Listen First Project

Dear friends,

I want to thank you for your support of my blog over the years and introduce you to my new non profit initiative, Listen First Project.

My wife and I spent the first half of this year in Uganda with an international relief and development organization. You can read about our spectacular and profound experience here. While on an overnight bus ride between Uganda and Kenya, I wrote a commentary on the desperate need for listening to one another in America and around the world. My thoughts have since been printed in dozens of newspapers across the country with over a million readers.

I wanted to find a way to translate those words into action and make a tangible impact on societal discourse. In August, I launched the non profit Listen First Project to facilitate greater understanding, respect and cooperation by encouraging the timeless but abandoned practice of listening to each other, regardless of politics, religion, race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, education or any other distinction. I believe in the power of listening to transform our discourse and change the world.

Listen First Project has rapidly grown into an active movement with a global leadership team and tremendous promise for effecting transformative change, one conversation at a time. I would love for you to check it out and join me.

Thanks and Happy New Year!

Pearce