BS: improving our dialogue - good for everyo

Subject: RE: BS: improving our dialogue - good for everyo
From: Mrrzy
Date: 27 Feb 19 - 08:58 PM

Good one

Subject: RE: BS: improving our dialogue - good for everyo
From: keberoxu
Date: 27 Feb 19 - 02:15 PM

Don't know where I learned/stole this,
but the quick and dirty mnemonic device I use is

listen 2

don't just listen 4

Subject: RE: BS: improving our dialogue - good for everyo
From: Mrrzy
Date: 27 Feb 19 - 09:43 AM

People may have a need to be heard, but some of us have a need not to hear their racist and misogynistic crap.
Bigots have the right to speech. They do not have the right to be listened to.

Subject: RE: BS: improving our dialogue - good for everyo
From: Donuel
Date: 26 Feb 19 - 05:44 PM

Remarkable and honest. In fact you should contact Joe to make this a permanent link here so people can learn to communicate better. This may lead to fewer thread closures or needless conflict.

People do have a need to be heard. The observation that some people are in constant transmit mode but suffer from poor listening is profound and strikes close to home.

We love like minded opinions but are too likely to listen only to pick up arrows and fling them back in argumentative warfare.

Compared to the old days when there was a troll epidemic Mudcat has become a more civil place. A place we can learn the disinct differences in the gifts different people have and other gifts we share alike.

Subject: BS: improving our dialogue - good for everyo
From: FreddyHeadey
Date: 26 Feb 19 - 03:05 PM

I think I could drop this link into several threads ...

Michael Rosen talks to Eddy Canfor-Dumas and Peter Osborn about how improving our dialogue is good for everything, from helping excluded children to resolving conflict. 

Word of Mouth - Listen and learn
: how to make better conversation
- @bbcradio4
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0002m3t