Podcasts about compassionate listening

Dr. T and Truth Fairy welcome guest Gil Bar-Sela to the podcast to talk about his work as a psychedelic guide, facilitator, and trainer working with individuals, couples, and groups. Gil weaves modalities like generative somatics, compassionate listening, and archetypal work into the more ancient medicine ceremonies. Gil shares his personal journey with Dr. T and Truth Fairy and engages in thoughtful discussions about psychedelics and healing. Gil shares that when he moved to the United States after being raised in Tel Aviv, Israel, he had his first opportunity to deal with the trauma lodged in his body. That led him to ask questions about conflict, the root causes of conflict, trauma, and intergenerational trauma which put him on track to explore all those issues. He also began his own personal healing process around his queer identity. This experience and questioning led him to the studies and practices he engages in today.  Truth Fairy, Gil, and Dr. T talk about how self-awareness is what first leads to healing work. Having a sense of what we need can lead us to the right kind of work to be doing. Gil talks about the building blocks necessary to become a good guide which include ethics, pharmacology, and onboarding clients in a responsible way. The conversation highlights Gil's own strong sense of guidance and understanding of the different types of medicine available for healing individuals which also includes psychedelics.“You have the psychiatrist, you have the psychotherapist moving into the space that are very rooted in the Western psyche, but are also lacking usually in terms of connection to spirit, to more expansive practices, to ancient wisdom. And so I think, in particular, the role of the underground guide can be to merge the two worlds. Because we're not here and we're not there. We can be bridge builders. The training that I lead is very much focused on that.” - Gil Bar-Sela__About Gil Bar-Sela:Gil has trained teams and businesses to invoke a thriving work culture. He has inspired audiences of thousands by speaking at colleges across the country on topics such as the power of listening and gender equality. He has collaborated with the leadership team of Seattle's Restorative Justice Initiative, creating community-based, non-punitive solutions to conflict. He co-leads annual delegations to Palestine and Israel with The Compassionate Listening Project, an organization dedicated to empowering individuals and communities to transform conflict and strengthen cultures of peace. He also coaches privately, and leads workshops and retreats globally.Gil is a Certified Trainer with the Heart Math Institute and a Certified Facilitator with The Compassionate Listening Project. He has also trained at Susan Scott's Fierce Conversations, Dominic Barter's Restorative Circles, Core Energetics, META (Mindful Experiential Therapy Approaches), Cortiva's 1,000-hour massage therapy program, and shamanism.Website: GilBarSela.com__Contact Punk Therapy:Patreon: Patreon.com/PunkTherapyWebsite: PunkTherapy.comEmail: info@punktherapy.com

Use code BEHEALED on both of these websites https://signalrelief.com/ and https://meetjovi.com/And to donate to me finding a surgeon that will help me go here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-nico-barraza-soar-after-five-surgeriesThe podcast episode explores the fundamental skill of listening during emotionally charged moments and the barriers that prevent effective communication in relationships. Through personal anecdotes, I discuss the necessity of empathy, the true nature of apologies, and the importance of setting boundaries while remaining open-hearted.• Urging listeners to listen actively, even when triggered • Discussing the significance of true apologies and accountability • Highlighting emotional labor within relationships • Sharing personal stories of compassion and connection • Addressing the internal battles of mental health and societal pressures • Encouraging self-awareness and community ties • Emphasizing the power of showing up for one another in times of needSupport the showWarmly,Nico Barraza@FeedTheSoulNBwww.nicobarraza.com

