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Evening Talks

A Series of 4 Talks, Monday Evenings

Special Series

The diverse speakers in this series bring common gifts to share with us as we deal with the challenges of our lives and the uncertainties about the future. Wisdom, intelligence and especially a lively and deep contemplative perspective. They become guides and inspiration for the journey we must follow through the year.

02 May 2022

'A Contemplative Approach to Communication' - Jenny Scott

Honest dialogue can bring about profound change.

Yet the world so often communicates in a way that deliberately polarises and sets up confrontation. It frames problems like climate change as zero sum games; you win so I must lose. The result at best is inertia, at worst, conflict.

But dialogue is different and powerful. It fosters community and understanding between participants, it seeks truth, not winners and losers, it is a joint search that embodies values in its very form.

In this talk Jenny Scott will explore how deep listening between ‘unlikely allies’ can unlock profound change. Drawing on her work with North Star Transition, an organisation seeking solutions to climate change and biodiversity loss, Jenny will show how dialogue between farmers, health care professionals, water companies, financial institutions, schools and others is changing lives.

Jenny Scott is an economist who has spent 30 years in the business of communications. First as a journalist for Reuters and BBC television and radio news, then as the Communications Director for the Bank of England. Most recently, Jenny has co-founded an advisory firm, Apella, that helps organisations put purpose at the heart of what they do, to drive social change. Jenny recently completed a two year part time post graduate course in theology.

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