Compassionate Listening: Healing Our World from the Inside Out

How do we look at those who differ from us and see our shared humanity?

 www.compassionatelistening.org

• Humanize and connect with people who “trigger” you
• Shift from reactivity to compassion
• Suspend judgment
• Nurture compassion for yourself and others
• Speak from the heart with language that reflects a healing intent

Strengthen your capacity to connect with the humanity of each person whose path you cross, whether or not you share the same values and behaviors. As we move beyond a mindset that dehumanizes the ‘other’, opportunities for building bridges emerge; we seek instead to listen, to feel compassion for, and to see ourselves in the ‘other’ and the ‘other’ in ourselves.

Cost: $35-$75, based on ability to pay

Contact: Jan Hutton, janhutton@earthlink.net, 919.967.1959

(Continuing Education hours for Social Workers will be available)

 “It is futile to implement ideas in the public realm unless we practice them in our personal lives”

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

Jan Hutton, MSW, a certified Compassionate Listening facilitator, believes in supporting wholeness in each human being.  Over the last 39 years, she has served as a community organizer, social worker in hospice and hospital settings, a meditation teacher, and she hopes, a ‘kind’ person.