The Art of Generous Listening | Krista Tippett | Talks at Google

Krista Tippett founded and leads “The On Being Project,” hosts the globally esteemed On Being public radio show and podcast, and curates the “Civil Conversations Project,” an emergent approach to conversation and relationships across the differences of our age. She is a Peabody-award winning broadcaster, National Humanities Medalist, New York Times bestselling author, and the 2019 Mimi and Peter E. Haas Distinguished Visitor at Stanford University.
Danielle Krettek from Google Empathy Lab welcomes Tippett for a conversation on "The Art of Generous Listening", where they discuss creating spaces of trust and unfolding with curiosity, intention and hospitality. Listening is about being actively present, not just about being quiet. It's a practice of being open to the mystery and surprise. Central is a theme of deep human care and empathy, how to "repair the world we can touch" by bringing back the social art of connection and asking our eternal human questions - what it means to be human, how to live well and how we are to be with each other. Krettek and Tippett discuss topics from technology to wisdom to beauty, enjoying moments with Mary Oliver and John O'Donohoe's poetry to Pico Iyer's urge for slowness.
Moderated by Danielle Krettek.

[@aletheabodine4819]

I love how she dances with her hands - watch how she plays with her fingertips, extends her fingers, claps at the air, gestures with generosity - rotating hands outward and inward - pressing through the space with the different surfaces of her hands. It is her way of staying present, but also her way of expressing the intangible with the tangible. Great revelations and insight on/into the human condition ~ Bless you Krista Tippett. Thank you for the share, Talks at (with) Google

[@sofiatison7847]

such a beautiful way of conveying a beautiful observation

[@johnathanronnie7496]

a trick: you can watch series on flixzone. Been using it for watching all kinds of movies lately.

[@quintonellis558]

@Johnathan Ronnie yea, I have been watching on flixzone for since november myself :)

[@bibofmahatti9000]

From my experience I know and can tell now when someone gives you time to talk (and while doing so is busy preparing to answer) or is listening, really listening.

[@sofiatison7847]

such a magical human being. so much wisdom.

[@ineshoster7053]

I love the many ways Krista talks about deep listening, such as being hospitable, generous, vulnerable. She needs to talk to the Congress and Senate!!! Thank you for your insights.

[@UmaYoga108]

@@ineshoster7053 That would be nice .. really nice!!

[@violetchristophe]

The emphasis on "surprise" is interesting. It seems to me that surprise requires a view to be subverted, for a surprise to really be effective. It suppose one can enter a room with preconceived notions about where a speaker stands, but it's the openness to be shown something other than what has been assumed or expected that is where the surprise comes from. I think that's just how life works... Rarely in the exact way we planned or hoped.

[@diBundy]

what a beautiful discussion with beautiful questions

[@headlessspaceman5681]

I love how she calls herself a journalist instead of Queen Woo The Feel-Good Guru

[@sweetjsphn7594]

I love this. My first time listening to Krista on the non-moderator side. I only wish the moderator here would “mmm” less. It’s a little distracting. But otherwise this is so insightful and I plan to watch it again because I think I need more time to digest

[@delatroy]

She is very chill

[@jonathanedwardgibson]

Enjoy your show early every Sunday AM on KALW SAn Francisco

[@natestenson782]

Holy crap I love her.

[@UmaYoga108]

Me too!

[@DA-lf7jc]

Was interested in Krista but the intro went on so long I decided to find another source.

[@intlprofs1]

Can't hear Danielle well- its her vocal fry or the KZbin poor sound quality

[@oliverimmich781]

Generous listening - seemed to be lacking among some Google employees and the upper staff when James Damore got fired from Google for a very pensive and sensitive drafted piece. A lot of the freethinkery in the company seems to have become lost. I doubt people like Hitchens were invited today for giving talks. Following the Zeitgeist, the border of thinking in a lot of these talks is more and more defined by what is socially serviceable and utile.

[@robertreid2931]

Most of these presentations are merely self-indulgent feelgood sessions that are long on buzzwords and catchphrases, but short on real substance or insight. The comments here are just extensions of the mindset. This company is the antithesis of what little substance this talk contained. These people would probably explode if Hitchens walked in the room.

[@elizabethk3238]

Love what she's saying, but hand movements very distracting.

[@shaduck06]

What happened to Krista's luxurious red hair

[@chrismclaughlin3196]

Really?!

[@sharonbritton7025]

Yes, that’s really an important question. Not.