I've used this simple story — which of course borrows the very general framework of P.D. Eastman's children's classic Are You My Mother? – with students and clients over the past twenty-five years as a way to start a conversation about one of the consistent experiences that I have with human beings. This edition contains an extended essay at the back that delves deeper into the nature of Listening as a state of Being.

I've used this simple story — which of course borrows the very general framework of P.D. Eastman's children's classic Are You My Mother? – with students and clients over the past twenty-five years as a way to start a conversation about one of the consistent experiences that I have with human beings. This edition contains an extended essay at the back that delves deeper into the nature of Listening as a state of Being. This book is for anyone who feels lost or unsure of their place. It provides no answers but it points to what, in my experience in working with thousands of students and clients (and in my own development of Self), is the sole prerequisite to generating your own answer about who you are and where you belong. The book is also very much intended for educators, parents, or anyone else who has taken on the commitment to develop other human beings - and is an invitation for them to find places to stop being "helpful" and instead take on a very different role in supporting the development of others.

Since the early age of 13, a.m. bhatt has been engaged with the question: how do human beings find a way to find meaning, be happy, and create wholly new things - even in the face of the most extreme hardship and suffering. As an undocumented immigrant to the US at the age of 7, and with a background of deep poverty, the question was not an academic one. But it is one that led to a deep exploration of the global traditions and practices that have invited and allowed humans to be more human, and more humane. And it led to a professional life grounded in the awareness that all there ever is to work on is Relationship, and all there ever is to work with is Listening. a.m. bhatt is Founder of DAE, an educational non-profit (myDAE.org), and U of Next (UofNext.com) , an Advisory firm that has been a long-term developmental partner with senior executives in in Global 500 firms for the past 25 years. He is also the Academic Director and, with the late Mel Toomey, designer of the MAOL, a Master degree program grounded in the premise that the work of Leadership is an art form and must be engaged with not as a predictable training grounded in best-practice, but as an emergent, one-time expression unique to this individual at this time. He has served for the past 20 years as Practitioner-in-Residence in the Graduate Psychology program at UNH and has been on faculty at the Chicago Theological Seminary. He is also a stage actor and published photographer.