Wed, Jun 10
|Virtual Event Via Zoom
Listening in the Raw: with Randall Alifano
What if the most powerful thing you could offer a client wasn’t insight—but true, unfiltered presence? In Listening in the Raw, Randall invites you into a radically receptive way of listening that deepens connection and transforms both therapist and client.
Time & Location
Jun 10, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM PDT
Virtual Event Via Zoom
About the Event
Join us on Wednesday, June 10 from 11:00 AM–12:00 PM (PST) for a live Zoom conversation hosted by the Center for Embodiment Medicine. In this experiential hour, Randall will introduce the practice of Listening in the Raw, offering a fresh and deeply relational approach to presence, receptivity, and therapeutic connection.
Listening in the Raw: Coming Home to Receptivity
Have you ever felt yourself tightening up with protective energy when someone shared a difficult experience?
Did you notice tension building up inside when you weren’t quite sure what your client needed?
Have you pretended to listen while distracted by your own anxious thoughts?
We all have.
All of us have habituated patterns, filters, and intentions (even good ones) that can inhibit listening with presence, empathic surrender, and curiosity.
Randall's book, Listening in the Raw: Coming Home to Receptivity, offers practical guidance on what we need to be conscious of, let go of, and drop into to embrace listening as a spiritual practice. And you’ve never heard it discussed quite like this before. Purchase your copy here.
Imagine having the ability to feel and experience what the speaker is saying, feeling, and longing for, even under their narrative.
Imagine feeling comfortable sitting in the unknown—without rushing to conclusions or trying to help prematurely, but rather embracing the unknown as the fertile ground that promises new insights and understandings.
When Listening in the Raw, you empty yourself of intentions except to listen, that is:
1. being free to follow your curiosity
2. asking questions until you have a felt experience of what the speaker is saying,
3. and then, with humility, asking if what you understand resonates with the speaker.
This approach not only transforms the speaker but equally the listener as their perspective is quite literally expanded beyond their prior limiting filters. We tend to think that listening is in the service of the speaker. But Listening in the Raw teaches that listening as a meditation is equally beneficial to the listener. It expands our sense of Self, and alters the discourse from the speaker needing healing and the listener being that healer to a quality of connection that ends isolation.
Join us for an introduction to Listening in the Raw.
Dr. Randall Alifano has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and is an Ordained Minister with over 40 years of integrating psychology and spirituality in his private practice. He has worked with a diverse group of people at various stages of their lives, listening to their dreams and aspirations, their traumas and confusions, and their desire to live life more attuned to their own inner wisdom. And he has loved doing it his entire career. Over the decades, he has studied numerous theories and methodologies—both psychological and spiritual—and they have all filtered down to inform who he is and how he works.