The International Listening Association (ILA), founded in 1979, announces its Call for Participation and Call for Proposals for our 46th annual Convention, held at the University of Maryland and the surrounding Washington, DC, area.

This year's theme is "Listening S.O.N.G.," an acronym that represents listening to the whole of life across four key contexts: Self, Others, Nature, and God/Greater Power.* Listening S.O.N.G. seeks to intentionally highlight the multi-modal ways of listening.

*Disclaimer: A * next to a word indicates a terminological shift for the purposes of the ILA 2025 Convention from the original conceptualization of “Listening to the S.O.N.G. of Life” where S.O.N.G is an acronym for Self, Others, Nature, and Goddess-God-the Divine (Baesler, 2017).