In this episode of Fishing Without Bait, host Jim Ellermeyer engages in a profound conversation with Bronwyn Schweigerdt, a psychotherapist and anger expert. Bronwyn delves into the impact of generational trauma and the importance of breaking cycles of shame. She shares transformative techniques for forgiveness, explaining the role of self-reflection and externalizing emotions in healing. The discussion extends to the philosophy of forgiveness, viewing it as a personal liberation rather than exoneration of others. Bronwyn also explores managing triggers, cultivating compassionate listening, and the necessity of boundaries for emotional well-being. She recounts her personal journey overcoming depression and insomnia, attributing her recovery to addressing unresolved emotions and setting firm boundaries. Additionally, she highlights her evolution from a career in nutrition to psychotherapy, emphasizing the interconnectedness of diet, self-worth, and mental health.Are you finding benefit from this show?  We appreciate any support with our Patreon page!  Pledge as little as $1 a month for extra clips, behind the scenes and more at www.patreon.com/fishingwithoutbait ! Subscribe to our Podcast on Apple Podcasts, TuneIn, Youtube or look for it on your favorite Podcatcher!

#selfdevelopment #guidinglights Visit our sponsor today! 75 Quotes of Inspiration for Today   For more positivity, good news, and uplifting messages visit:  Thank you for listening! If you like, please subscribe for more!   The Art of Compassionate Listening Cultivating Understanding and Empathy   In our fast-paced, technology-driven world, the art of truly listening has become a rare commodity. We are often so consumed by our own thoughts, distractions, and the need to respond quickly that we fail to fully engage in the act of listening. However, compassionate listening is a powerful tool that can foster deeper understanding, empathy, and meaningful connections with others.   What is Compassionate Listening? Compassionate listening goes beyond simply hearing the words someone is saying. It involves actively and intentionally listening with an open mind and heart, free from judgment or the need to formulate a response. It requires us to be fully present, attentive, and focused on the speaker, allowing their words, emotions, and experiences to resonate within us.   When we practice compassionate listening, we create a safe space for others to express themselves freely, without fear of being interrupted, criticized, or dismissed. This act of genuine presence and acceptance can be profoundly healing and validating for the speaker, fostering a sense of being truly heard and understood.   The Benefits of Compassionate Listening Cultivating the art of compassionate listening can have far-reaching benefits for both the listener and the speaker:   1. Deeper Connections: By actively listening with empathy and understanding, we create stronger, more meaningful connections with others. This can improve personal and professional relationships, fostering trust and mutual respect.   2. Increased Self-Awareness: When we listen compassionately, we become more attuned to our own thoughts, feelings, and biases. This self-awareness can lead to personal growth and a greater capacity for self-reflection.   3. Conflict Resolution: Compassionate listening can help diffuse tense situations and resolve conflicts by creating an environment of mutual understanding and respect. It allows both parties to feel heard and validated, paving the way for constructive dialogue and compromise.   4. Improved Communication: By actively listening and seeking to understand others, we enhance our communication skills and become better communicators ourselves. This can lead to more effective collaboration, problem-solving, and decision-making.   Cultivating the Art of Compassionate Listening Developing the skill of compassionate listening takes practice and intentionality. Here are some tips to help you cultivate this invaluable art:   1. Be Present: Eliminate distractions and give the speaker your undivided attention. Maintain eye contact, nod, and use affirmative body language to show you are engaged.   2. Suspend Judgment: Approach the conversation with an open mind and heart. Resist the urge to formulate a response or counterargument while the other person is speaking.   3. Ask Clarifying Questions: If you're unsure about something, ask respectful questions to gain a deeper understanding of the speaker's perspective.   4. Reflect and Validate: Periodically summarize or rephrase what the speaker has said to ensure you've understood correctly and to validate their experience.   5. Practice Empathy: Strive to understand the speaker's emotions, motivations, and experiences, even if they differ from your own. Imagine yourself in their shoes.   Compassionate listening is a powerful act of kindness and respect. By cultivating this art, we create a more understanding, empathetic, and connected world, one conversation at a time. Embrace the power of truly listening, and watch as barriers dissolve and meaningful connections flourish.

