In this episode, we welcome Graham Bodie, professor of integrated marketing communication at the University of Mississippi, and chief listening officer with the Listen First Project.
As with Civity, the Listen First Project supports the creation of bridging relationships – focusing its efforts on elevating the impact, visibility, and voice of organizations doing bridging work.
We explore how Listen First brings bridging organizations together and works to bring more people to the experience of connecting across differences.
We also discuss the act of listening itself, the importance of learning how to listen, and what listening looks like in different contexts.
Civity is a culture of deliberately engaging in relationships of respect and empathy with others who are different.
Our world today is one of haves and have-nots, insiders and outsiders, people who belong and people who are marginalized because they are other.
By reaching out person-to-person to others who are different, all of us together create the relational infrastructure to build solidarity, justice, and resilience in our communities.
Our differences are our strengths. This is ‘civity.’
Our podcast showcases interviews with people bridging power-based divides to move communities forward on issues grounded in inequities.
In this episode, we welcome Graham Bodie, professor of integrated marketing communication at the University of Mississippi, and chief listening officer with the Listen First Project.
As with Civity, the Listen First Project supports the creation of bridging relationships – focusing its efforts on elevating the impact, visibility, and voice of organizations doing bridging work.
We explore how Listen First brings bridging organizations together and works to bring more people to the experience of connecting across differences.
We also discuss the act of listening itself, the importance of learning how to listen, and what listening looks like in different contexts.
