Group etiquette

[Julian Treasure]

Dear all,

Some thoughts on the running of this group...

Please, no off-topic posts, and no personal or corporate promotion
unless it's bringing real value to the group and its topic. So for
example a seminar or book on listening skills would be ok to bring to
the group's attention, but not a generic personal growth product.

No personal attacks please: an important part of listening is being
aware of emotional reactions and processing them with curiosity
("That's interesting" is a wonderful first response to anything
negative that we do or feel), instead of responding aggressively.

Generosity and involvement are the words I'd like to suggest we all
focus on. Please do share, and please don't hold back. All ideas are
acceptable for consideration here, no matter how 'scientific' in the
(mistaken) sense that most people use that word, ie in some way
proven. Of course, real science is all about positing ideas and then
trying to disprove them, with the current front runner (the 'truth')
being recognised as really just the most robust currently un-disproved
explanation. So here I suggest anything goes, though of course that
includes respectful disproofs as well as imaginative hypotheses.

Please recruit others if you meet them. I would love to see this group
become a real nexus, and I am open to other collaboration forums that
might work better (eg with file storage, elegant handling of links,
etc). If we find a good one we can always migrate en masse.

Please try to reply to messages within a topic. I can't find a way to
merge topics, so if you start a new one that's the same as an existing
one we will end up with a lot of confusion. I will post some seed
topics to act as folders. Please feel free to do the same.

Most of all, join in and enjoy the listening!

all the best

Julian