In this SAFE SPACE episode we're going to find out what it's like to live with a diagnosis of Schizophrenia so we can understand it better and help reduce some of the stigma surrounding this mental wellbeing issue. Jess sits down with 45-year-old Phoebe Kingston who has a lived experience of mental distress including a diagnosis of Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective Disorder, and more recently, Dissociative Identity Disorder.  Phoebe openly shares the stigma and discrimination they've faced, which can often be more distressing than the symptoms of the illness itself. You'll hear first hand what it's like to experience an acute, psychotic and delusional paranoid episode. There is so much we can learn from Phoebe including the importance of compassionate listening and human connection, while debunking some common myths and misconceptions surrounding Schizophrenia. Phoebe works in several roles across the mental health sector, and is a lived experience peer ambassador for SANE Australia. Phoebe has a special interest area in advocacy for alternative understandings of mental & emotional distress. So in this conversation you'll hear Phoebe use non clinical language from a carefully chosen framework of understanding and self-identity. Everyone's personal lived experience story is unique, and Phoebe is termed a ‘critical democratic peer worker' for their overarching perspectives on mental well being. Content Warning: This episode touches on suicide and you'll hear some detailed descriptions of what it's like to experience psychosis. If anything in this story has caused you distress you might like to contact lifeline 13 11 14 or Blue Knot Foundation that deals with childhood trauma Is there somebody you'd like to share this episode with? Just tap the 3 dots above ⬆︎ and pass it on LINKS: If you need support or want to learn more about Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective disorder or or you're looking to connect to other people in this situation Sane Australia  Visit The Warren Academy for more of Phoebe's recommended resources If you love what we do, why not follow the show, and rate and review on Apple or Spotify Is there someone you'd like to hear on the podcast? Send Jess your guest ideas here CREDITS:Host: Jessica RoweGuest: Phoebe Kingston Executive Producer: Nic McClureAudio Producer: Nat Marshall Digital Content Producer: Zoe Panaretos The Jess Rowe Big Talk Show acknowledges the Gadigal people, Traditional Custodians of the land on which we recorded this podcast, and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders peoples here today.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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When was the last time you truly felt heard? Ed and Arna Vodenos Clinical Director of the OC Warmline dive deep into the subject of compassionate listening. Find out the philosophy and the care that is put into the NAMI OC Warmline through the work that Arna does with her peer mentoring team.  NAMI OC WarmLine - (714) 991-6412 Contact: ItsOkaytoFeel@namioc.org

Effective communications can make or break a relationship. This doesn't always mean effectively proving our points or being right or even perfect. I'm talking about listening with an open compassionate heart and a desire to mend your relationships. This authentically deepens the heart connection. It's more than a band-aid, it heals core wounds. If we truly care about our connection with someone, truly listening, as my teacher used to say, "with the ear of your heart" is most healing for both of you. This is our topic of this week's Meditation & Healing Circle. Listen in to release your defenses, center yourself, and communicate with an open heart to truly mend the relationships that are most important to you.You're invited to join us LIVE for The Meditation & Healing Circle - every Sunday at 10am US ET / 7am US PT. When you join live, you can stay on after the recorded meditation for Q&A, support and discussion. https://CommunityforConsciousLiving.com

In this enlightening episode, our host, Grace, invites four time, best-selling author and world-renowned storyteller Kelly Corrigan to a heartfelt conversation exploring the impact of authentic communication and emotional honesty.  Kelly stresses the crucial role of active listening and genuine presence, sharing a personal anecdote of a powerful conversation with her daughter amidst the pandemic. The discussion delves into the fear of judgment when expressing feelings and the honor in being trusted to hold space for another's emotions.  Grace and Kelly connect on the influence of culture on self-worth and the tendency to compare oneself to others. They discuss the empowering act of defining your own value and the transformative potential of storytelling and literature in enhancing one's ability to connect and communicate effectively.  They share the challenges of balancing multiple roles as leaders, mothers, truth-seekers, and partners, discuss their beliefs around the innate creativity within everyone, and the importance of taking incremental (seemingly tiny, but impactful) actions toward one's goals and aspirations.  Tune in and join Grace and Kelly as they encourage listeners to embrace vulnerability and reflect on the empowering process of growth that can emerge from life's darkest moments.   //   https://www.thehivery.com/podcast Subscribe to The Hivery Newsletter: https://www.thehivery.com/newsletter-subscription Follow The Hivery on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thehivery/

