Deep Listening is a beautiful guide on connection. Kasriel breaks down what makes effective listening and showcases how deep listening fosters connection and understanding. The book is filled with stories from people sharing how deep listening has impacted them and it is an inspiring book.

Distracted by our own agenda, we so often hear without understanding, impatiently waiting for our turn to speak. In this exploration of transformational listening, Kasriel shows how shifting from surface-level exchanges to Deep Listening can enrich our relationships as friends, parents, and partners, enhance our effectiveness as leaders, and strengthen the fabric of our communities.

This book is very eye opening. I feel as though it made me work on mindfulness of others, while also being mindful of myself. The quote that hooked me from the beginning was “We fixate on trying to explain ourselves more loudly, more often, more insistently. But by concentrating solely on speaking, we’re missing the point.”

If you would like to improve your communication in multiple areas of your life and grow, this is your next read. Let’s all be better, together.

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.