Intro to Compassionate Listening: Healing Our World from the Inside Out, Facilitated by Eligar Sadeh

Intro to Compassionate Listening: Healing Our World from the Inside Out

Facilitated by Eligar Sadeh

Five Sundays, March 29th - April 26th

(March 29, April 5, April 12, April 19, and April 26)

9 - 11:30 am Pacific | 12 - 2:30 pm Eastern | 6 pm - 8:30 pm Central European

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

~ Dalai Lama

In these extraordinary times, we are called to show up fully, to listen deeply, engage wholeheartedly, and strengthen our capacity to remain compassionate even in the face of challenge. The world needs each of us to bring our whole selves forward, to cultivate the resilience that allows us to act with both courage and kindness.

Compassionate Listening is a transformative practice that reaches into the heart of discord and disconnection, teaching us to listen in a new way, one that fosters understanding, connection, and healing. When we soften our hearts while strengthening our backs, we open the door to deeper relationships, productive teamwork, and courageous action for change.

In this experiential workshop, we will explore the core practices of The Compassionate Listening Project, which offer practical tools to help us navigate difficult conversations and sustain ourselves in our work for peace and justice:

• 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

Together, we will practice the art of deep listening, not just to others, but to ourselves and the world around us. We will strengthen our ability to remain present, even in the face of disagreement, and to transform conflict into opportunities for connection and healing.

This workshop is for anyone who longs to contribute to the healing of our communities, to build bridges where there is division, and to be part of creating the Beloved Community we know is possible.

Come as you are. Leave with tools to sustain you.

Cost

$390 - Standard Ticket (This ticket covers your participation in the Intro to Compassionate Listening and helps sustain our programs.)

$450 - Community Builder Ticket (This ticket includes your participation while also contributing to our scholarship fund and the growth of Compassionate Listening.)

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 ticket price is not affordable for you, please submit a scholarship request. We sincerely want everyone who wishes to attend to have the opportunity.

Our scholarship program is made possible by generous contributions from our community. If you have the means, please consider choosing the Community Builder ticket or making an additional donation to support others in attending.

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!

Continuing Education Units

We are delighted to offer this course for Continuing Education Credits for teachers: 1 quarter credit ($45) or 12 hours ($18) (clock hours, PDUs or CEUs)  This is made possible through The Heritage Institute courses in arrangement for continuing education quarter credits by Antioch University Seattle at the 400 and 500 levels. Call 1-360-341-3020 or log onto www.hol.edu policies page for more information.

To initiate the process to apply for credits or CEUs,  please contact Alanna at staff@compassionatelistening.org.

Cancellation Policy

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

Facilitator:

Eligar (Eli) Sadeh | Breckenridge, Colorado

Eligar Sadeh, Ph.D., is an Aerospace Professional since 1982. He is a TEDx speaker, and CEO and Founder of Astroconsulting International LLC and the non-profit Astropolitics Institute where he engages in consulting and educational programming. Eli serves as Chief Editor of the academic journal Astropolitics, which covers human factors related to the space program. He is a Professor and STEM educator. Professional experiences include work with NASA, the aerospace industry, and numerous universities. Eli’s leadership in aerospace and seminal publications helped revolutionize the way we think about space exploration. Further, Eli has been a peace activist since the 1980s addressing the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. He was a group leader of the Arab-Jewish Dialogue Program at Hebrew University, which started in the 1960s. This program is aimed at addressing the dehumanization that occurs between Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs, and engages in social, cultural, and political programming. Eli was a group facilitator at Neve Shalom’s Arab-Jewish Dialogue Program, now called the School of Peace. This program employs an empathetic based model focused on listening to the narratives of Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs. He served as a facilitator with Tikkun's Network of Spiritual Progressives. This network addresses issues of social injustice. Eli was a group leader for J Street in Colorado focused on educational programming and political activism to support a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Also, Eli served as a community facilitator to address conflict though Restorative Justice practices through the Boulder Housing Coalition and Bloomington Cooperative Living. Both organizations are non-profits that support intentional community living. He has led groups through the circling model focused on love and compassion in addressing social injustices. Eligar empowers programs, projects, and people across academic, industry, government, and non-profit sectors.