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 Love Listens: How To Listen To Those We Love 

With Dr. Bill Strom

How well do those close to you really know your heart? How well do you know theirs? In Love Listens Bill Strom promotes the idea that we come to know each other through active empathetic listening and that by listening well we deepen our relationships. Drawing on Telecare's Listen Up! curriculum, this presentation is crafted for people seeking to improve their listening skills as a means to show love with friends and relatives. 


Event Speaker and Facilitator: Bill Strom (B.A. Wheaton College, M.A. Northern Illinois University, Ph.D. University of Iowa) is professor of media and communication at Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia, Canada where he teaches relational and leadership communication. His research focuses on virtue and covenant in close relationships and is published in regional, national, and international journals. His faith perspective textbook, More Than Talk: A Covenantal Approach to Everyday Communication (5th ed., 2018, Kendall/Hunt Publishing) and The Relationship Project: Moving from ‘You and Me’ to ‘We’ (The Foundry Publishing, 2014) continue these themes. In 2012 Bill joined Telecare where he has volunteered on the lines, helped train volunteers, and participated on its board. In 2021 he became executive director. 

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