Deep Listening: Transform Your Relationships with Family, Friends and Foes – Emily Kasriel (Signed)

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Published on 22nd May 2025

Why do so many conversations leave us feeling unheard and disconnected? In Deep Listening, executive coach, accredited mediator, and journalist Emily Kasriel argues it’s because we’ve forgotten how to truly listen. We’re distracted by our own agenda, hearing without understanding, just waiting for our turn to speak. In this exploration of transformational listening, Emily Kasriel shows how shifting from surface-level hearing to Deep Listening can enrich our relationships, enhance our effectiveness as leaders, and strengthen the fabric of our communities. At a time when divisions are often the source of profound dysfunction and distress, this book provides inspiration and guidance on how we can listen to each other, even when we fiercely disagree.

Drawing on scientific studies, in-the-field research, and powerful stories from legendary listeners that the author has seen in action – including Nelson Mandela, artist Antony Gormley, and Nobel-prize winning writer Wole Soyinka – Kasriel unveils her step-by-step method for Deep Listening, engaged by curiosity and fuelled by empathy. At the heart of the Deep Listening approach is the recognition of the dignity of the other, just for being human, regardless of their beliefs or their past. Deep Listening is enriched by the ideas of a range of theologians, writers, psychologists, neuroscientists, First Nation Canadians, Japanese Buddhist monks and creators such as William Kentridge, Akram Khan and Platon.

At once a practical guide and a heartfelt manifesto, this groundbreaking book will leave us rethinking our approach to listening, and in doing so, transform our relationships from the inside out. Whether readers seek to strengthen personal relationships, improve their performance at work, or foster genuine connections across cultural, political, and generational divides, Deep Listening provides the tools and inspiration to unlock the power of meaningful communication. Beautifully illustrated with the author’s original black ink paintings, Kasriel demonstrates how the simple yet profound act of Deep Listening can transcend mere transactional exchanges to create lasting, transformative connections.