The work is based on an insight on how transgenerational trauma reveals itself through listening practices and modes of listening – that is where the concept of “unwanted listening.” comes from. Unwanted listening refers to all situations, where attentive listening is related either to strategies for survival (in situations of danger occuring during forced migrations, fleeing the place of military actions or persecutions, and seeking refuge) or would be entangled in transmitting accounts of trauma and forced listening as bearing witness. The concept emphasizes the need for a more nuanced approach towards the practice of attentattentive listening that generally is framed as a healing practice of mindfulness. Such a nuanced approach would also include all the ambiguity of situations and examples of attentive, deep listening that comes from a space of embodied, somatic response conditioned by traumatic event itself or by various aspects of cPTSD and transgenerational trauma. It incorporates listening modes consisting of repeated acts of bearing witness the stories of violence survivors in familial environments as an underage listening subject. A reverse of unwanted listening is forced silencing and may also result in severe inability to fully express trauma-induced wounds and scars across generations.