Join Rebecca Crichton in conversation with Andrea Cohen, a long-time facilitator of Compassionate Listening practices. Andrea will share personal stories of how these practices have transformed conflicts – with families, friends, and within challenged communities – into relationships based on greater understanding, caring, and connection. Andrea Cohen, MSW, is a certified Compassionate Listening facilitator. She is the author of Practicing the Art of Compassionate Listening and director of the Compassionate Listening film Children of Abraham. She also co-directed the Compassionate Listening-based Jewish-German Reconciliation Project for several years. Rebecca Crichton started her “Encore Career” as Executive Director of NWCCA in 2012 after 21 years with The Boeing Company. She refashioned her skills and knowledge as a writer, curriculum designer, and leadership development coach to offer Creative Aging programs at many Seattle area venues. An active participant in the local aging community, she writes regularly for 3rd Act Magazine. Presented by Town Hall Seattle and Northwest Center for Creative Aging.

Ready to master the art of compassionate listening and unlock the key to deeper, more meaningful relationships? We highlight its roots in Buddhist tradition and explain the subtle yet powerful differences between hearing and truly listening. Our insights are interwoven with relatable personal experiences, enriching this enlightening exploration with practical examples. We realized how self-focused we can be in personal conversation!Silence is a powerful communicator, and as we share our journey from introversion to authentic communication, you'll learn how to harness the power of mindful silence. The conversation delves into the virtues of vulnerability, empathy, and genuine interactions. These nuggets of wisdom are bound to inspire you, nudging you to drop your guard and open your heart in your interactions with others.In the final act of this auditory journey, we delve into the practical application of compassionate listening in everyday life. Here, you'll learn about setting boundaries, practicing patience, and the immense power of offering someone your undivided attention. With a unique Buddhist perspective, we explore our commonality and how this shared experience can bridge deep connections. Listen in, soak up the wisdom, and remember, the act of sharing this knowledge is a step towards spreading compassion in our world.Visit our website!Recovery Collective — Annapolis, MD (recoverycollectivemd.com)Zaw Maw — Recovery Collective — Annapolis, MD (recoverycollectivemd.com)Luke DeBoy — Recovery Collective — Annapolis, MD (recoverycollectivemd.com)New Episodes are released every Monday.Please send your questions to: luke@recoverycollectivemd.comThanks for listening, and please subscribe/comment/review/follow/like; if you think others would benefit from the podcast episode, share with others, as COLLECTIVELY, we can find solutions to all things health and wellness.The episodes contain content, including information provided by guests, intended for perspective, informational, and entertainment purposes only. The content is not intended to replace or substitute for any professional medical, counseling, therapeutic, legal, or other advice. If you have specific concerns or a situation in which you require professional advice, you should consult with an appropriately trained and qualified professional expert and specialist. If you have a health or mental health emergency, please call 9-1-1 or 9-8-8Explore a mindful path with Zaw Maw's coaching—Foster balance, healing, recovery, and meditation in your life's journey through his supportive and wisdom-based guidance.Support the show

Are you the adult child of trauma, who has grown up confused, feeling not good enough, and full of confusion over why life has become so complicated? Was your mother or father an alcoholic, narcissist, emotionally immature, and were you forced to figure out life on your own due to emotional neglect? Those of us who find ourselves listening to self-help podcasts, seeking therapy, and are drawn to spiritually healing information are often adults who have grown up feeling unworthy due to unhealed wounds from childhood.  In this episode, you will hear Lisa A. Romano, who is best known for her remarkable work in the field of codependency and narcissistic abuse recovery, help those who have called into her webinar understand themselves from a higher perspective. Lisa is also well known for her understanding of consciousness as it relates to childhood trauma, subconscious programming, and living below the veil of consciousness. So, if you are ready to understand how to heal your wounded self through living a compassion based and conscious life, this episode is for you. Join Lisa's and her Breakthrough Healing Warriors inside her private membership. Learn more here: https://www.lisaaromano.com/bwm

