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Explore how to become aware of your own listening habits and develop the skills for adaptive and empathetic listening in this Open Listening Workshop. Informed directly by the lived experience of people who stutter, this interactive workshop allows participants to experience what it means to really create space for stuttering, and for each other. 

The Open Listening Workshop challenges assumptions about time, silence and communication. It’s a mixture of group conversation, interactive exercises and exposure to new ideas about listening. The workshop will be led by Aidan Sank, Executive Director and co-Founder of SPACE, and co-facilitated by stuttering researcher Gen Lamoureux.

The workshop will start with a brief power point presentation that will take the participants through various ideas around communication and listening, and what lessons they can learn from people who stutter. The group will explore a couple of different exercises that play with time, silence and listening styles, and reflect on the ways that we consciously and unconsciously communicate with each other. Participants will spend time as a group reflecting and creating space for silence and stuttering. The experience for participants will be connective, thought-provoking, meditative and rejuvenating.