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Kurt Weibers
Apr 21, 2004
Hello,
I'm looking forward to meeting everyone this week. My name is Kurt Weibers and I'm an Identity Designer, I run my own ID consulting firm called Global Point Strategies. A big part of my business is doing introductory seminars to people who may have a need for identity design. Currently I offer four seminars on the subjects of Identity Design, Creativity, Listening and Time Management. I've come to be known as a motivational speaker, because people have found my intro seminars quite motivating.
Trebor has suggested that I do my listening seminar, as listening is a big part of collaborating. The seminar is called GROOVE LISTENING and in it I teach people how to listen and participate in speech grooves. This technique developed out of my work as a professional identity designer and my work with international corporations such as: Corning, Fidelity Investments, Bank of America, TItleist etc. (BTW is there anyone else who works for a living attending this seminar?)
This seminar will involve audience participation in basic groove listening exercises (Ear Calisthenics, Shaking, Stepping, Clapping etc.) In the end participants will be much more skilled at listening to HOW people speak rather than what they are saying.
I have posted my paper on the art of Relational Aesthetics called: "Subverting Subjectivity" on the "reading list" of the WIKI and at:
http://www.art.buffalo.edu:16080/studios/oneil/stuff/port1/docs/Subv_Sub.pdf
My website previews the Groove Listening seminar in the "Seminars" section:
http://www.globalpointstrategies.com/
_Kurt
Description:
GROOVE LISTENING
Saturday, April 24, 2004 2:30–3:30PM
Free Self-Improvement Workshop by Kurt Weibers of Global Point Strategies
Part of the conference: networks, art, & collaboration
Location: NSC 205 (Natural Science Complex, Room 205)
SUNY at Buffalo, North Campus
GROOVE LISTENING
A workshop with Kurt Weibers (www.globalpointstrategies.com)
Summary of Workshop:
Nicolas Bourriaud’s “relational aesthetics” filtered through Kurt Weibers’ career as an organizational behaviorist, identity designer and motivational speaker. Weibers interviewed hundreds of workers at corporations around the world, and found, in the gaps of what they were saying, a collaborative identity, a pattern of transmission, a temporal formalism, a relational aesthetic.
The result of this research is Groove Listening; a radical new listening technique that focuses the listener in on how the speaker is communicating. By “grooving” with each other we collaboratively produce the art of dialogue. In this landmark seminar, Weibers will teach step-by-step methods of Groove Listening, beginning with basic instruction on simple ear calisthenics, and followed by the categorization of levels of Pattern, Rhythm and Groove, real-world case studies and a series of audience participation drills that help users identify simple grooves and develop basic percussive listening skills.
I'm looking forward to meeting everyone this week. My name is Kurt Weibers and I'm an Identity Designer, I run my own ID consulting firm called Global Point Strategies. A big part of my business is doing introductory seminars to people who may have a need for identity design. Currently I offer four seminars on the subjects of Identity Design, Creativity, Listening and Time Management. I've come to be known as a motivational speaker, because people have found my intro seminars quite motivating.
Trebor has suggested that I do my listening seminar, as listening is a big part of collaborating. The seminar is called GROOVE LISTENING and in it I teach people how to listen and participate in speech grooves. This technique developed out of my work as a professional identity designer and my work with international corporations such as: Corning, Fidelity Investments, Bank of America, TItleist etc. (BTW is there anyone else who works for a living attending this seminar?)
This seminar will involve audience participation in basic groove listening exercises (Ear Calisthenics, Shaking, Stepping, Clapping etc.) In the end participants will be much more skilled at listening to HOW people speak rather than what they are saying.
I have posted my paper on the art of Relational Aesthetics called: "Subverting Subjectivity" on the "reading list" of the WIKI and at:
http://www.art.buffalo.edu:16080/studios/oneil/stuff/port1/docs/Subv_Sub.pdf
My website previews the Groove Listening seminar in the "Seminars" section:
http://www.globalpointstrategies.com/
_Kurt
Description:
GROOVE LISTENING
Saturday, April 24, 2004 2:30–3:30PM
Free Self-Improvement Workshop by Kurt Weibers of Global Point Strategies
Part of the conference: networks, art, & collaboration
Location: NSC 205 (Natural Science Complex, Room 205)
SUNY at Buffalo, North Campus
GROOVE LISTENING
A workshop with Kurt Weibers (www.globalpointstrategies.com)
Summary of Workshop:
Nicolas Bourriaud’s “relational aesthetics” filtered through Kurt Weibers’ career as an organizational behaviorist, identity designer and motivational speaker. Weibers interviewed hundreds of workers at corporations around the world, and found, in the gaps of what they were saying, a collaborative identity, a pattern of transmission, a temporal formalism, a relational aesthetic.
The result of this research is Groove Listening; a radical new listening technique that focuses the listener in on how the speaker is communicating. By “grooving” with each other we collaboratively produce the art of dialogue. In this landmark seminar, Weibers will teach step-by-step methods of Groove Listening, beginning with basic instruction on simple ear calisthenics, and followed by the categorization of levels of Pattern, Rhythm and Groove, real-world case studies and a series of audience participation drills that help users identify simple grooves and develop basic percussive listening skills.
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