Listening Before Naming
Listening Before Naming
Clinical and everyday attention often rushes toward naming. Yet a name can organise perception so strongly that subtler relationships disappear.
The discipline of delay
To wait is not to abandon interpretation. It is to let timing, context, contradiction, and change become visible before the observer settles on a conclusion.
A body in relationship
Posture, voice, appetite, temperature, sleep, movement, and mood belong to one unfolding situation. Reading the body begins by resisting the urge to isolate them.