Slow Listening – a definition
Slowness and listening exist as mutual tools, supports and enablers. Rather than a register of speed, slow listening advocates for a different way of listening, less orientated towards arriving and understanding, and more engaged in fostering and deepening awareness in process, not of, one’s expansive ways of being in and of the world. Slow listening invites one to allow the breaking of something of oneself, in the attempt of cultivating a presence of frictional not-yetness; a field of potential, generated by not-knowing.
Listening as awareness in process.
Poem for slow listening:
A pause in the naming
Where resting creatures linger
The world shift gently
Developed in the context of a series of online gatherings and workshops organized during 2023 and 2024 with Slow Research Lab and its director Carolyn F. Strauss.