At this week's Round Table, Emily, Emmanuel, and Heba spoke with Joel Berman, a retired primary care physician who lives in Concord, NH and is a longtime volunteer from The Compassionate Listening Project–something we could all benefit from doing more of these days, which made us excited to engage in this conversation! The Compassionate Listening Project works to empower individuals and communities to transform conflict and create cultures of peace and healing. It accomplishes this through workshops, facilitator training, listening journeys, and partnerships with humanitarian, social justice, and peace-building groups.Compassionate Listening offerings cultivate practices that hold courageous and generative space to bring people together across differences. We discussed complex and timely questions like “What does it mean to truly create safe & courageous space and what are the best ways to do so and to unleash creativity?” We dove into the power of storytelling as well as the importance of peer support in working to rewire our brains away from tribalism, which is incredibly hard! We acknowledged the intense practice it takes to master it, the degree to which we will sometimes fail--and learn from failing, and the need to be compassionate with ourselves when we do. We also discussed the value of having a compassionate listening practice group to do this work with regularly-a laboratory within which to take risks and receive honest feedback. Joel founded and has been part of one for over a decade! At a time of such deep divisiveness in Israel-Gaza–and such deep divisiveness in thinking and talking about the issues globally–we were inspired to hear about Joel's four Compassionate Listening Journeys to Israel and Palestine between 2015 and 2019, as well as his Journey to Alabama in January 2020. During these trips, he recorded and transcribed more than 40 listening sessions that form the basis for public presentations designed to humanize the “other” and help local audiences recognize our common humanity and shared values of people across geo-political divides. We sure need approaches like this right now and are grateful to Joel and the Compassionate Learning Project for their valuable work. f you're interested in hearing more from Joel Berman and the work he is very passionate about, read some of his articles here: A Third Way to Think About Israel and Palestine, Journey to Alabama with The Compassionate Listening Project   Thank you for listening! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/nextgenpolitics/message

Joel Berman is a practitioner of Compassionate Listening (compassionatelistening.org). Joel has travelled to the Middle East and talked with Israelis and Palestinians about their experiences and grievances. Topics discussed: Joel's experiences in the Middle East; what the Compassionate Listening methodology entails; the bravery required for conflict resolution work; and both of our experiences being introverts with a lot of social anxiety. Support the showTo get ad-free episodes, and more, get a premium subscription. To learn more about the show, go to behavior-podcast.com. I'm on Twitter at @apokerplayer. See a summary of my work.

In this episode, Jenn Lozano and board member Ann Stevens explore the art of listening in an Unbound session or simply to a friend or someone in need.Ann describes three overall ways one can respond when listening to hard things shared. Responses of fear or pride may be human responses, but God will give us grace to respond in humility, extending compassion to the individual receiving prayer. Join them as Ann shares the importance of taking personal time prior to an Unbound ministry session to seek the Lord and meditate, even briefly, on a passage from Matthew 7. She reminds us about the depth and unlimited nature of God's forgiveness.There is the “small story,” and the “big story.” The small story being the details of a prayer recipient's account and the big story of God's power forgiveness and the ability to move into the bigger place of what God is doing.Ann speaks about the importance of staying present in the moment and being aware of one's own body language so the recipient feels heard.The idea of redirecting within an Unbound session is discussed, with Jenn giving an example of a time when she was leading and a recipient withdrew because they felt unheard in the moment. Listening is an art and tips are provided to be compassionate without getting stuck rehashing the hard things someone has been through. Ann shares a personal example of a time that she received compassion during a therapy session and describes how the empathy shown by the therapist helped her feel heard in the moment. The biblical account of the disciples on the road to Emmaus is explored, showing how Jesus came alongside the disciples and, after listening to their story, helped draw them out of their small story into the bigger picture of what God was doing. Ann concludes with the reminder that as we remember God's unlimited compassion and mercy for each of us personally, we can through the Holy Spirit not judge and can help a prayer recipient step into recognizing God's big story. Find a great talk by Fr. Boniface Hicks that also teaches on listening.Join us at one of our Freedom in Christ conferencesSupport our mission and donate today!Check out Unbound and find other resourcesRelease: November 2023Music by Christian HarperArtwork by Rosemary Strohm at Command-S

