On Tuesday, July 26th beginning at 10:00 am, a group of nine faculty and staff will become the first to bring the University-wide We Listen program to the Beaver community. Participants will be learning the ropes of facilitating story listening techniques in their courses, teams, groups and other facets of campus life. They will also get a chance to go hands on and practice the story gathering process, gaining valuable insight into the risks and rewards of sharing tales of diversity with one another through video. Finally, attendees will be given a preview of the newly-installed One Button … [Read more...]
Leadership Conference Engages We Listen
This week the Penn State Summer Leadership Conference, an annual Student Affairs event, engaged We Listen to provide authentic storytelling and listening workshops for student leaders from across the commonwealth. The three-day conference was held at the Altoona campus and featured a variety of skill development opportunities for students around leadership, citizenship, and networking. Through the We Listen workshop more than thirty returning students to the conference learned about the importance of telling authentic stories and the power of listening, and recorded their own stories about … [Read more...]