tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516826968322440651.post1475172537959161098..comments2020-08-17T04:59:19.786+01:00Comments on Life at Work: Q29: What can great art teach us about listening?Elizabeth English (Locana) – From Life at Workhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08514632336450423931noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516826968322440651.post-59388640636267257172014-05-04T19:13:43.642+01:002014-05-04T19:13:43.642+01:00This is a lovely piece that you have both written....This is a lovely piece that you have both written. In the last training course that I ran (over two years), we looked at paintings and photographs, visited sculptures, listened to music, and shared poetry and stories. I feel that this is a natural approach to listening; and it sits better with me than a didactic or descriptive approach. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10534056963283220481noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516826968322440651.post-88391306397529582362014-05-01T12:21:16.837+01:002014-05-01T12:21:16.837+01:00Thank you Elizabeth,
I realise I tend to be logic...Thank you Elizabeth,<br /><br />I realise I tend to be logical with my thinking and speaking while going all dreamy and unfocused when looking at a work of art. <br /><br />With the help of your observations I believe (experience will tell me!) I can have a warmer, richer and more expansive experience of listening and of looking by appreciating the hidden dimensions of both - such as the emotions behind the words and the specific techniques underlying the creation of a work of art.<br /><br />I was lucky enough to spend a long time in early April in Gaudi's extraordinary Familia Sagrada basilica in Barcelona. I believe architecture like this is the very embodiment of the full simultaneous expression of both the logical and the artistic.John Evansnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516826968322440651.post-12857919738266534722014-05-01T09:23:02.317+01:002014-05-01T09:23:02.317+01:00This post is in itself a wonderfully novel perspec...This post is in itself a wonderfully novel perspective on listening. As with all your blogs, I find it giving me a new resource for listening for the best in others. And I am also interested in the "magic and mystery" - I am always puzzling why these things matter to us so much.Sue Corbettnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516826968322440651.post-18549164137071417672014-05-01T08:29:57.745+01:002014-05-01T08:29:57.745+01:00Thank you! Yes, I also enjoy connecting with somet...Thank you! Yes, I also enjoy connecting with something way beyond the words, in silence, in nature, in the beauty of a picture. It seems to make me more spacious and expansive, more able to take in everything inside me, and inside other people. I'm sure there is something particularly magical about silence, and your comment stimulates me to wonder more about this… Thank you!Elizabeth English (Locana) – From Life at Workhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08514632336450423931noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7516826968322440651.post-11222109558760898552014-05-01T07:45:38.363+01:002014-05-01T07:45:38.363+01:00Really enjoyed your creative metaphor here - as a ...Really enjoyed your creative metaphor here - as a visual person, it helped me translate the skills that go with that to the realm of communication and listening. I find that connecting with silence in solitude helps me listen to others deeply.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com