Empathetic Therapy Sessions
The Compassionate Listening Project empowers individuals and communities to transform conflict and create cultures of peace and healing. We accomplish this through workshops, facilitator training, listening journeys and partnerships with humanitarian, social justice and peace-building groups.
Guided by our commitment to listen and speak from the heart, we cultivate a living culture that grounds our vision, principles, practices, and values. This culture embraces human dignity, equity, and inclusivity, as we aspire to expand our ability to authentically see each other as human beings. We humbly believe that this journey is a continual process of learning and unlearning.
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.
Goal Setting and Planning
Humanity is waking up to our interconnectedness—to one another and to Earth. I believe that listening 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.
Gene Knudsen Hoffman, international peacemaker and Quaker, developed the concept of Compassionate Listening, influenced by her teacher, Thich Nhat Hanh. Leah Green founded the Compassionate Listening Project; we created the curriculum and teach world-wide.
Compassion in Action: An Introduction to The Compassionate Listening Project
This introduction to the history and work of the Compassionate Listening Project includes interview clips with founder, Leah Green, senior trainers Andrea Cohen and Susan Partnow, and training participants.
The Truest You in process
Compassionate listening (spiritual direction) tipped my life right over. Flipped my theology on it's enormously sanctimonious behind. Set me on a path toward a free and wonder-led exploration that I'd not fathomed possible. Like, imagine my interior life as dried up desert and thistle-bound rocks one day. It was wacky garden scapes and stone sculptures and river paths and shouting into the wind and every kind of aliveness the very next.