“Listening gives shape to speaking, inviting other people into a dialogue that impacts our everyday lives.”
Workshops. Keynote Presentations. Organizational Consulting. Individualized Coaching.
Do you want to move beyond just sharing information to being understood?
Do you struggle with listening to others in your interpersonal relationships?
Do you want to improve your listening skills with people from diverse backgrounds?
Do you want to develop better listening habits in your organizations?
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RESILIENCE MINI-BOOTCAMP: For Health Care Providers and the Teams on Burnout, Demoralization, Secondary Trauma, and Moral Distress
This course is First Aid in the form of Resilience Training for all of us who are directly involved in health care – and to any who are working hard behind the scenes caring for us in our missions. We are all in this together. Sign Up At: https://virtuemedicine.com/product-category/resilience-bootcamps/
We want to connect with what you’re experiencing in your work and bring help directly to you. Our faculty are interdisciplinary experts, each with over 20 years in field work and scholarship: Janeta Tansey, MD, PhD (Iowa – Bioethics, Psychiatry, Executive Coaching), Cheryl Erwin, JD, PhD (Texas – Bioethics, Health Law Scholar, Executive Coaching), Elizabeth Parks, MA, PhD (Colorado – Communication Ethics, Public Health). The Q&A section is facilitated by JoAnna Romero Cartaya, PhD (Iowa – Psychology, Ethics)
Listening. Dialogue. Diversity. Connection.
Elizabeth Parks is a communication scholar with a history of research and teaching in listening, dialogue, diversity and communication ethics. She focuses on how to promote community well-being in her classrooms, engaged scholarship, and mentoring relationships. A specialist in culture, disability, race & ethnicity, and multilingualism, she has many years of working with a variety of cultural and service communities in dozens of countries around the world. Currently she teaches others how to listen in more creative ways, focusing on the communication challenges that are found in Higher Education and community care. She trains people in multicultural interviewing and focus group skills, personalized cross-cultural adaptation, interpersonal communication in border/third-culture spaces, and is currently pursuing ground-breaking research in how to promote digital being and well-being in our organizational spaces, especially through intentional listening to each other stories.
Dr. Parks’ scholarship is grounded in the belief that our individual, relational, and organizational lives are enriched by bravely creating hospitable spaces of dialogue across difference. Her first book, "The Ethics of Listening: Creating Space for Sustainable Dialogue," was published in 2019. As a pragmatist, she strives to lean into paradoxical questions to better understand the values, attitudes, and skills that can make intercultural dialogue a challenging but constructive practice for everyone.
