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Click Here to access this years International Day of Listening “Event Planning Guide”.
The Event Planning Guide is provided as a PDF document that can be either filled out online or printed.
Healing Relationships
Healing Divisiveness
Healing During Difficult Times
Healing through Poetry
IDL 2023 Theme: Healing Relationships through Better Listening
IDL 2023 will be held on September 21, 2023.
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF LISTENING:
Healing Relationships through Better Listening
September 21, 2023
Often times the simplest answer to a problem is the most difficult to achieve. Being a good listener is no exception. Listening can be challenging at times, bringing about emotion or defensiveness that you didn’t realize even existed. Being good at listening takes effort, sincere curiosity, asking questions, having a space to converse void of distraction, and sometimes even the need to hold back your thoughts until the other side has said what they need to say.
This year’s IDL will focus on how to become a better listener as well as how doing so can contribute to healing relationships.
Getting a head start on planning an event for IDL 2023? Click Here to access the 2023 Planning Worksheet, email your plan to info@internationaldayoflistening.com, and we’ll put your event on the 2023 map (see map below)! (Only the city and country will be shared on the map. No other information will be shared.)
Post information and pictures that you want to share on the IDL Facebook page.
Listening Tips
Check out the list of “10 Listening Tips”. In addition, there are videos that further explain and illustrate the listening tips.
Mini Course Recordings
This link takes you to the International Listening Association site, where you can access course recordings as well as gather more information on listening.
Listening Moments
Sample the recordings of a variety of things to listen to, including poetry, songs, music, speeches, podcasts, sounds of nature and more. Explore what impact these different listening experiences have on you.
Thanks to all of you who participated in the 2022 International Day of Listening! We hope you had meaningful conversations that promoted positive connections. With better connections, perhaps we can solve problems more successfully and reap the benefits of good relationships.
Let’s continue to “listen to heal”!
Send an email to info@internationaldayoflistening.com and tell us about your event, and share your experiences on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
Listen to Heal September 15, 2022
The need for healing and putting things back together again is felt around the globe. In addition to a virus, divisiveness is challenging individuals, families, circles of friends, and work teams. How can we bridge the gaps that have opened and how can we bring about healing?
The 2022 IDL focused on what and how listening can contribute to bringing about the healing. We could be part of the medicine that can offer relief – for us and for those around us.
IDL 2022 was held on September 15, 2022.
birth of the international day of listening (idl)
The International Day of Listening (IDL) was born, as many brilliant ideas, at a dinner table! Sheila Bentley came up with the idea of a special day to promote #listening in the world and bring interest to the #InternationalListeningAssociation (ILA).
The IDL is a one-day event that is sponsored by the International Listening Association (ILA) and was initiated in 2016. The IDL takes place the third Thursday of September each year. The day promotes a variety of events from one-on-one conversations with friends and family to business or community meetings to governments and their citizens talking about mutual concerns.
Sheila Bentley, Ph.D. (U.S.A.)
Margarete Imhof (Germany)
Co-Chair IDL 2021
Professor, Dr. at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
P +49 6131 393 9173
Dr. Krishna Naineni (England)
Co-Chair of IDL 2021
Jugal Bhatt (India)
GOAL
To increase awareness of the value of listening and provide resources to help people develop better listening skills and strategies.
MISSION
To promote better listening in our conversations that lead to better relationships and solutions to problems that will help make us better humans.
VISION
To foster better listening in all phases of life, in all contexts, and all around the world. The International Day of Listening will be recognized throughout the world as one of the main events for the promotion of listening.
The International Day of Listening is strongly backed by an enormous base of knowledge, The International Listening Association. Since 1979 ILA founders and members have been totally dedicated to advocating that listening skills are the key to becoming better humans and building a better civilization together.
The International Listening Association (ILA) is a professional organization consisting of a network of people committed to the development of effective listening in professional and personal lives. We are involved in listening in education, business, healthcare, hospitality, music and many other fields. We promote the study of listening, exchange information and pursue research into the ways in which listening can develop understanding in our personal, political, social and working lives. The International Listening Association serves as a dialogue space, a resource network, a news source and an international community – our members are working in more than 19 countries across the globe.
For more information about the International Listening Association visit: www.listen.org
