AN INDEPENDENT DIALOGUE INITIATIVE • DR. ANINDA SIDHANA • SCOTT DOUGLAS JACOBSEN

Where conversations become common ground.

Turning lived experience into sovereign understanding. An unhurried sanctuary for deep inquiry into the questions that define our collective life: mental peace, human dignity, restorative justice, ethical technology, and the enduring power of listening.

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Curated Fields of Inquiry
Mental Health Human Dignity Peace & Reconciliation Gender & Belonging AI & Humanity
Leadership & Curatorial Direction

From the Creators

Intellectual Rigour • Clinical Depth
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Founder & Creator

Scott Douglas Jacobsen

Independent Canadian Journalist • Publisher, In-Sight Publishing

Scott Douglas Jacobsen is an independent Canadian journalist, interviewer, editor, and publisher. He is the Founder and Publisher of In-Sight Publishing and Editor-in-Chief of In-Sight: Interviews. His extensive body of work engages with human rights, science, culture, public policy, and the ideas shaping contemporary society.

Through The Listening Commons, he creates space for intellectually rigorous, independent, and deeply humane conversations across disciplines, cultures, and worldviews.

“Curiosity before certainty.”
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Co-Creator & Clinical–Editorial Lead

Dr. Aninda Sidhana

Psychiatrist • Psychosexual Medicine • WICCI Council President

Dr. Aninda Sidhana is a psychiatrist and psychosexual-medicine specialist whose work bridges mental health, trauma-informed care, women’s wellbeing, culture, storytelling, and human dignity.

As National President of the WICCI National Psychosocial & Mental Wellness Council and Founder of The Dignity Dialogues™, she works to move mental health beyond clinical walls and into culture, media, and public conversation. Through The Listening Commons, she brings psychiatric insight, lived humanity, and dignity-centred inquiry into dialogue with art, consciousness, and the human condition.

“Listening is not the pause before speaking. It is a form of knowledge, dignity and relationship.”
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Institutional Collaboration

WICCI National Psychosocial & Mental Wellness Council

Led by Dr. Aninda Sidhana, National President

Public Interest Partnership

This collaboration advances responsible public conversations around mental health, psychosocial wellbeing, storytelling, inclusion, dignity, and media ethics. It brings together clinical knowledge, cultural dialogue, and public leadership to encourage narratives that deepen understanding rather than stigma.

Chronological Archive

Recent Conversations

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Episode #11 31:04

Women’s Mental Health Across the Lifespan: Hormones, Work, Menopause & Digital Harm

How does women’s mental health change across the lifespan—from puberty and reproductive years to pregnancy, postpartum life and menopause? And what happens when biology meets work, caregiving, relationships, sexuality and the pressures of an increasingly digital world?In this epi...

Dr. Aninda Sidhana

Psychiatrist · Psychosexual Medicine Specialist

Episode #10 47:04

Aninda Sidhana and Dr. Indu Prakash Singh on Homelessness, Feminism, and Human Dignity

Aninda Sidhana and Dr. Indu Prakash Singh on Homelessness, Feminism, and Human DignityHow do Aninda Sidhana and Dr. Indu Prakash Singh connect homelessness, feminism, mental health, and human dignity in India?Aninda Sidhana is a mental health professional, feminist advocate, ISDR...

Dr. Aninda Sidhana

Psychiatrist · Psychosexual Medicine Specialist

Episode #09 25:29

PRAVER 2.0: The Comeback | 1% Survival & a Second Life

39 hours. 9 days. 1% survival. And somehow, the story continued.This episode of The Listening Commons is especially close to my heart.Praver Awal is not simply our guest. He is a friend—and I have witnessed parts of a journey that, at times, felt nothing short of a miracle.But Pr...

Dr. Aninda Sidhana

Psychiatrist · Psychosexual Medicine Specialist

“We listen not to defeat an opponent, but to uncover the sacred ground between us.”

In an era driven by algorithmic division and weaponized outrage, The Listening Commons creates a digital sanctuary where disagreement does not preclude human dignity, and where curiosity outlives certainty.

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The Sanctity of Attention

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