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Diane Cline
Listening in on DC
DC is a great place for sound-hearing. I didn't say sight-seeing because I use other orifices to take in the city. I've heard incredible concerts, listened to remarkable speeches, heard conversations you won't hear elsewhere, and enjoyed eavesdropping on all of you. And I do mean all -- I worked at the NSA for four years, and have honed my listening skills to such an extent that I can hear a tree fall in Rock Creek Park even when no one is around. I'm a cellist with several community orchestras. And my day job is being a graphic recorder or Public Listener. I make murals during meetings, like flip-charts on steroids, that capture the conversations and make them visible. Deep engaged listening with full attention is the way our country will move forward. As part of the whole, each of us is incomplete without listening to each other. Put another way, when we truly hear each other we become whole.
About Diane Cline:
Diane H. Cline, Ph.D. is the President of Over The Horizon Consulting, LLC, based in Chevy Chase that provides Graphic Recording for community meetings, conferences, keynotes, and retreats. Her practice is based on strategic visioning and deep symphonic listening. Diane Cline holds a B.A. in Classics from Stanford University and a M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton University's Department of Art and Archaeology. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to work on her dissertation in Greece, where she lived for three years as a member of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, and she has excavated in Israel, Greece, and Cyprus. She taught Greek and Roman History and Archaeology for 13 years, winning tenure in the History Department at California State University Fresno, and then in the Classics Department at the University of Cincinnati. Diane has won many awards include NEH grants and Teacher of the Year (University of Cincinnati 1999), authored numerous articles and several books. She has been a popular presenter for Smithsonian Associates and leads tours of Greece and Italy. Her years at the NSA 2003-2008 were a voyage into the world of the Ugly, and she is relieved and pleased to be back in the world of the Beautiful. She is married and raising three kids, is a concert cellist, and has multiple deep interests, including continuous learning, aesthetics, sense perception, collective wisdom, imagination, flow, spirituality, renewal, and reinvention. She is fascinated with the nexus between creativity and business, as well as the role of dialogue in renewing civic participation. She lives the life she has always wanted.
