{"data":{"ID":634,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1476628653,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Speaking to Listen in the Age of Emojis","Handle":"speaking_to_listen_in_the_age_of_emojis","ShortDescription":"The skill of effective communication has powerful influence in shaping school culture. Teachers, students and leadership are surrounded by feedback on a daily basis from the classroom to meetings to the playing field. Understanding how to communicate can be the difference between listening to react and listening to understand. How one hears, processes and delivers feedback can be powerful in shaping the tone of personal and professional relationships. In this workshop theory, practice and your experiences will be used to examine what it takes to host effective and productive conversations with colleagues and students.","Description":"In this session attendees will be participating in a conversation that dissects the skill of listening. In an age of communicating through emoticons, memes and alone togetherness connectivity has failed to live up to its potential of creating strong community of practice that co-creates regularly. This sessions is about digging deep into biases, being honest about one\u2019s triggers, world views and perspectives of empathy.  The need for this discussion is rooted in the relationship between being aware of our own place of knowing and how to participate in effective, productive conversations. We will talk about how to design conversations by harnessing the knowledge of those already in the space.\r\nThis session is built at the intersection of several practices including The Art of Hosting, Theory U and the books Tell Me So I Can Hear You and Thanks for the Feedback. Most importantly, it will be driven by the connections the attendees contribute. This session is not structured by bullet points, rather designed to flex to the needs and curiosities of the participants.","Link":["http:\/\/dianalynnpotts.blogspot.com","http:\/\/karenblumberg.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"Our goal for this conversation is to have the participants engaged to the level that we won\u2019t be tweeting. This session will include participant driven exercises taken from several resources including The Art of Hosting. Time allowing and depending on the needs of the participants this session may include:\r\nEmpathic Listening (an exercise is listening)\r\nAmygdala Hijack (identifying your triggers for grounded conversations)\r\nFour-fold Practice (a framework for mindful conversations)","Presenter":["Diana Potts","Karen Blumberg","Mike Ritzius"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Ethical Culture Fieldston School","Brearley School","New Jersey Education Association"],"PresenterEmail":["dianalynnpotts@gmail.com","karenblumberg@gmail.com","Mritzius@gmail.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":78,"ScheduleLocationID":6,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6}}