi-sensory experience in four contexts: Self, Others, Nature, and God/Goddess (the Divine). L-SONG (Listening-SONG) is an instrument developed to measure student learning in four contexts during a listening course.
From Talking Stick To Listening Stick: A Variation On An Ancient Practice, E. James Baesler
From Talking Stick To Listening Stick: A Variation On An Ancient Practice, E. James Baesler
Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Publications
Goals:
The primary goal is to introduce students to the concept, experience, and application of the listening stick activity within the context of an undergraduate listening course. Students participate in a group listening stick activity that cultivates experiences of first person attention, focus, and awareness of self and others’ feelings and needs for the purpose of self-discovery and building small group cohesiveness. As a secondary goal, students learn how to apply the listening stick activity to interpersonal and small group situations in school, work, social, and spiritual settings for a variety of purposes including relationship building, problem-solving and decision-making.
Listening To The Divine Song Within The Greater Song Of Life, E. James Baesler
Listening To The Divine Song Within The Greater Song Of Life, E. James Baesler
Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Publications
[First section]
Why I Teach Listening to the Divine Song
This autoethnography narrates how I came to teach listening to the divine song as part of an undergraduate listening course called Listening to the SONG of Life.1 Before I describe two personal stories that explain why I teach listening to the divine, a brief introduction to my interpretation of the autoethnographic method is in order.
Autoethnography, as used in this story, is grounded in the assumptions that language is a primary medium by which we are conscious, understand the world, and communicate our learnings to others in stories,2 …
Meditation In The Classroom: Cultivating Attention And Insight, E. James Baesler
Meditation In The Classroom: Cultivating Attention And Insight, E. James Baesler
Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Publications
Goals: Care must be taken by the instructor not to overemphasize achieving the goal(s) of meditation. Often, when there is too much emphasis on trying to reach the goal, the benefits of meditating can be hindered. On the other hand, when the goal of meditation is held loosely, then the goal is more easily approached. For this class meditation activity, the instructor might loosely hold several interrelated goals for their students: cultivate experiences of first person attention, concentration, and awareness while simultaneously developing capacities for insight, imagination, exploration, and discernment of ideas related to class content and applications to everyday …
Adding Glamour To Theory: Experiencing Theory In The Basic Course In Interpersonal Communication, Thomas Joseph Socha
Adding Glamour To Theory: Experiencing Theory In The Basic Course In Interpersonal Communication, Thomas Joseph Socha
Communication & Theatre Arts Faculty Publications
Focusing on the use of popular magazines in interpersonal communication instruction, this paper argues that such magazines can provide a rich source for application and criticism of interpersonal communication processes in everyday life. The first section of the paper reviews research and criticism dealing with the content of magazine articles that offer advice on interpersonal relationships and related topics, noting that such research and criticism are rare in the field. The second section provides a framework for integrating popular literature into the interpersonal course by discussing three methods of integration: critique application, discussion application, and role-play application. The third section …