How can we feel heard and truly understand others?

In a world of constant opinions and distractions the ability to truly listen has become a rare and radical act. All too often, we struggle to feel heard and we miss opportunities to listen more deeply to each other. 

At this special event, author and coach Emily Kasriel will share her work on Deep Listening as a proven approach to help you engage more meaningfully and to truly understand others. Drawing on rigorous academic evidence and real life experiences, Emily will reveal a more effective way of engaging with others, particularly across divides. At a time of deep division and social disconnection, Deep Listening offers us a way to slow down, be more present and create space for curiosity, empathy and respect.

By taking part in this event, you will learn how to use this transformative approach to have more profound connections with people around you and to understand them better, even where you disagree. Whether as a partner, leader, parent, friend or colleague, this may be the most valuable life skill you’ll ever learn.

About the speaker

Emily Kasriel is an author, coach and experienced media executive who has worked extensively with the BBC, reporting and producing from five different continents. She developed the Deep Listening approach at King's College Policy Institute and the London School of Economics. She is also an accredited Executive Coach and a workplace mediator. 

Emily led a BBC British Council project signing up over 1000 young people from 119 countries for her training in Deep Listening – following a pilot of 150 in Lebanon and 300 IBM executives. She has also worked with diverse cohorts of leaders, from the British Army to McDonald’s. Emily ran the BBC Crossing Divides project as well as leading arts and culture, religion and ideas departments at the BBC World Service. She was previously a Senior Adviser to the Skoll Foundation and a Visiting Fellow at Said Business School at the University of Oxford. She has an MA from the University of Oxford and another from Syracuse University.

Emily’s new book is Deep Listening: Transform Your Relationships with Family, Friends and Foes, published by Harper Collins. 

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