# The Backstory-S01E08-Elizabeth Parks

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Podcast: [The Backstory Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-backstory-podcast-7733603)
Published: 2026-07-06T21:42:53+00:00
Episode link: https://thebackstory.podbean.com/e/when-listening-is-sacred-inside-the-international-journal-of-listening/
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## Resource

In this episode of The Backstory, Elizabeth Parks, Editor of the International Journal of Listening, joins the team to explore listening as a practice—ethical, interdisciplinary, and transformational. They discuss listening as invitation, the risks and costs listeners face, and how to collect stories in non‑extractive ways. Practical takeaways include setting boundaries, centering reciprocity, asking who benefits, and preparing organizations and staff (like pastors and project leads) to be changed by what they hear. Parks points listeners to the International Journal of Listening and her work for further resources. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethshun-chingparks/ Website: https://www.elizabethsparks.org/

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