Why Don’t We Listen Better: Communicating & Connecting in Relationships

by James C. Petersen

Publisher:

Petersen Publications

, 2022

Overview

Dr. Jim Petersen says, You can listen your way to better relationships. His often humorous book, loaded with practical tips, examples, and techniques, can bail you out of many touchy situations. It highlights an approach to getting along with folks with whom you really don’t agree. His powerfully intuitive yet tongue-in-cheek Flat Brain Syndrome shows how and why we and others get upset and confused and what to do about it. We may think we are good listeners, but not many of us are. When others talk, we focus on what we think, rather than what they are trying to say. Few of us know how to use the power of listening to improve life for ourselves or those around us. Jim says that good communication uses the same skills in a professional office, on a date, in a corporate boardroom, or at a kitchen table. He discusses the need to abandon the win-lose mentality of the courtroom-like culture that so often puts us at odds with each other. Listen shows how to improve talking and listening/counseling skills using the Talker-Listener Card. It emphasizes the taking turns mode we learned as children and can end arguing as we know it. From intimate to casual and work-related communication, Petersen’s TLC is practical, easy to use and portable, a format that elevates idle banter and argument into the arena of authentic dialogue. When people use the Card they help each other relax, think clearer and build empathy and cooperation.

Key Features

• Highlights an approach to getting along with folks with whom you really don’t agree.
• Shows how to improve talking and listening/counseling skills.
• Elevates idle banter and argument into the arena of authentic dialogue.

Product Details

• Title: Why Don't We Listen Better? Communicating & Connecting in Relationships, 3rd Edition
• Author: James C. Petersen
• Edition: Third Edition
• Publisher: Petersen Publications
• Print Publication Date: 2022
• Logos Release Date: 2024
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
• Subjects: Interpersonal communication; Communication in families; Communication in marriage; Interpersonal relations; Listening
• ISBNs: 9780979155994, 9780979155987, 0979155991, 0979155983
• Resource ID: LLS:WYDNTWLTNBTR3
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-11-22T18:55:25Z

About James C. Petersen

James C. Peterson, is a veteran retired pastor and professional counselor’s unique approach to listening has changed lives. He distilled forty plus years of pastoral experience, counseling and teaching into his book. Jim has taught in the corporate world, city governments, colleges and universities, the hearing-impaired community, students, teachers, parents, couples and churches. The informal manner that endeared him to novices and experts alike is reflected in this valuable book (now third edition). It is for anyone who wants to communicate well with others and develop basic counseling skills. Jim retired from Southminster Presbyterian Church in Beaverton OR in 1999. The church granted him Pastor Emeritus status to honor his thirty-two years of leadership there. He served two other churches in Oregon in his forty-year ministry. Until 2019 he was a Licensed Professional Counselor in Oregon. His degrees include Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry from San Francisco Theological Seminary and a BA in mathematics from Lewis and Clark College in Portland, OR, (note the infinity symbols at the end of each chapter). He is semi-retired. He edited the Third Edition of Why Don't We Listen Better? while recovering from quintuple by-pass surgery. He lives and travels with his writer wife, Sally. (Most of the time they use the communication methods he teaches.)