Compassionate Listening: Healing Our World from the Inside Out with Susan Partnow of the Compassionate Listening Project.
"Compassion is not a luxury, it is essential for our own peace and mental stability; it is essential for human survival." Dalai Lama
- Cultivating compassion for yourself and others
- Suspending judgment
- Maintaining balance in the heat of conflict
- Listening with the heart
- Speaking from the heart
Susan Partnow, M.A., has catalyzed social transformation for 30+ years from Africa to Guatemala, Cuba to Japan. Co-founder of Conversation Cafes, Let’s Talk America, Global Citizen Journey and Seattle Restorative Justice. Author of Everyday Speaking for All Occasions and co-contributor to Practicing the Art of Compassionate Listening. Passionately committed to inter-cultural understanding, peacemaking and community building, Susan deeply believes we can and must 'listen our way to wholeness' to find our essential humanity through connection, wise co-creation, and dialogue. Susan has been an essential part of Compassionate Listening soon after its inception. She was one of the very first trainers, part of the core council that created the core practices and the advanced training, and a former Board member.
www.compassionatelistening.org
Masters throughout the ages recognize listening as one of the most precious gifts we can give to another human being, and compassion as necessary for human survival. Our evolutionary capacity at this time may be directly linked to our ability to navigate conflict. In every human interaction, whether as friend, family member, mentor, co-worker, leader or social activist, the practice of Compassionate Listening builds trust, connection, understanding, respectful dialogue and sustainable solutions.
This experience introduction focuses on the core practices of Compassionate Listing.