How to Discover the Buyer Using Compassionate Listening #499 I have a point of view on selling that may catch you off guard. Just like social work, nursing, or counseling, I see selling as a helping profession.  The way I see it, as sellers, it's our responsibility to relieve the suffering of our customers and clients. Each prospect you meet has some unfulfilled need or desire that greatly pains both them and their organizations. The way master sellers can assuage this suffering is to listen and to listen with compassion. Instead of guessing what's troubling them, ask and they will tell you what it is they want and they need. Too often sellers are quick to jump the gun and talk about their stuff when it would make more sense to shut up and let them talk.  How to discover the buyer with compassionate listening. That's the topic for today. Sales Babble shares selling secrets for non-sellers.  Masterful selling is understanding what buyers want, discerning if you can help,  showing what you have and helping them to make a decision that is good for their business and yours. See https://salesbabble.com I've interviewed 100s of sales experts and discuss all things sales: prospecting, qualifying, value propositions, presentations, demos, closing, generating referrals, earning references, upselling, marketing, lead generation, copywriting, and most important the right selling mindset. Stop fearing sales and embrace it. This is a production of Habanero Media https://habaneromedia.net      

Dr. Kathleen Coyne grew up among the indigenous peoples of Northern Canada, which set her on a lifelong journey as a community development expert and an advocate for equity and justice, especially with those who are on the margins. She's also deeply committed to the spiritual path of Christian meditation. In this beautiful, heart-opening conversation, Kathleen shares how the spiritual practice of contemplative, heart-centered compassion and listening provides a powerful and grounded way to engage the needs of the most vulnerable. RESOURCES: Make a tax-deductible donation to support this nonprofit podcast: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/donate/ Earth & Spirit Center homepage: https://www.earthandspiritcenter.org/ Center for Applied Mindfulness homepage: https://www.instituteforappliedmindfulness.org/ Upcoming virtual retreat Kathleen will lead with the Sisters of Charity of Nazareth: “Listening as Sanctuary: Introduction to Compassionate Listening as Contemplative Practice.” https://nazarethretreatcenterky.org/programs/391/listening-as-sanctuary-virtual/ Kathleen's bio: https://nazarethretreatcenterky.org/teachers/392/kathleen-coyne-medes-edd/ syiyaya Reconciliation Movement, supporting dialogue between Indigenous and non-Indigenous people on British Columbia's Sunshine Coast: https://syiyayareconciliation.ca/ Compassionate Listening Project: https://www.compassionatelistening.org/ Compassionate Integrity Training: https://www.compassionateintegrity.org/ Boundless Compassion: https://www.boundlesscompassion.org/

Today on the Leadership Tales Podcast, we've got a double header! Tom Kaden and Michael Gingerich are the co-founders of Someone To Tell It To, a non-profit organization they created to help others cultivate meaningful relationships through compassionate listening, training, and education. They support so many people who are going through trauma and difficult times. Their style is to listen in pairs which I find fascinating. Overall I love their listening-focused mission and their goal of addressing loneliness to be deeply inspiring. It's evident from hearing testimonials that Tom and Michael's approach is deeply impactful. Really listening to people has the power to make all the difference in their lives, and they illustrate this well with a true story that made me emotional hearing it. There's huge value to be gained from listening to this episode. If you want to learn how to really make someone feel heard, you're going to want to tune in and hear how Tom and Michael approach listening. Links Mentioned:Someone To Tell It ToMichael Gingerich on LinkedInTom Kaden on LinkedIn

