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Seven Challenges Workbook: A Guide to Cooperative Communi- cation Skills for Success at Home and at Work.  By Dennis Rivers. Printed edition of PDF e-book featured on this web site.  Topics include listening more responsively, expressing yourself more clearly, asking questions more creatively and expressing more gratitude.  100 pages[English edition], 8.5" x 11", spiral bound.  PDF copies are free. Price for printed copies: $10 +postage (Printed and PDF versions are identical and come with the same Creative Commons permission to make copies.)  Click to order or download as shown below:

The Geometry of Dialogue: A Visual Way of Understanding Interpersonal Communication and Human Development.  By Dennis Rivers.  Printed edition of e-book featured for free on this site.  Explores the dynamic patterns the unfold within and between people.  Relates talking and listening to longterm processes of human development.  Supports and explains various chapters in the Seven Challenges Workbook.  Click here for extended description.   200 pages, 8.5" x 11", paperback. Printed copies are available for $20 (+ postage) from the Lulu Online Bookstore.

Are You Really Listening?: Keys to Successful Communication By Paul J. Donoghue, PhD, and Mary E. Siegel, PhD.  

Listening is an essential skill worth every effort to learn and to master. Listening takes us out of our tendency toward self-absorption and self-protection. It opens us to the world around us and to the persons who matter most to us. When we listen, we learn, we grow, and we are nourished.

Why do we often feel cut off when speaking to the people closest to us? What is it that keeps so many of us from really listening? Practicing psychotherapists, Donoghue and Siegel answer these questions and more in this thoughtful, witty, and helpful look at the reasons why people don't listen. Filled with vivid examples that clearly demonstrate easy-to-learn listening techniques, Are You Really Listening? is a guide to the secrets and joys of listening and being listened to. [From the publisher, Quest Books] List price new, appx. $16.  ISBN: 0835608263.  

This book can be found around the world, including used copies, via the online Global Find-A-Book service of Human Development Books, Berkeley.

The Zen of Listening: Mindful Communication in the Age of Distraction By Rebecca Z. Shafir.   What do family members, coworkers, and friends want most but seldom get? Your undivided attention. Poor listening can be a cause of divorce, depression, customer dissatisfaction, low grades, and other ills. This Zen-based, practical guide will help you build relationships, sharpen concentration, create loyal clients, strengthen negotiating skills, hear what others miss, and get them to hear. [From the publisher, Quest Books] List price new, appx. $16.  ISBN: 0835608263.
 
This book can be found around the world, including
used copies, via the online Global Find-A-Book service
of Human Development Books, Berkeley.

The Wisdom of Listening  Edited by Mark Brady.  In this thoughtful anthology, eighteen contemporary spiritual teachers explore the transformative effects, and the difficulties, of skillful listening and suggest ways in which becoming a 'listening warrior' -- someone who listens mindfully wiith focused attention -- can improve relationships.  Free of religious dogma and self help clichés, the essays are inspiring, intelligent and accessible. [from the back cover]  (List price new, appx $17. ISBN: 0861713559)




This book can be found around the world, including
used copies, via the online Global Find-A-Book service
of Human Development Books, Berkeley.
  

The Sacred Art of Listening: Forty Reflections for Cultivating a Spiritual Practice.  By Kay Lindahl, teacher and writer.  A series of personal meditations on what it means to listen with an open heart. Designed to illumine your spiritual journey, this book provides access to a new way of listening -- to Source, to self and to others. (List price, appx $16.00  ISBN 1893361446. Look for this book at your local library, order from your favorite local bookstore or click on one of the buttons below to order from the NewConversations+Amazon Books Link.)  Also, see Kay Lindahl's beautiful web site with a visual meditation on listening in the form of an animated slide show.  

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