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Welcome to the Compassionate Listening Project.

We are a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering individuals and communities to transform conflict and create powerful cultures of peace. We accomplish our mission through:

• Trainings worldwide with our highly acclaimed curriculum;
• Skilled facilitation with families, communities, and in the workplace;
• Delegations and trainings in conflict and post-conflict zones;
• Advanced Training and Facilitator Certification;
• Publishing books and producing videos;
• Unique community building events;
• Tailored events for your needs.

“An enemy is one whose story we have not heard.” – Gene Knudsen Hoffman, Compassionate Listening pioneer and international peacemaker.

We invite you to take a few minutes to learn about our history and our work. Spend some time on our website, and visit our calendar to look for programs in your area. We have trainings coming up in Bainbridge Island, WA; Bayside, CA; Pittsboro, NC; Seattle, WA; Greensboro, NC; Chapel Hill, NC; Lake Junaluska, NC; Wake Forest, NC; Seabeck, WA.

Become A Friend in 2012!

Dear Friends:

We are grateful to our international community for helping us meet our 2012 fundraising goal of $25,000 by becoming a Friend of Compassionate Listening.
We are continually moved by the feedback we receive about the powerful ways that Compassionate Listening impacts lives, communities and organizations.

Click here to read our inspiring 2-page 2011 Annual Report.

To see the benefits of your generosity in action, we invite you to click here to view a short new video of Compassionate Listening in action.

Thank you for your support, both spiritual and material.

Compassionately yours,

Leah Green, Founding Director, and Allison Goldstein, Managing Director

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The Compassionate Listening project Presents: Systemic Family Constellations: Uncover the Hidden Solutions to Life’s Most Difficult Problems with Dr. Dan Booth Cohen, May 20, 2012, Bainbridge Island, WA. To learn more and to register, click here.

 



Advanced Training Course 2: Bringing Compassionate Listening into the World, November 8-12, 2012, Seabeck, WA, with senior trainers Susan Partnow and Leah Green. For more information and to register, click here.

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Announcing our First Guatemala Delegation!  
Journey to the Heart of Guate-Maya, December 16 – 28, 2012, San Pedro La Laguna, Lake Atitlan, with Leah Green.  More information and registration details coming soon!

 

 

Save the date for our 2012 Annual Gathering: October 12-14 at Camp Indianola! Learn more here.
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Journey to the Heart of Peacemaking: Our delegation to Israel and the West Bank returned in March 2012. Learn more about this remarkable work here.

 

 



"If we can change ourselves, we can change the world. We're not the victims of the world we see, we're the victims of the way we see the world. This is the essence of Compassionate Listening: seeing the person next to you as a part of yourself. - Dennis Kucinich, U.S. Congressman"


Slideshow photo credits: Leah Green, Linda Wolf, Michael Klein

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