https://listencloselyfilm.com/home daily 1.0 2020-09-15 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf55702f05e6c0001247490/t/5cf7ed60994742000105b7fd/1570557290888/IMG_8677.JPG Home - Meet our Production Team https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf55702f05e6c0001247490/t/5cf7ef90c545200001c6f049/1572064345705/IMG_2638.jpg Home - Meet our Experts https://listencloselyfilm.com/blog daily 0.75 2020-01-31 https://listencloselyfilm.com/blog/scenes-from-shooting-6py3l monthly 0.5 2020-01-31 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf55702f05e6c0001247490/t/5d13c1f92f91ef0001d20784/1561575627994/blog%2Bphoto.jpg Blog - Copy of Scenes from Shooting (delete before linking blog) https://listencloselyfilm.com/blog/scenes-from-shooting monthly 0.5 2020-01-31 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf55702f05e6c0001247490/t/5d13c0c252113b0001b38651/1561575929799/blog%2Bphoto.jpg Blog - Scenes from Filming (delete before linking blog) https://listencloselyfilm.com/listen-closely-team daily 0.75 2020-01-15 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf55702f05e6c0001247490/t/5cf586ee4d66f900012867a1/1559594742944/Alana_2014_4%2Bcopy.jpg The Production Team - Alana Sheeren Producer/ Director Listening is one of Alana Sheeren's superpowers. A natural listener, in her early life she gravitated to work where listening was an essential component – actor, bartender, Pilates instructor. In her 30's she honed her skills, earning a Masters Degree in clinical and community psychology from Antioch University, Los Angeles. Her passion for listening grew exponentially with the birth of her daughter and she worked with new parents to help them understand, respect and listen to their children from birth. Alana understands listening from the inside out, through personal experiences that required immense compassion, forgiveness and the willingness to listen through grief and pain, as well as through her work with her coaching clients. She hosted a year-long interview series on her website about grief and transformation and was invited to host an interview based podcast for Web Talk Radio, called Create Your Magical Life. Her knowledge of and passion for listening, her curiosity and excellent interviewing skills make her uniquely suited to bring this film to life. She also brings her experience in multiple performing arts and a lifelong passion for learning to the table. As someone who listens with her whole being, Alana is committed to bringing the topic to a bigger stage. She believes in the power of listening to change lives, organizations and the world. She knows this film is part of that change https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf55702f05e6c0001247490/t/5db27c7bfbfeff6dd56068d2/1571978382371/SJSB%2Bpic.jpg The Production Team - Sarah Jane Burton Associate Producer Sarah Jane Burton has spent a lifetime in the arts. After touring with the Chicago Opera Ballet Company and Ruth Page’s International Ballet Company across the U.S.A., SJ was chosen by famed choreographer Agnes de Mille for the role of “Jeannie” in Brigadoon at New York City Center. Following that she performed many principle parts in NY City and environs, such as “Liat” in South Pacific at the Jones Beach outdoor amphitheater (produced and conducted by Guy Lombardo), and “Dancing Laurey” in Oklahoma! at PaperMill Playhouse. Following her Canadian husband to Guelph, Ontario, after 3 years in West Africa, Sarah Jane, with her B.A. & M.A. in Dance, developed and taught college/university courses in movement and dance for actors, musicians, visual artists, and dancers at York University, University of Toronto Faculty of Music, George Brown College, Sheridan College Musical Theatre program, and movement for Orff music educators at the University of Manitoba, Wilfred Laurier University, and the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. She has choreographed, directed or was movement coach for over 50 professional productions including Canadian Premieres, Musicals, Operas, Plays, Dance Works, Television Specials, Television Series, and Environmental productions, in Canada, USA, France & Ghana. Shortly after retiring from teaching in 2014, Sarah Jane founded Park’n Dance, providing dance classes to seniors with Parkinson’s Disease. In 2018 she produced and was featured in the award winning documentary short film, “Moving Journeys”, about a collaboration between professional dancers and seniors with Parkinson’s, culminating in a community performance. Sarah Jane has spent a lifetime listening to words, music and the language of the body and she is thrilled to be lending her creativity and expertise to the Listen Closely project. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf55702f05e6c0001247490/t/5cf585a79dee2c000161b7a8/1559594420050/john%2Bphaneuf%2Bpic.jpg The Production Team - John Phaneuf Director of Photography John Phaneuf is an accomplished and sought-after filmmaker and editor residing in Ojai, CA. He promotes conscious companies and organizations on a mission to create a more sustainable, healthy, and just world. He has done extensive work with Patagonia, The Center for Mind Body Medicine, spiritual teacher and author Ram Dass, and countless local businesses and international charities. He is known for his dedicated passion, creative vision, and high skill level. https://listencloselyfilm.com/listen-closely-trailer daily 0.75 2019-09-16 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf55702f05e6c0001247490/t/5cf81dd182c19d00015b587a/1559764466499/Camera%2BImage%2Bwith%2Bfilter.jpg Trailer https://listencloselyfilm.com/our-message daily 0.75 2019-09-20 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf55702f05e6c0001247490/t/5d252c527252ab0001efdbd7/1562717300500/Depositphotos_12299544_xl-2015.jpg Our Message https://listencloselyfilm.com/our-listen-closely-experts daily 0.75 2019-06-21 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf55702f05e6c0001247490/t/5cf92cfeb84176000108fb05/1559833900065/P1040110.png