Closed: Intro to Compassionate Listening Facilitated by Amalia Phillips and Elizabeth Spitzer

Intro to Compassionate Listening

Facilitated by Amalia Phillips & Elizabeth Spitzer

Four Tuesdays, June 6, 2023

(June 6, 13, 20 and 27)

12 pm-2:30 pm PT |  3:00-5:30 pm  ET

Compassion is not a luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability; it is essential for human survival.

~ Dalai Lama

The world  can be chaotic, noisy, and full of distractions. In difficult times, when we struggle and question our way, it’s common to lose sight of who we truly are and forget that this is too a part of the shared human experience.

Join Amalia and Liz as they share the compassionate Listening practice to help handle challenging situations when you feel most vulnerable and/or reactive. Discover your true self, your authentic and unique core essence to slow your mind, and tune in to your heart's inner voice.

Compassionate Listening is a practice that reaches deep into the heart of discord or disconnection, teaching us to listen with a different "ear" to those around us. Its powerful tools help transform the energy of conflict into opportunities for understanding, intimacy at home, healthy relationships, productive teamwork, and positive action. It is a practice that provides a roadmap to what sages from all ages and cultures have taught: cultivating the wisdom of the heart is the key to real peace "from the inside out."

The skills of Compassionate Listening will empower you to become a stronger peacemaker. As we harness the wisdom of our hearts, we can shift challenging communication and relationships into compassionate interaction.

This experiential workshop focuses on the core practices developed by The Compassionate Listening Project:

• Cultivating and Holding Compassion for Oneself and Others
• Developing the Fair Witness, without Judgment or Blame
• Maintaining Balance in the Heat of Conflict, with Respect for Self and Others
• Listening with the Heart
• Speaking from the Heart, with Language that Reflects a Healing Intention

Cost

$250 - Friend

$300 - Supporter

$400 - Champion

$450 - Visionary

A limited number of $175 tickets are available for those who require financial assistance in order to attend.

The cost for this workshop series is tiered according to a pay-as-you-are-able structure. This enables us to offer workshops in a financially sustainable way while creating accessibility for those without financial means to attend, as well as opportunities for generosity for those who would like to support others' attendance.

We are committed to accessibility and sincerely wish for all who wish to attend our workshops to be able to do so, regardless of financial means. If the $175 ticket price is not affordable for you, please submit a scholarship request.

Your generous donations make our scholarship program possible. If you have the means, please consider donating to our scholarship fund to enable others to attend who otherwise would not be able to do so.

Event Details

This online course will be held on Zoom. It is highly experiential and requires your full presence, participation, and commitment to show up without distraction. We ask that you please attend each session since being together consistently enables us to build trust in one another and each session builds on the previous one.

In order to make the most of your experience and support others' learning and engagement, please:

• Plan to arrive in a quiet distraction-free environment, fully present and available to experience the workshop.

• Do not join the workshop while in transit (walking, driving, on the bus, etc.), or while multitasking (cooking, working, watching television, etc.).

• Connect to the event using a device that has full video and audio capability. Our hope is that everyone will be able to connect to the event using a device that has full video and audio capability because breakout rooms will be used to guide participants through our curriculum in small groups and we will be sharing screens throughout the course.

If you require any accommodations to attend, including physical limitations around viewing screens or having your video on, please contact us before the first session so that we can plan accordingly and/or match you with a workshop that meets your needs.

After registration and payment, you will receive a registration confirmation and welcome email. Please add us (staff@compassionatelistening.org) to your safe senders list to ensure that you receive all course access information.

If you have any questions, please contact us at staff@compassionatelistening.org.

Looking forward to meeting you in the circle!

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations made 7 days or more in advance of the event date will receive a 100% refund.