Listening well is a life skill that’s not always well cultivated but a critical precursor to understanding, compassion, and empathy. Deep Listening is a very interesting and richly detailed primer on the art of listening well.

Broken out into three parts, I was engaged and entertained even as I learned a thing or two to add to my listening toolbox. This book is filled with stories to balance out the silence and I loved how many of the stories were used to highlight unique challenges to listening deeply. I enjoyed this book and would recommend it to anyone looking to learn more about the power and the art of listening well. I appreciated that in the learning the various facets of listening attentively, each chapter ends with a succinct summary of key concepts, an exercise for practicing the skill you learned, and also prompts and scripts scattered throughout to help a person gain their listening “sea legs.”

I would like to thank William Morrow and NetGalley for the eARC in exchange for my honest review. All thoughts and opinions are my own.

This is a very important message for our times. It is thoughtful and provocative in terms of making someone who hears its message to reflect deeply on their own communication skills. I shall find this very useful in some of my teaching, especially around “Attentive Listening” which is an important theme in Mussar .

This has the potential to be the next best non fiction hit that everyone will talk about. I thought it was compellingly readable and I found myself talking to my husband about some of the chapters!

If you struggle to understand or be understood, Kasriel provides a pathway forward: Deep Listening. The intentionality, clear explanations, and practical examples will give you a way to gain trust and insights from others.

Worth reading if you a team leader, team member, or someone who seeks deeper relationships and friendships. Recommended.