The Observer Effect

The Observer Effect

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The Observer Effect episodes

  • Episode 5: My Easy Yoke—Sevilla, Where Jesus Stands Perfectly Still
    It's Holy Week, Semana Santa, in Sevilla. Everyone is celebrating by walking through the streets. We set out to find Jesus and ask him why ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician, Dana Boulé. Check out our website at sephvoigts.squarespace.com/theobservereffect to see more. "Ask and the answer will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you." —Jesus
    24 min
  • Episode 4: Jaw of Gold—Tunisia, Where Faustino Met Stares
    Faustino does not like Tunisia. We asked him why ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician who provided our opening and closing, Dana Boulé. Check out www.kiva.org and our website sephvoigts.squarespace.com/theobservereffect. "In fact, just as there is an art of storytelling, strictly codified through a thousand trials and errors, so there is also an art of listening, equally ancient and noble, but as far as I know, it has never been given any norm." —Primo Levi
    24 min
  • Episode 4: Jaw of Gold—Tunisia, Where Faustino Met Stares
    Faustino does not like Tunisia. We asked him why ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician who provided our opening and closing, Dana Boulé. Check out www.kiva.org and our website sephvoigts.squarespace.com/theobservereffect. "In fact, just as there is an art of storytelling, strictly codified through a thousand trials and errors, so there is also an art of listening, equally ancient and noble, but as far as I know, it has never been given any norm." —Primo Levi
    24 min
  • Episode 4: Jaw of Gold—Tunisia, Where Faustino Met Stares
    Faustino does not like Tunisia. We asked him why ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician who provided our opening and closing, Dana Boulé. Check out www.kiva.org and our website sephvoigts.squarespace.com/theobservereffect. "In fact, just as there is an art of storytelling, strictly codified through a thousand trials and errors, so there is also an art of listening, equally ancient and noble, but as far as I know, it has never been given any norm." —Primo Levi
    24 min
  • Episode 3: The Art of Listening—Liverpool, Where Ophirah Has Made Not One But Two Pilgrimages
    Whether travel stories spring from joy or sorrow, result in change or status quo, they always sound fascinating ... Ophirah has twice gone to England to see her heroes' homes. We asked her why ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician who provided our opening and closing, Dana Boulé. Visit http://www.torchcoffee.com. "If I let myself really understand another person, I might be changed by that understanding." —Carl Rogers
    32 min
  • Episode 3: The Art of Listening—Liverpool, Where Ophirah Has Made Not One But Two Pilgrimages
    Whether travel stories spring from joy or sorrow, result in change or status quo, they always sound fascinating ... Ophirah has twice gone to England to see her heroes' homes. We asked her why ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician who provided our opening and closing, Dana Boulé. Visit http://www.torchcoffee.com. "If I let myself really understand another person, I might be changed by that understanding." —Carl Rogers
    32 min
  • Episode 3: The Art of Listening—Liverpool, Where Ophirah Has Made Not One But Two Pilgrimages
    Whether travel stories spring from joy or sorrow, result in change or status quo, they always sound fascinating ... Ophirah has twice gone to England to see her heroes' homes. We asked her why ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician who provided our opening and closing, Dana Boulé. Visit http://www.torchcoffee.com. "If I let myself really understand another person, I might be changed by that understanding." —Carl Rogers
    32 min
  • Episode 2: Passing by the Door of Night—America, Where Moonif Learned to Smile
    Whether travel stories spring from joy or sorrow, result in change or status quo, they always teach us something ... Moonif found it easier to smile than to not when he moved to America. We asked him why ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician who provided our opening and closing, Dana Boulé. Check out World Relief→ "Hospitality is always an act that benefits the host even more than the guest." —Parker Palmer
    28 min
  • Episode 2: Passing by the Door of Night—America, Where Moonif Learned to Smile
    Whether travel stories spring from joy or sorrow, result in change or status quo, they always teach us something ... Moonif found it easier to smile than to not when he moved to America. We asked him why ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician who provided our opening and closing, Dana Boulé. Check out World Relief→ "Hospitality is always an act that benefits the host even more than the guest." —Parker Palmer
    28 min
  • Episode 2: Passing by the Door of Night—America, Where Moonif Learned to Smile
    Whether travel stories spring from joy or sorrow, result in change or status quo, they always teach us something ... Moonif found it easier to smile than to not when he moved to America. We asked him why ... and hope listening like this evaporates borders. Special thanks to the musician who provided our opening and closing, Dana Boulé. Check out World Relief→ "Hospitality is always an act that benefits the host even more than the guest." —Parker Palmer
    28 min

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These are strangers' travel stories. Each time I ask how travel has changed them and hope listening like this evaporates borders.