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Non-Colonial Listening: A Treatise on Presence
by Angelos Derlopas
Every act of listening carries a hidden question: whose categories decide what another person’s experience means? Non-Colonial Listening argues that the helping professions — coaching, clinical supervision, mentoring — have inherited a way of listening that answers this question before the session even begins, replacing a practitioner’s own emerging understanding with a supervisor’s borrowed one. The author calls this colonial listening: not malicious, rarely intentional, and for that reason almost invisible — dressed, more often than not, in the language of expertise and care.
Written as a philosophical treatise in three books, the work traces this dynamic to its roots — Gayatri Spivak’s concept of epistemic violence, the cultural inheritance of the Global North’s Protestant-derived professional norms, and the received doctrines (silence signals resistance, naming resolves, the supervisor knows best) that quietly govern most supervisory training. It then turns from diagnosis to practice, developing five powers of non-colonial presence — sustaining silence, perceiving before naming, holding the wish to help, repairing rupture honestly, and Personism, borrowed from poet Frank O’Hara: the shift from speaking about a person to speaking to one. The book closes by asking what supervision is ultimately for, arguing that its deepest achievement is not full understanding of another person, but the discipline of letting them remain — genuinely, respectfully — other.
Dense with original vignettes, a glossary, a comparative table of colonial and non-colonial questions, and a practical self-checklist, Non-Colonial Listening speaks directly to the competency language of EMCC Global and the ICF, while never reducing its argument to technique.
For: supervisors, coaches, mentors, and clinicians working across cultural difference — and anyone who has ever wondered whether their expertise has started listening for them.
Presence over power. Relationship over hierarchy. Wisdom over dominance.
Soon to be released on Amazon.
