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Title
Dedication
Credits and Disclaimer
Reviews
Introduction
Author Foreword
1.0 Introduction to Listening to the SONG of Life
1.1 A Communication Perspective of Listening
1.2 Transitioning from Communication to a SONG of Life Perspective of Listening
1.3 The Role of the Senses and Intuition in Listening
1.4 Two Modes of "Knowing-Listening"
1.5 Concepts Related to Intuition
1.6 Defining Listening to the SONG of Life
1.7 Listening to the SONG of Life as Typology, Metaphor, and System
1.8 Chapter Summary
2.0 Introduction to Teaching Listening to the SONG of Life
2.1 Autoethnography as Method
2.2 Reviewing Listening Pedagogy
2.3 Before Teaching Listening to the SONG of Life: Two Decades of Planting Seeds
2.4 Teaching Listening to the SONG of Life: Content, Learning Goals, and Assessment
2.5 Narrating the SONG: Assumptions, Description, and Elaboration
2.6 Ending the Class SONG of Listening: Beginning the Life SONG of Listening
2.7 Chapter Summary
3.0 Introduction to Listening to Self
3.1 Listening to Self as Awake, Aware, Conscious
3.2 Defining Self in Listening to the SONG of Life
3.3 Journaling as Listening to Self
3.4 Listening Deeply to Self in the Classroom: Meditating to Cultivate Attention and Insight
3.5 Questions for Reflection and Practices to Consider for Listening to Self
3.6 Chapter Summary
4.0 Introduction to Listening to Others
4.1 Best Practices for Listening to Others: Classic and Contemporary
4.2 Scholarly Edited Books on Listening
4.3 TED Talks on Listening to Others
4.4 Listening with Empathy
4.5 Digital-Mediated Listening to Others
4.6 Listening Deeper: From Talking Stick to Listening Stick
4.7 The Listening Stick
4.8 Questions for Reflection and Listening Practices to Consider
4.9 Chapter Summary
5.0 Introduction to Listening to Nature
5.1 Defining Nature and the Human-Nature Context
5.2 Research on Listening to Nature
5.3 Listening to Nature: Expanding Our Capacities
5.4 Perspectives on Listening to Nature
5.5 Listening to Plants
5.6 Listening to Animals: Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness of Non-Human Animals
5.7 Listening to Elementals
5.8 Listening to the Earth
5.9 All the Elements in the Desert
5.10 Questions for Reflection and Practices to Consider
5.11 Chapter Summary
6.0 Introduction to Listening to Goddess-God-the Divine
6.1 Listening to the Divine Song in the Classroom
6.2 Methods of Listening to the Divine
6.3 Spiritual Disciplines of Meditation and Prayer as Ways to Listen to the Divine
6.4 Praying in Color as a Contemplative Practice
6.5 Chapter Summary
7.0 Introduction to Assessing Listening to the SONG of Life
7.1 Reviewing the SONG of Life Contexts
7.2 Method
7.3 Results
7.4 Discussion, Limitations, and Future Research
7.5 Chapter Summary
8.0 Introduction to Future Research on Listening to the SONG of Life
8.1 Exploring Future Academic Research and Scholarship
8.2 Exploring Future Autoethnography
8.3 Exploring Future Experiential Activities
8.4 Exploring Future Experiential Learning Activities for Listening to Self
8.5 Exploring Future Experiential Learning Activities for Listening to Others
8.6 Exploring Future Experiential Learning Activities for Listening to Nature
8.7 Exploring Future Experiential Learning Activities for Listening to the Divine
8.8 Exploring Future Disciplinary Perspectives on Listening to the SONG of Life
8.9 Three Final Ideas for Exploring Listening to the SONG of Life: Theory, Practice, and Creativity
8.10 Chapter Summary
Bibliography
Appendix A: Bibliography of TED Talks on Listening to Others
Appendix B: Listening-SONG (L-SONG): Measuring Listening to the SONG of Life
Appendix C: Revised Behavioral Form of L-SONG
Acknowledgements
Previous Published Scholarship
About the Author
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