The Listening Post, Inc.

History...

The Listening Post, Inc., an interpersonal communication project, was founded on the Auraria Higher Education Center Campus in Denver, Colorado in 1979 by Dr. Mabel F. Barth to meet a need on this university level, all-commuter, urban complex.

There were, or course, the traditional campus counselors, but they were more likely to hear questions regarding curriculum or career options or even sometimes severe emotional problems, but where did students go to 'sound off' without the conversation becoming a matter of school record? -- a non-threatening place where good communications could occur with no strings attached? It didn't appear that there was such a place.

With a keen desire to ameliorate what she felt was an 'inferior caliber living' created by lack of interpersonal communication, Barth designed The Listening Post, using as conceptual building blocks the work of such noted psychologists and sociologists as Erich Fromm, Virginia Satir, Piaget, Erik Erickson and Lawrence Kohlberg.

A rash of high school student suicides in the 1980's prompted a move to younger grades. The Listening Post now serves K-12 youth as well as students, administrators and faculty through the graduate school level.

The Listening Post incorporated in 1989 is a 501(c)(3) non-profit.

An 80-page instructional manual written by the founder has been distributed internationally.

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