Compassionate Listening and Peacemaking, an Introductory Workshop

Compassionate Listening is a foundational skill-set designed to empower individuals and communities to build cultures of peace in the fabric of their everyday lives and in the world.

As builders of peace, we learn to move beyond a mindset that dehumanizes and demonizes the ‘other’, seeking instead to listen, to feel compassion for, and to see ourselves in the ‘other’, the ‘other’ in ourselves. The Compassionate Listening Project offers practices that reach deep into the heart of discord, strengthening our capacity for connecting with the humanity of each person whose path we cross.

Explore the Heart-based Practices of Compassionate Listening:

•Having compassion for oneself and others
•Suspending judgment
•Maintaining balance in the heat of conflict
•Speaking from the heart with language that reflects a healing intention

The Compassionate Listening Project
Healing the World from the Inside Out
http://www.compassionatelistening.org

Suggested Donation: $25 - $75

Jan Hutton, MSW, a certified Compassionate Listening facilitator, believes in supporting wholeness in each human being. Over the last 38 years, she has served as a community organizer, social worker in hospice and hospital settings, meditation teacher, and, she hopes, a ‘kind’ person. Contact Jan for information or registration, janhutton@earthlink.net