listen!
listen!
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to your teacher
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to your student
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to your father
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to your anscestor
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to your hyacinth
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to your geranium
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to your hibiscus
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to your emptiness
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to your elbow
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to your inner wisdom
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to your toast
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to your host
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to your ghost
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listen! ☆ to your teacher ☆ to your student ☆ to your father ☆ to your anscestor ☆ to your hyacinth ☆ to your geranium ☆ to your hibiscus ☆ to your emptiness ☆ to your elbow ☆ to your inner wisdom ☆ to your toast ☆ to your host ☆ to your ghost ☆
do something radical
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écoutez!
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à ton battement de coeur
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à ton ami
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à ton chien
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à ta copine
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à la lueur des bougies
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à ta belle âme
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à ton voisin
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à ton oncle
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à ta tourterelle
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à ta tortue
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à ta planète
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à ton pouls
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do something radical ☆ écoutez! ☆ à ton battement de coeur ☆ à ton ami ☆ à ton chien ☆ à ta copine ☆ à la lueur des bougies ☆ à ta belle âme ☆ à ton voisin ☆ à ton oncle ☆ à ta tourterelle ☆ à ta tortue ☆ à ta planète ☆ à ton pouls ☆
radically!
radical listening 4 beautiful souls
Pause the chatter and the whatnot this Saturday.
For the price of a meal at Prét á Manger take up this once-in-a-Hunter moon opportunity.
In times of senseless conflict, global pain, and climate catastrophe, we all need to step back. Step up. Tend to the soul within. To listen from a deeper, more radical place.
Join facilitator Dr. Nancy Ellen Miller (@the.insight.out) and host Joel Cross (@soulcalledjoel) with the Beautiful Souls’ Community for a one-hour workshop in Radical Listening.
Walk away with practical tools to:
Enter into your own dialogue of Self and Soul (Discover what’s most enduring within you and to acknowledge it).
Tend to your spirit through radical listening as you nurture the listening skills those within your wider community.
Lean into your innate presence and power.
Listen faithfully to your intuitive wisdom. Trust its capacity for insight and right action.
Overcome biases and prejudices by deepening your empathetic and active listening skills.
Inspire greater trust within your institution or organization.
Manage difficult conversations with a less ego and greater ease.
Where: The private Zoom Room of the Beautiful Souls Community
When: Saturday, November 4, 2023
experience
10 am Toronto, NYC, Boston
9 am Dallas, Chicago, Mexico City
2 pm London, Dublin, Edinburgh
9 pm Bangkok, Ha , Luang Prabang
Learn how to:
Meet your instructor
Dr. Nancy Ellen Miller
Dr. Nancy Ellen Miller is an educator, coach, consultant, and interdisciplinary artist with two decades of experience as a creative leader.
Whether dancing her doctoral thesis at Dartington Hall in Devon, England, teaching the principles of creative flow to teachers-in-training at Howest University in Bruges, Belgium, or co-leading a silent meditation retreat in Oaxaca, Mexico, Nancy works diligently within the dharma, or teaching, that we’re all (inter)connected.
Committed to deepening her own and others’ heart of insight, Nancy encourages “practice-led” and “research-based” insights that tends toward the unorthodox. She encourages soulful experimentation with concepts. Her interdisciplinary artwork exploring memory, nature, and loss has been highlighted at symposiums and exhibitions across Europe.
Nancy’s practice of Radical Listening (whether as an educator, artist, or coach), has deepened her connection to her native country of Canada and has connected her more fully to the people and places she has worked with and within abroad in Wales, America, England, Ireland, India, Nepal, Thailand, the Czech Republic, and The Netherlands.
Studying and teaching yoga at ashrams and monasteries across the UK, Europe, the Americas, East Asia, and SouthEast Asia, in her work as a certified mindfulness-based coach, Nancy integrates applied neuroscience and somatic healing practices in her training.
Nancy specializes in helping women to move from disempowering states of mind to ones of deeper presence and power.
Meet your host
Joel Cross
Joel Cross is a poet, meditation teacher, and Grammy-award-nominated musician known widely on TikTok , Instagram, YouTube, Spotify, and Facebook as @asoulcalledjoel.
Reaching hundreds of thousands through his music and spoken word affirmations online, Joel inspires listeners to reconnect with their hearts.
In his Beautiful Souls meditation community, Joel provides a soft space for grounding, healing, and transformation.
Growing up in Cleburne, Texas, Joel sang gospel songs with his seven siblings and fell in love with soul, classical and R&B.. At the tender age of 12, he taught himself to play guitar.
Studying Jazz at the University of Houston and the University of North Texas in Denton, Joel’s heartfelt approach to storytelling and his talent for making each piece of music his own is unparalleled.
You may know Joel from his happenstance hit: the soulful rendition of Taylor Swift’s “Shake it Off”.
In 2015, a fan uploaded Joel covering Swift at the Dallas Arboterum and Botanical Gardens. The next morning, the viral video hit half-a-million viewers and Joel’s face appeared on every major news source in Dallas. His solful talent has won over Ellen DeGeneres, America’s Got Talent, Capitol Records, Time, and MTV.
In 2017, Joel collaborated with India Arie on the album SongVersation: Medicine, which was nominated for a Grammy. The musical duo has received ongoing praise, admiration, not to mention another Grammy nomination for their 2019 album, Worthy.
Our brains are a-buzz with the static cling of a 1001 clipped mobile rings.
In line at a Manhattan deli.
At the helm of a sailboat on Lake Como
On a love seat in your living room.
The ringing unrelenting, unsettling, unnerving.
But, hey. Listen.
What notes lie beneath that noise?
What train on which track is calling?
Take a breath. A long exhale. Be here. Now. Pause. Repeat.
Is your ring-ring, bling-bling, sting-sting still unstringing you?
Which ocean stirs beneath your waves?
Even the helplessly verbose amongst us can learn to listen.
Über successful people seek attention rarely.
Albert Einstein hated the telephone.
Ruth Bader Ginsberg chose her words wisely.
The sacred art of listening is not lost. It is an ancient key. To strong connections. To robust communities.
To perfect your art of radical listening, all you need to do is take one step towards “absence” or what some Eastern philosophies call “absent presence.”
Absent of excessive worries. Absent of excessive doubts.
Keep walking ears wide open.
Eyes wide open. Heart wide with patience and practice.
Fill your bucket with compassion and use it as your compass.
Listening is a path worth walking.
It heals us.
Tempers us.
Puts us in contact with our full original being.
Radical listening is an act of resistance.
A protest to the “the attention economy.”
Acts of listening go unnoticed. Unrecorded. Unmeasurable.
Deep radical listening presents us with an opportunity for radical healing.
Our inner voices long to be heard.
The bodies, hearts, and souls within and without us long to love and love to listen.
