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Become a More Powerful Peacemaker in Your Family, Community and WorkplaceExplore the Five Core Practices of Compassionate Listening and learn the skills necessary to bring this powerful technique into your daily life. It 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,…See More

Become a More Powerful Peacemaker in Your Family, Community and WorkplaceExplore the Five Core Practices of Compassionate Listening and learn the skills necessary to bring this powerful technique into your daily life. It 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,…See More

"There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground." --RumiThe Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley is hosting Sacred Snapshots is a day-long event celebrating spiritual practices from a range of religions and traditions.Each hour you can choose from an array of experiential sessions and brain-bending lectures on divinity in its many forms, taught by progressive leaders, thinkers, and practitioners of various faiths.In one day, you can try anything from drumming, to meditation, to…See More