The next Something Else Studio on Saturday 7 December will be our last for 2024. We look forward to welcoming you for this seasonal celebration of the phenomenon of listening. Please note there will be no studio session on Saturday 2 November.
In this experiential presentation, Tanya Coburn will encourage us to explore images of the ‘annunciation’ and ponder how cultivating tenderness and receptivity can help us herald the birth of something new in human life.
The session will encourage curiosity about deepening our capacity for listening to help us experience what we long for from our deepest selves, as well as what calls us from the world. In a deeply polarised and individualised world, our capacities to attend to what is speaking from our own inner wisdom or through the words of others, through conflict and resonance, become increasingly important.
You will be invited to practice some simple collaborative exercises, so we can observe our own receptivity, tenderness and listening. How can we listen for what is announcing itself in our lives?
Join us for the exploration as well as for conversation and afternoon tea.
Tanya Coburn presents this final episode of Something Else Studio for 2024. She is fascinated by the role of listening, and strives to deepen it in her own life. As part of this process, she researched a PhD to seek a deeper understanding of the role of listening in transforming conflict.
Her life background has included a focus on speaking and listening as a healing pathway. She has worked as a mentor and facilitator, as a teacher in higher education and in Steiner education, as well as in word-based roles as a writer and editor in academic and corporate communication.
Saturday 7th December 2024Â 3pm
319 Auburn Road, Hawthorn Vic 3121
recommended donation $20
members/concession $15
Donations can be paid at the door on the day or deposited into the following bank account under “Something else studio’
The Christian Community in Australia Melbourne Inc
BSB 313 140, Account No. 12260444
A few helpful references
Gilda Bartel has explored tenderness in an experiential and artistic way. Rudolf Steiner emphasised listening out of non-judgment, openness and positivity as fundamental spiritual exercises in texts like ‘How to know higher worlds‘ (e.g. Chapter 2, Section 10). Otto Scharmer and his colleagues have developed four levels of listening to demonstrate the deeper listening required to welcome what’s emerging from the future. Georg KĂĽhlewind focused on attending to speaking and listening as a spiritual exercise.
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