The ear from nowhere: Listening techniques and the politics of negation in the practice of Japanese interfaith chaplains

The value of listening and listening for values in conservation

“…Understanding practices of listening thus entails understanding the listeners involved, and the positions, perspectives, power and values they bring with them to relationships of listening. Whilst some listeners may attempt to suppress their own selves to encourage the speaker to speak, thereby cultivating an ‘ear from nowhere’ (Berman, 2020), others emphasise that the relationality of listening (Bennett et al., 2015) demands that listening is always performed from ‘somewhere’. Understanding the positionality of the listener becomes important as it may affect their ability and attitude in relationships of listening.…”

Three Emerging Spiritual Practices in the Canadian Association for Spiritual Care (CASC): From Pastoral Care and Counselling to Multi-Faith, Evidence-Based Spiritual Care and Psycho-Spiritual Therapy

“…An anthropologist, Michael Berman (2018Berman ( , 2020, working in Japan after the tsunami of 2011, observed multi-faith chaplains training to help victims and family members affected by the tsunami. Most chaplains in the training sessions were Buddhist but there were some Shinto and Christian chaplains.…”