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In preface: experiments in listening, Eve confides the anxiety she experienced summarising her motivations for developing this project. She wonders aloud whether the sensation “…might be less an invidualised problem, or pathology, and more a response to the task itself, and the space, both beautiful and treacherous, that speaking truth to power opens out to us.” “Because the way we speak about distress matters,” she explains, describing how clinical decision-making about insight and mental capacity can lead to coercion, restraint and neglect, especially for racialised and minoritised people.
Eve recounts her original proposal to use collective listening as a means of revealing the insights of people receiving and providing mental healthcare. She describes some of the challenges she’s encountered leading the project over three years, during a global pandemic, and shares some of the questions that have occupied her mind, “What would happen if we created a listening space, together, to explore a multiplicity of subjective interpretations of insight?