Reflections from the Listening Academy Singapore

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The Listening Academy was held in Singapore in August 2023, bringing together a diverse range of practitioners to explore questions of loss, and in what ways listening contributes to attending to bodily vitality and healing. The attached document brings together reflections from the Academy's main facilitators, who speak about their practices and approaches. 

Contributions from Listening Academy Singapore 2023: Loss Attunement co-convenors Alecia Neo and Jill J. Tan, and workshop facilitators Jevon Chandra, Li-chuan Chong, Kristina Mah, Yifan Wang, and Beverly Yuen, with Brandon LaBelle.

Listening Circle Attendees:
Alecia Neo, Jill J. Tan, Li-chuan Chong, Jevon Chandra, Kristina Mah, Yifan Wang, Chong Gua Khee, Dapheny Chen, Shirley Soh, Nurul Rashid, Fang-Tze Hsu, Pat Toh, Hasyimah Harith, Horhaizad Adam, Bernice Lee, Chan Lishan, Brandon LaBelle.

More information about the Listening Academy program in Singapore can be found here: https://www.brack.sg/index.php/2023/07/06/listening-academy-loss-attunement/

Across the workshops, we seek to move beyond normative hearing, seeing, and sensing. We ask: What is knowing, feeling, making, hearing in process? How do we come to knowledge through/ of silence? How do we engage in processes of attuning to the environment, unclotting coagulated wounds, and healing without teleological expectations?
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“A Listening Mandala” (2023) by Kristina Mah, digital artwork for the workshop “Somatic Listening – Nine Contemplations” at the Listening Academy, Singapore.
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