The Compassionate Listening Project

Compassionate Listening

Staff

Leah photo (5K) Leah Green is founder and director of The Compassionate Listening Project. She holds a masters degrees in Public Policy from the University of Washington, where she also completed her coursework for a Masters in Middle Eastern Studies. Leah is recognized as a leader in Jewish-Palestinian reconciliation. She has led 22 training delegations to Israel/Palestine, speaks and writes about Middle East peace-building, and has produced three documentaries about the conflict: Speaking of Peace, Children of Abraham, and Crossing the Lines: Palestinians and Israelis Speak With The Compassionate Listening Project. Leah has also led delegations to Jordan, Syria and Lebanon, and in 2002, she co-founded the Jewish-German Compassionate Listening Project. Leah has facilitated and taught Compassionate Listening in Israel and Palestine since 1999 and now teaches world-wide in public, private and academic settings. Her work has been profiled in several books, including Gary Zukav's "Soul Stories", Susan Skog's "Peace In Our Lifetime," "Soul of Success: A Woman's Guide to Authentic Power" by Jennifer Hawthorne, and "Peace, Justice and Jews: Reclaiming Our Tradition." Leah is a 2003 recipient of the Yoga Journal's "Karma Yoga Award."

Carol Hwoschinsky, Compassionate Listening Trainer/Group Facilitator: Carol holds Masters Degrees in Special Education and Psychology. She is a licensed counselor in private practice, an educator and a mediator. She teaches Conflict Resolution, develops diversity and conflict resolution curricula for schools and mediates for a Victim/Offender program in the courts and for community disputes. She has worked in Armenia to support dialogue and joint projects with Armenia, Karabakh and Azerbaijan, and taught psychology and communication in the former Soviet Union. Carol is the author of Listening With the Heart - a guide for Compassionate Listening.

Thérèse Charvet is our new Administrative Director. For over thirty years Thérèse has been a teacher, organizer and facilitator in a variety of contexts and venues, professional, community and spiritual. She is a nurse, midwife, and ordained minister who currently runs Sacred Groves, a small eco-spiritual center based on her property on Bainbridge Island. She co-founded a Compassionate Listening practice group that ran from 2001-2008, and developed the concept of "Listening Councils," a grassroots conflict-resolution method developed with Brian Berman. Therese has been a certified Compassionate Listening facilitator since 2006.

Click here to see a list of our certified Compassionate Listening facilitators.