"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 peacemakers, 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, teaching people to listen with a different “ear” to those around them, strengthening our capacity for peace in each moment.

The Compassionate Listening Project
www.compassionatelistening.org

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

Healing the World from the Inside Out

Cost: $25 - $75, sliding scale, according to need.

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