#ListenFirst

Описание: Happy #ListenFirst Friday!

I’m Emily Kasriel, and I’m thrilled to share my new book Deep Listening: Transform Your Relationships with Family, Friends and Foes with this community. Deep Listening is an eight-step approach I developed for the conversations that matter most—especially when we disagree. It’s grounded in research (published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology with 1,000 people from 119 countries).

I've shared the approach with diverse communities in Lebanon, in the Baltic states just after the Russian full scale invasion of Ukraine, in Ethiopia helping youth leaders to navigate fierce ethnic tensions and in board rooms. In the US, I’ve worked with the Ford Foundation, Pearson PLC, and the Atlantic Council, and have given lectures at Columbia University and Vassar College. But there’s also a personal thread: my father came to the UK as a child refugee before World War II, and I lost him when I was 13. In my grief, no one knew how to listen. That experience has driven my work ever since—to help people feel truly heard, in particular across lines of difference.

I’d love to connect with others in this community. Please reach out via my website if you’d like to explore how we might collaborate at https://www.emilykasriel.com/.