Openness

Please see below selected recent listening-related change.

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• What's New? - Listening
• What's Changing? - Therapy

August 2019

• The Art of Deep Listening argued that, despite the fact that 55% of our time is spent listening, deep listening is a skill that only 2% of people really grasp. The book argues that we can practice and apply deep listening, and doing so can prevent miscommunications and their effects in the workplace such as job turnover and lost sales.

July 2019

Please see recent education-related change below.

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• What's New? - Education
• What Counts? - Education

August 2019

Please see below selected recent change-related content about change itself.

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• What's New? - Change

June 2019

Please see below recent freedom-related change.

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• Halcyon Freedom Headlines
• Halcyon Choices Headlines

May 2019

Halcyon curates the most significant openness-related content from carefully selected sources. Please contact us if you'd like our help with openness-related challenges.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Inspired by others' little secret acts of kindness, PostSecret is an ongoing community art project where people mail in their secrets anonymously on one side of a postcard.

In the last months of his life, a physically weakened Christopher Hitchens travelled to the Texas Freethought Convention and while there, an eight-year-old girl asked Hitchens what books she should consider reading. Intrigued, Hitchens spent 15 minutes chatting with the youngster and sketching out a reading list (below). His last words to her? "Lots of love...remember the love bit..."

Sad to read of the passing of Colin Wilson, a truly open-minded polymath, whose books, exhaustive range of interests, freedom of expression and seemingly boundless productivity I long found inspiring.

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