How do we cultivate the inner stability to listen generously to our own knowing and discover the perspectives and humanity in others? This takes practice and a commitment to keep showing up over time. This six-session series provides a place to learn, listen and practice in community.

Please join us on Tuesday afternoons (virtually) for this spring’s Listening Circle to explore practical skills and the spirit of generous listening. Staying in dialogue, especially when we are rattled, stressed and angered is challenging. We needs places where we can strengthen our listening muscles. Each week’s call includes a poem or quote to invite reflection, a listening skill to practice, and time to listen to oneself and others to discover insights to practice in life’s daily interactions.

Listening skills include:

• Making space & showing up

• Practicing ways to hold yourself and others and to be held 

• Becoming more fluent in your own and other people’s language, context, and meanings

• Listening generously and reflecting what you hear

• Exploring the nature of questions that open and continue dialogue

• Noticing how everything teaches and informs

Looking for practical tools and space to try them out? This six week offering is for you.

Facilitator:

Kim Reindl as a trained Listening Circle Facilitator with WholeHeart. “I come to our circle as someone who is faced daily with the questions: ‘How do I care for myself in a way that supports my caring for others?’ ‘What is it that sustains me through life’s challenges?’ ‘How do I embrace caring with kindness and compassion?’

As we gather in our circle, my intention is to create together a grace-filled, supportive community that invites spaciousness for your own deep listening.”

Perspective: Here is what past participants experienced:

“These calls provided for me an opportunity to look deeply into the layers that make up active listening. I teased apart those aspects of my listening that were more about listening to myself and moved towards a greater understanding of what it means to listen deeply to another as a way to really see and value them.”

“This offering invites you to settle into yourself to find and listen to the quiet wise voice within. This inner attunement prepares you to listen more fully when others are speaking, almost like learning to listen with all of your senses.”