Compassionate Listening Project

A non-profit organization dedicated to empowering individuals and communities to transform conflict and strengthen cultures of peace

ABOUT US

Gene Knudsen Hoffman, international peacemaker and Quaker, developed the concept of Compassionate Listening. She was influenced by her teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh, who she worked with in the 1970s. We created the curriculum and teach world-wide.

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GET INVOLVED

Take a workshop
Start a practice group in your home or community
Become a facilitator
Choose one of our facilitators for coaching or mentoring
Read our books

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JOURNEYS

Join us for profound immersions: Journey to the Heart of Israel and Palestine, Stay tuned for post-Covid dates!

Journey to Alabama,

stay tuned for post-coved dates!.

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"Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart...

Because you know that listening like that, you give that person a chance to suffer less. If you want to help him to correct his perception, you wait for another time...You just listen with compassion and help him to suffer less. One hour like that can bring transformation and healing."

-Thich Nhat Hanh

Offerings

Facilitator Certification

Upcoming Events

White-Bodied Inner Work: Using Compassionate Listening to Unpack Our Racial Conditioning

Sat, Jan 09

Online Training

Jan 09, 2021, 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM PST

Online Training

This 6-week online series will co-create a learning space for exploring our racial conditioning in the framework of Compassionate Listening, a heart-centered practice of deep listening and speaking from the heart. We hope that our inner healing will ripple out into the world through our actions.

Taste of Compassionate Listening

Mon, Jan 11

Online Workshop

Jan 11, 2021, 11:00 AM – 1:30 PM PST

Online Workshop

with Susan Partnow & Rachel Eryn Kalish

Compassionate Listening in Polarizing Times

Mon, Jan 18

Online Workshop Series

Jan 18, 2021, 4:00 PM – 6:30 PM PST

Online Workshop Series

Practicing Challenging Political Conversations with our Hearts Open and our Wisdom Intact

Healing Our World from the Inside Out: Intro to Compassionate Listening with Susan Partnow and Gayle Johnson

Thu, Feb 11

Online Training

Feb 11, 2021, 11:00 AM – 1:30 PM PST

Online Training

Humanity is waking up to our interconnectedness as never before - to one another and to the Earth. We believe that learning to listen with compassion to ourselves and others is a key to this awakening, and that our evolutionary capacity is directly linked to our ability to navigate conflict.