Our Experts Douglas E. Noll Douglas E. Noll, J.D., M.A. specializes in helping people solve difficult, complex, and intractable problems. As a lawyer turned peacemaker, Doug has been voted as one of the Best Lawyers in America since 2005, by US News & World Report and has been recognized since 2006 as a Northern California Super Lawyer. He is listed in the Who's Who of International Commercial Mediators. Read more… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf55702f05e6c0001247490/t/5cf92cc27e15210001d88d73/1560183528392/Desiree+Adaway.png Our Experts Desiree Adaway Desiree Adaway is a seasoned nonprofit consultant and facilitator, and founder of The Adaway Group. She is known by staff, senior leadership, peers, and partners as being great at open, honest, and productive conversations. She is not afraid of addressing anything that gets in the way of great work. Her style is positive, approachable, engaging, service-oriented and audience-centered. Read more… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf55702f05e6c0001247490/t/5cf92e7aba423d000135d260/1559834247940/ram_dass_2017_dassi_portrait_300dpi-e1509377655280-1024x683.png Our Experts Ram Dass Ram Dass first went to India in 1967. He was still Dr. Richard Alpert, a prominent Harvard psychologist and psychedelic pioneer with Dr. Timothy Leary. He continued his psychedelic research until that fateful Eastern trip in 1967, when he traveled to India. In India, he met his guru, Neem Karoli Baba, affectionately known as Maharajji, who gave Ram Dass his name, which means "servant of God." Everything changed then – his intense dharmic life started, and he became a pivotal influence on a culture that has reverberated with the words "Be Here Now" ever since. Read more… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf55702f05e6c0001247490/t/5cf92eece4f6a40001e38c0e/1560440162648/Vagdevi+Meunier.png Our Experts Vagdevi Meunier Vagdevi Meunier, PsyD, is a licensed psychologist and Clinical Assistant Professor at The University of Texas in Austin, Texas. She has a private clinical and consulting practice in Austin where she specializes in relationship therapy, intensives, and retreats, professional training and supervision, and organizational consultation. Read more… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf55702f05e6c0001247490/t/5cf92d58d58d130001fca7d1/1560439242872/GayandKathlynHendricks.png Our Experts Gay Hendricks and Kathlyn Hendricks Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks have been pioneers in the fields of body intelligence and relationship transformation for more than forty years. They've mastered ways to translate powerful concepts and life skills into experiential processes where people can discover their own body intelligence and easily integrate life-changing skills. Read more… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf55702f05e6c0001247490/t/5cf92db8a2d6240001d86a5f/1559834060022/Paloma+Espino.png Our Experts Paloma Espino Paloma Espino has been a caregiver ever since she can remember. She has been involved in end of life care at Sarah House Santa Barbara for the last 15 years absorbing the many lessons that are left behind by those that come to live their final days at the hospice. End of life care is her passion. She continues to be a student of life and hopes to remain serving Sarah House for many years to come. 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Kennedy School of Government, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the U.S. Army War College Strategic Implementation Seminar in Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania. Read more… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf55702f05e6c0001247490/t/5cf92d74898e3e00015d13f0/1560440338192/David+pic.png Our Experts David Gau David Gau is an Operating Partner at Pritzker Group Private Capital, leading the firm's activities in the Manufactured Products sector. David has a history of building and operating multi-national organizations, most recently as chief executive officer of Intersystems, a manufacturer of material handling equipment for agricultural and industrial applications. 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Their work has been featured in over 40 national publications including the Huffington Post, The Atlantic, Fast Company, and The Big Think, as well as in over 30 international publications across 15 languages. Read more… https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf55702f05e6c0001247490/t/5cf92ce68bc0c60001a8970f/1560439563937/Gaye+Theresa+Johnson.png Our Experts Gaye Theresa Johnson Gaye Theresa Johnson is Associate Professor of African American Studies and Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles. She writes and teaches on race, cultural politics, and freedom struggles. Her first book, published with University of California Press in 2013, is Spaces of Conflict, Sounds of Solidarity: Music, Race, and Spatial Entitlement, and is a history of social and spatial struggles in Los Angeles' Black and Brown communities. 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He is also the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute which focuses on the development of mindsight, which teaches insight, empathy, and integration in individuals, families and communities. Read more... https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5cf55702f05e6c0001247490/t/5cf9402eda0a14000143d9ff/1560112888719/marcel+brunel.png Our Experts Marcel Brunel A former US Army Airborne Ranger, Marcel Brunel has spent the last 21 years working with organizations to help them improve leadership, communication and performance. Marcel works closely with many state and local governments and Fortune 500 companies such as PwC, Southwest Airlines, Dell Inc., Yum, Elmer's, and Baylor Healthcare, helping them link performance development to optimal results in an emotion economy. 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