Deep Listening with Jeanine

Deep listening with Jeanine

“People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.” (Alice Duer Miller)

Jeanine Baker, Woman Within Facilitator and Coach, shares her thoughts on how to listen deeply to another. She describes how to suspend our own world in order to enter into another’s. From this place, we can listen to another’s words, body language and the deeper feelings beneath it all. "Deep Listening represents a heightened state of awareness and connects to all that there is". (Pauline Oliveros)

Contributor

Jeanine Baker

Jeanine is an experienced Woman Within Facilitator and Coach. She is passionate about supporting women to grow into their true potential. She is particularly skilled in the process of deep listening, and helping women understand the powerful impact it can have on their life perspective. She is the Director of Programming for Woman Within International and is the Staffing Coordinator for the South Central region in the USA. She served as Past President for Woman Within South Central. Jeanine is a facilitator for Walking the Mourners Path and holds a Bachelor of Science in Psychology.

"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand." (Karl A. Menniger)