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About Me

Location:
Canada, Toronto Ontario
Current organization:
Educator
Past organizations:
PDK International, IHTEC, Hebert H. Carnegie Future Aces Foundation
Gender:
Female
I am:
Athlete, Brainstormer, Change Agent, Concerned citizen, Educator/Teacher, Environmentalist, Explorer, Parent, Photographer, World traveler

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    A comment on Conversation: How are we going to get Conscious Listening into schools?

    Aug 5 2011: I love your idea! You will be happy to know that, as a school principal, I developed a poster to be used in my school (and now have passed it on to many others) because we, as a staff, found that our elementary students were not listening in class. Basically, we defined the effective listener in two parts - the physical and the mental. There were six descriptors, the first three applying to the physical, the last three to the mental. The six descriptors of the
    EFFECTIVE LISTENER are:
    1. I have my hands and my body still
    2. I have my eyes on the speaker
    3. I have my mouth closed.
    4. I can follow instructions.
    5. I can ask or answer a question on topic.
    6. I can make a comment, suggestion or connection on topic.

    Anyone who reads this little comment is free to use the idea and perhaps in some small way promote Julian's goal of making the world a less scary place. I certainly will use his ideas in conjunction with the 'poster' on the effective listener.

    Cheers,

    Dianne Leggatt

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