Dr. Randall Alifano “Listening in the Raw: Coming Home to Receptivity”

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Have you ever felt yourself tightening up with protective energy when someone shared a difficult experience?

Did you notice tension building up inside when you weren’t quite sure what your client needed?

Have you pretended to listen while distracted by your own anxious thoughts?
We all have.
All of us have habituated patterns, filters, and intentions (even good ones) that can inhibit listening with presence, empathic surrender, and curiosity.
About Listening in the Raw
Randall's book, Listening in the Raw: Coming Home to Receptivity, offers practical guidance on what we need to be conscious of, let go of, and drop into to embrace listening as a spiritual practice. And you’ve never heard it discussed quite like this before.
Imagine having the ability to feel and experience what the speaker is saying, feeling, and longing for, even under their narrative.

Imagine feeling comfortable sitting in the unknown—without rushing to conclusions or trying to help prematurely, but rather embracing the unknown as the fertile ground that promises new insights and understandings.
When Listening in the Raw, you empty yourself of intentions except to listen, that is:
1. being free to follow your curiosity
2. asking questions until you have a felt experience of what the speaker is saying,
3. and then, with humility, asking if what you understand resonates with the speaker.
This approach not only transforms the speaker but equally the listener as their perspective is quite literally expanded beyond their prior limiting filters. We tend to think that listening is in the service of the speaker. But Listening in the Raw teaches that listening as a meditation is equally beneficial to the listener. It expands our sense of Self, and alters the discourse from the speaker needing healing and the listener being that healer to a quality of connection that ends isolation.

BIOS:

Dr. Randall Alifano, CLN '97, has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is an Ordained Minister with over 40 years of integrating psychology and spirituality in his private practice. He has worked with a diverse group of people at various stages of their lives, listening to their dreams and aspirations, their traumas and confusions, and their desire to live life more attuned to their own inner wisdom. And he has loved doing it his entire career.
Over the decades, he has studied numerous theories and methodologies—both psychological and spiritual—and they have all filtered down to inform who he is and how he works.

Davida Taurek, LPCC, is the founder and clinical director of Courageous Counseling Center, a therapeutic collective offering in person and online therapy for individuals and couples. She served as associate faculty for the Master of Science Counseling Program at Prescott College, directing the Somatic Emphasis. Davida’s background includes diverse studies in the creative arts, body-centered therapies, and midwifery.
She has taught at Esalen Institute and 1440 Multiversity, and continues to work for Tony Robbins leading 5Rhythms movement meditation and embodiment practices at Unleash the Power Within and Life Mastery events.

Barbara Borden, drummer, performer, composer and teacher, is a veteran of the San Francisco and women’s music scene. One of Borden’s greatest accomplishments is being the subject of the documentary film, Barbara Borden: Keeper of the Beat.
She facilitates drum circles and councils, workshops/clinics, retreats around the country; teaches private and group lessons in drumkit, West African djembe and ceremonial drumming.

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Host or Publisher California Institute of Integral Studies