Christian Education : Contemplative Listening
1/23/2014
Christian Education : Contemplative Listening
- "A long, loving look at the real"(William McNamara)
- A full bodied, loving presence to the person before you, as well as to what is said and what as yet
remains unsaid.
- Seeks to honor the presence of the HS in the speaker and between the listener and speaker.
- Warm, loving, engaged, and prayerful silence
Bracketing
- Putting oneself aside to attend fully to the othre: self-forgetfulness
- Your own pearls of wisdom: "Let me tell you how I dealt with this same kind of thing-it worked really
well"
- Your own similar stories….
Contemplative responding: sounding box
- I heard you say….
- "It seems that you….
- "I noticed that you….
- "there seems to be a pattern…..
- "A long, loving look at the real"(William McNamara)
- A full bodied, loving presence to the person before you, as well as to what is said and what as yet
remains unsaid.
- Seeks to honor the presence of the HS in the speaker and between the listener and speaker.
- Warm, loving, engaged, and prayerful silence
Bracketing
- Putting oneself aside to attend fully to the othre: self-forgetfulness
- Your own pearls of wisdom: "Let me tell you how I dealt with this same kind of thing-it worked really
well"
- Your own similar stories….
Contemplative responding: sounding box
- I heard you say….
- "It seems that you….
- "I noticed that you….
- "there seems to be a pattern…..
