By Deborah Rohan Schlueter, The World & I, February 2004
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Yoga Journal’s Karma Yoga Award to Leah Green – “Seeing Through Hostility and Fear”
By Phil Catalfo, Yoga Journal, December 2003
Leah Green receives Yoga Journal’s 2003 Karma Yoga Award
Listening to the Other Side
By Kathryn Kingsbury, Hope Magazine, December 7, 2003
Reconciliation and Magic
By Faye Strauss
In October 2003, on a Compassionate Listening Project trip to Germany, I lost my mind. In my case, this was a good thing.
2002 Peace Mission Study Trip to Israel/Palestine
By Reverend Peter Ilginfritz
This past January a group from University Congregational United Church of Christ in Seattle and Temple B’nai Torah in Bellevue went on a two-week peace mission study trip to Israel/Palestine. We went as a delegation from the Compassionate Listening Project in order to hear the stories and views of peoples on all sides of the conflict in this war torn land.
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There is Good in Just Listening
By Andrea Cohen, Seattle Post Intelligencer , September 10, 2002
Listening to the Stranger: A Sojourn in Syria
By Virginia Baron
Fellowship Magazine, July/August 2002
“Syria is the best kept secret,” Angela Williams, UNRWA director in Syria, told us on the morning of our second day in the country-and we were already inclined to agree.
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U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich Endorses Compassionate Listening
By Leah Green, Director
The Compassionate Listening Project
A unique gathering took place on May 25, 2002 at Town Hall in Seattle Washington, attended by approximately 300 citizens.
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Compassionate Listening: A Simply Radical Approach
By Erin Geesaman
The Catalyst, July 2002
Suicide bombers. Motherless children. Tanks rolling through neighborhoods, crumbling homes to rubble. In the Middle East today, these types of events are typically considered newsworthy. You won’t likely read about something so boring as listening. However, the Compassionate Listening Project and its delegations in the Middle East is far from boring. It’s simply radical. Imagine asking a terrorist to speak his views, his wounds, his dreams, and how he came to feel this way. Imagine listening.
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Journeys Toward Compassion
By Anne Batzer
Medford Mail Tribune, May 15, 2002
Carol Hwoschinsky says she really didn’t fear for her own safety on her last trip to Israel. But then there was that one evening. It was the darkest hour of a gravid and dead-silent January night. She was all alone. Gunshots pierced through the cold. “The Israelis were out looking for terrorist,” Carol explains, wincing at the painful memory. “they were getting pretty close. It was just so upsetting.”
