Peterson Book Review: Why Don’t We Listen Better? Summary of Book Jim Peterson’s book outlines a very informative and simplistic way to becoming a better listener. Peterson has come up with the idea of sharing a card that allows the talker and the listener to take turns sharing their ideas. He stated three part on how people communicate: stomach‚ heart‚ and head. First is the stomach which consist of the feelings and emotions those inner nudges that let us know when we are uncomfortable‚ happy
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Practical Book Review One: Why Don’t We Listen Better Presented to Prof. Max Mills‚ M.Div‚ PH.D Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary Lynchburg‚ VA In Partial Fulfillment Of The Requirements For The Course PACO 500 Introduction to Pastoral Counseling By Marcus A. Banks-Bey February 12‚ 2012 Petersen‚ James C. 2011. Why Don’t We Listen Better? Communicating and Connecting in Relationships. Portland‚ OR: Petersen Publications
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willing to go to extremes to avoid confrontation. However‚ with the expansion of the internet world‚ many of those who are too afraid to voice their opinion in public have an outlet to complain behind the mask of a computer screen. In the essay “Why Don’t We Complain‚” Buckly uses multiple personal anecdotes to show how our culture
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Summary James C. Peterson‚ author of Why Don’t We Listen Better? Communicating & Connecting in Relationships‚ through trial and error learned the value of communication balancing in which he found that the counselor must listen awhile‚ talk until the other person stops hearing and then listen until the person calms enough to hear again.(Peterson‚ 2007 Pg. 5) This concept is enlarged into a process in which Peterson calls the flat-brain syndrome. The purpose of the writing of this book according
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because I didn’t know about Thanksgiving. I knew it was the reason why my teacher spent the days leading up to it having us make hand turkeys and watch the Charlie Brown special in class‚ but my family never celebrated it. I never realized how strange that was until I shared it with a friend the week before. “What do you mean you don’t celebrate Thanksgiving?!” he exclaimed. I recall the awkward predicament this put me in‚
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HEY! My Summary Petersen‚ James C.2007. Why don’t we listen better? Communicating and connecting in relationships. Tigard‚ OR: Petersen Publications. James Petersen (2007) uses five parts to describe the talking and listening to help us process a better way of communicating and understanding each other. They are provided to help us connect in our relationships with others. According to Petersen‚ most of us think we listen well‚ but we don’t. Not really hearing what others have
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In his essay "How We Listen‚" Aaron Copland classifies and divides the listening process into three parts: "the sensuous place‚ the expressive plane‚ and the sheerly musical plane" (1074). I believe by this mechanical separation‚ Copland succeeds in discussing difficult topic‚ so natural that most people tend to by pass it. He uses analogy and sometimes stresses on certain situation where these planes are abused or become a cause of a problem. The main purpose for Copland to separate the listening
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entitled “Why Don’t We Complain?” The essay poses the question‚ why don’t modern Americans complain‚ share their opinions‚ or take a stand? The essay‚ unintentionally‚ sums up what we can learn from Buckley in today’s world. Even though it was written over fifty years ago‚ Buckley’s call upon Americans to make a stand‚ and advocate for themselves remains just as important today as in 1961. We can learn from Buckley’s career of challenging institutions and ideologies to challenge what we believe to
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the freedom we have on voting for which president we want to have‚ but some people just don’t think that way. As a consequence‚ voter turnouts during presidential elections has been traditionally low. There are a number of reasons why people may not vote such as a lack of understanding of politics‚ people being busier‚ a lack of trust in the government‚ laziness; which is disrespectful‚ and not caring or even contentment with how things are. But when people
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Effectively Communicating in an Interpersonal Relationship To the newly wedded couple‚ It has occurred to me that our current generation seems to lack the ability to communicate effectively with in an interpersonal relationships and it is through cooperation‚ collaboration‚ and compromise that an effective flow of communication occurs. If we analyzing and studying the communication process of both sending and receiving information‚ we can improve our ability to communicate effectively between
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