Active Listening: What Does it Look and Feel Like? | Thomas Neal | TEDxHolyokeCC

I often say that hearing is a function, and listening is a desire. I’m always encouraged when people tell me they are good listeners. Understanding what it takes to truly listen opens up people’s experiences with others.
Tom became a certified Parent and Child mediator 27 years ago, serving as a volunteer
mediator for the Center for Human Development. Tom has 14 years of experience as an Organizational Ombudsman for United Technologies Corporation. This role gave him
extensive experience in intercultural conflict management while he was covering the
Asia-Pacific and Australasia region. For the past 5 plus years he has taught a course
titled Conflict Resolution and Mediation at Holyoke Community College. Tom enjoys
the enthusiasm his students show for the subject.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx

[@centpushups]

Probably one of the most demoralizing thing to learn. Cause it makes you realize all my relationship problems could have been remedied on my end by just listening.

[@Ifeloluwa_]

This has to be one of the most insightful talks on listening I have heard. I 'd love to listen to him speak more

[@happinessyogateacher]

Listen to this no matter how bad the acoustics are… it is well worth the listen. What a great speaker, too bad the recording might stop some, but listen anyway!!

[@ha04360]

I can't help but hear him as Peter Griffin Really amazing talk

[@diananakitto1061]

Created an insight on how relationships are affected by ineffective listening

[@jsohi0082]

excellent and informative talk on active listening, I definitely got useful advice after listening to this.

[@theramseyclark]

This was just wonderful. Quite an emotional roller coaster for me, really hit home. Thank you.

[@elianeluty2065]

thank you very much

[@lisawilliams191]

This is gold!

[@bennettmoeller6428]

Thank you for this very informative talk.

[@albertstein7433]

Please TEDx Talks, do something about the audio, cause its really hard to listen to. I hear loud noises :)

[@grantburris]

acoustics are terrible. Producer should have "listened" to it before publishing.

[@paulkaz2127]

Shame, because the content is good but I almost stopped watching/listening because of the audio quality. It was initially extremely taxing. IDK but I would think a good Audio Engineer might be able to filter most of that reverb/hall echo out and maybe compress it some, to give it more clarity and richness.

[@ngoclinhxeng930]

'Nobody is going to change you if you don't want to change' ...

[@jasminejones9937]

The acoustics are horrible in this video on "active listening" .. the irony 🙄

[@John-rb3yv]

This guy is good 😹😹😹😹😹

[@angbuxton]

whaddup HCC

[@pashaveres4629]

Great content. Terrible audio. Difficult camera work - maybe concentrate on the area in which the speaker is walking around? Instead of following him so much? Will look for this guy elsewhere because he really knows his stuff.

[@guelo757]

I really really really tried to actively listen and comprehend through the noisy audience, horrible audio and crazy camera person. 6min 50sec is my stop point score. POST YOUR SCORE, I'M CURIOUS 😜

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[@BeeSweet16]

Do you want validation or a solution?

[@marydb5882]

Geez the way they filmed this is so distracting

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[@John-rb3yv]

Listen dont watch

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[@nikhilarora7681]

if both people choose to listen, who will talk? 😛

[@tski007]

Excellent info. Horrible audio

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