Compassionate Listening Basics June 13, 2009

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Become a More Powerful Peacemaker in Your Family, Community and Workplace

Explore the Five Core Practices of Compassionate Listening and learn the skills necessary to bring this powerful technique into your daily life.

Holding Compassion for Oneself and Others
Suspending Judgment
Maintaining Balance in the Heat of Conflict
Listening with the Heart
Speaking from the Heart

Compassionate Listening is a practice that reaches deep into the heart of discord or disconnection, teaching people to listen with a different "ear" to those around them. Its powerful tools help transform the energy of conflict into opportunities for understanding, intimacy at home, healthy relations, productive teamwork, and positive action. It is a practice that provides a roadmap to what sages from all ages and cultures have taught: cultivating the wisdom of the heart is the key to real peace "from the inside out."

This is a 1-day non-residential experiential workshop. We encourage you to take the second day of our two-day Intensive at a later date to complete your understanding and introduction to the practice of compassionate listening. The second day brings in essential insights and additional practices. You may choose to review the first day at that time (at no extra cost) or just enroll for the second day.
Andrea Cohen is a communications consultant, project developer, and certified Compassionate Listening facilitator who has been involved with The Compassionate Listening Project since its inception. She is the director of the TCLP film Children of Abraham and is co-director of the Jewish-German Reconciliation Project.

Susan Partnow is co-founder of Conversation Cafes, Lets Talk America and Global Citizen Journey. She is a former teacher and speech pathologist, author of Everyday Speaking for All Occasions, certified mediator and an organizational development consultant/trainer for over 20 years, with an M.A. from Northwestern University.

Cost: Sliding fee based on individual's comfort of $75-$175. Preregistration and $50 deposit are required. Following completion of the workshop, people are asked to pay at the level above minimum they're comfortable with. No credit card payment will be accepted at that time.

If you cancel with more than two weeks notice, we can apply your registration to a future workshop. With less than two weeks notice, we can apply $25 toward a future workshop. There are no refunds.

Final payment is due at the conclusion of the workshop, and is based on your ability to pay and your perceived value of the workshop. We welcome people of all nationalities and backgrounds.

After registering and paying, you will receive an email from PayPal confirming your payment. If you do not receive a confirmation, then assume the transaction did not go through.


Organized by The Compassionate Listening Project
The Compassionate Listening Project, located in Indianola, WA, grew out of the work of Gene Knudsen Hoffman, a Quaker and international peacemaker.

Our formal training program, in existence for approximately ten years, is aimed at deepening people's ability to listen with an open heart in difficult situations and learning to humanize those we consider "other".

We are grateful to the many people we have learned from over the years who have helped make Compassionate Listening the profound practice it is today.

Facilitators for this workshop are Andrea Cohen and Susan Partnow, both certified Compassionate Listening facilitators who have been with The Compassionate Listenng Project since its inception. They are trainers for the residential Advanced Training Series and also serve as mentors to those seeking to further their skills.

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Ticket Info:  Pre-registration, $51.25

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