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Vuslat (𝘷𝘰𝘰𝘴-𝘭𝘢𝘩𝘵): reunion; the end of separation.

The Vuslat Foundation takes its name from our founder, Vuslat Doğan, and from a word whose meaning reaches beyond easy translation. Vuslat has its origins in Arabic, derived from wuṣla (وُصْلَة)—connection, joining, union. It entered Turkish (and Ottoman Turkish) to describe a profound meeting, a reunion.

In Sufi tradition, 𝘷𝘶𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵 names a homecoming: the soul’s return after a long separation, a reunion with what we belong to. And this is the ground beneath our work. 𝐆𝐞𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 is not simply “better communication.” It is a practice of reception, of returning to one another with fewer defenses, fewer assumptions, and more willingness to be changed by what we hear.

After twenty editions, our newsletter has come full circle. Its new name, 𝐕𝐔𝐒𝐋𝐀𝐓 — 𝐀 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐨𝐧 𝐑𝐞𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐨𝐧, returns to the simplest truth behind this foundation: reunion through listening.

Read the full Issue 21 via the link in our stories.

#Vuslat #GenerousListening #VuslatFoundation by @generouslistening

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A rich, value-driven process that promotes a more profound and holistic form of communication and connection. 👂🏻✨

Join the movement.

Vuslat Foundation is a global initiative that champions the profound impact of generous listening as the vital thread in all our connections.

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The Generous Listening Emotional Support Groups, launched in response to the aftermath of the 2023 earthquake, provide a structured space where women affected by trauma can share their experiences, find connection, and begin their healing journey.

Through the power of generous listening, these groups foster empathy, understanding, and resilience—transforming isolation into belonging and strengthening community bonds. By prioritizing listening as a tool for recovery, we create an environment where trauma is acknowledged, voices are heard, and healing becomes possible.

#GenerousListening #VuslatFoundation #HealingThroughListening #EmotionalSupport #CommunityHealing by @generouslistening

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Change does not always arrive loudly. 🌱

A bird becomes less common. Summers lengthen. A familiar tree no longer flowers at the same time. The night grows brighter and quieter in ways we struggle to name.

Attention is one way of keeping a record.
What has the living world around you been losing slowly enough to escape notice?

#PauseAndPonder #GenerousListening #VuslatFoundation by @generouslistening

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There is a moment in conversation when the rehearsed answer falls away.

Anna Deavere Smith describes listening for that shift: the point at which someone stops simply responding and begins to speak from somewhere more alive, more particular, more fully their own.

Perhaps generous listening begins there too, in staying long enough for the first answer to give way to something deeper.

#VoicesOnListening #GenerousListening #AnnaDeavereSmith #VuslatFoundation by @generouslistening

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Every conversation can teach us something.
If we listen long enough to learn.

#GenerousListening #VuslatFoundation by @generouslistening

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🧩 Generous Listening Exercise: 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘴.

Teams rarely say everything in the meeting itself.

Concerns often arrive later, in a one-to-one conversation, a follow-up message, or once the consequences have become difficult to ignore.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘥𝘰𝘳 𝘛𝘦𝘴𝘵 asks leaders and managers to notice how much of a team’s honest thinking reaches the formal room, and how much has to find another route.

The aim is not to monitor informal conversation. It is to examine the conditions leaders create.
• Which questions invite candour?
• Which responses close it down?
• What does the team already know but hesitate to say in front of those making the decision?

For one week, notice what reaches you after the meeting. Then ask what might have made it possible to say earlier.

#GenerousListening #WorkplaceListening #Leadership #ListeningCulture #VuslatFoundation by @generouslistening

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📰 The Listening Edit
Noteworthy writing on listening, attention and human connection.

In a recent essay for the @financialtimes, columnist Enuma Okoro begins with her own unease after turning to a chatbot with a personal problem, then widens the question through loneliness, friendship, art and solitude.
One idea stays with us: loneliness is not always about being alone. It can also be the feeling of being with others and still not feeling heard.

Okoro offers a simple counterpoint: regular, undistracted conversation. No multitasking. No optimisation. Just showing up for one another.

As technology becomes increasingly available to listen, what forms of human attention do we want to protect?
Enuma Okoro, “Why are we not talking to one another?”, Financial Times, June 2026.

#TheListeningEdit #GenerousListening #HumanConnection #VuslatFoundation by @generouslistening

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The body reacts before the mind explains. A tightening in the chest, a held breath, a pull toward something or away from it. 💭

By the time we have words for what we feel, we have often already tidied it, softened it, argued ourselves out of it. The first response is rawer, and usually more honest.

This week, try to catch that first signal before the mind translates it into something more acceptable. Your body may be telling you something you have not let yourself hear.

#WeeklyIntention #GenerousListening #ListeningToSelf #VuslatFoundation by @generouslistening

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#ListeningHumor of the day 💭

Tuning out of a conversation is one thing. Tuning out of your own sentence is a whole new frontier.

Listening to yourself: harder than it sounds.

#GenerousListening #VuslatFoundation by @generouslistening

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What becomes audible when the surrounding noise falls away?

Maya Angelou speaks of quietude as a place in which we might hear something deeper. For some, that may be understood as God. For others, intuition, conscience, wisdom, meaning, or simply a part of ourselves that everyday life makes difficult to hear.

The language may differ. The invitation is remarkably universal: become quiet enough to notice what speaks when everything else stops competing for your attention.

#VoicesOnListening #GenerousListening #MayaAngelou #ListeningToSelf #VuslatFoundation by @generouslistening

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Some disagreements continue long after the facts have been exhausted.

We may still be trying to prove that we were right, that our intentions were good, that the other person misunderstood, or that our pain came first.

The conversation remains active, but listening has stopped.
What might become possible if the need to win gave way, briefly, to the need to understand?

#PauseAndPonder #GenerousListening #VuslatFoundation by @generouslistening

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