Have you ever noticed on the sdicompanions.org website, a small purple chat bubble that follows you in the lower-right hand corner of the screen? It looks like this: The ‘SDI Chat' feature is there to assist you with questions you might have about most things related to our website, how to do things like renew your Membership, access a Webinar. And, lest you think it's a virtual assistant AI robot, oh no, there is a live, breathing human being on the other end of that chat. And his name is Ryan! Ryan Hinson is our Technical Support Assistant, and I thought it would be fun to talk with him and give the opportunity for you to get to know him a little bit. Ryan is interesting and thoughtful and has the perfect calm, unflappable demeanor for dealing with our Members' technical issues and helping them find and do what they need. I personally promise you will learn something new and interesting in this conversation. Ryan Hinson (he/him) brings his skill and patience as a technology literacy professional to the Technology Support Position. He has two decades of experience in online teaching, educational writing, tutoring, and tech support, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Outside of this professional role, Ryan enjoys growing hot peppers and native fruits, foraging, cooking, and playing video games.

A sharing of my journey into presence. Compassionate Listening & Sharing: For support & guidance with your present moment journey including workshops and one to one sessions: https://compassionatelisteningsharing.co.uk/ Support: If you have the desire to give and further support this content, you can check out the links below. Your donation will go towards my self-care, everyday living and audio & video equipment. But just know that you listening is support enough! Paypal, Debit or Credit Card: https://bit.ly/31GnqUO Cash App: £1truebeing Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/uncoveringtruebeing Twitter/Instagram : Uncovering True Being **These Audios are also available on YouTube** **Nothing I talk about are my ideas or pointings but learned through spiritual teachers such as Eckhart Tolle and Mooji, among others**

A sharing of my journey into presence. Compassionate Listening & Sharing: For support & guidance with your present moment journey including workshops and one to one sessions: https://compassionatelisteningsharing.co.uk/ Support: If you have the desire to give and further support this content, you can check out the links below. Your donation will go towards my self-care, everyday living and audio & video equipment. But just know that you listening is support enough! Paypal, Debit or Credit Card: https://bit.ly/31GnqUO Cash App: £1truebeing Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/uncoveringtruebeing Twitter/Instagram : Uncovering True Being **These Audios are also available on YouTube** **Nothing I talk about are my ideas or pointings but learned through spiritual teachers such as Eckhart Tolle and Mooji, among others**

A sharing of my journey into presence. Compassionate Listening & Sharing: For support & guidance with your present moment journey including workshops and one to one sessions: https://compassionatelisteningsharing.co.uk/ Support: If you have the desire to give and further support this content, you can check out the links below. Your donation will go towards my self-care, everyday living and audio & video equipment. But just know that you listening is support enough! Paypal, Debit or Credit Card: https://bit.ly/31GnqUO Cash App: £1truebeing Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/uncoveringtruebeing Twitter/Instagram : Uncovering True Being **These Audios are also available on YouTube** **Nothing I talk about are my ideas or pointings but learned through spiritual teachers such as Eckhart Tolle and Mooji, among others**

I'm excited to be celebrating 100 episodes of Co-creating Peace! I am so grateful to all you loyal listeners & patrons for the continued success of this podcast. Many of you have reached out to me with feedback & ideas for topics; some have requested advice, communication coaching, or other services. It's been so great to connect with all of you! I look forward to our continued connection & to being of service through this podcast and my other work. Welcome to "From Drama Triangle to Circle of Empowerment"  Episode #100 of Co-creating Peace.I'm delighted to have Susan Partnow join me again. While discussing Compassionate Listening in Episodes #95 & #96, Susan briefly referenced the drama triangle. Then, in Episode #97, Fleet Maull mentioned the drama triangle as well. I realized that this is a phenomenon that is so often present in conflict dynamics and so often the cause of conflict, that I need to have an episode of this podcast that focuses on the Drama Triangle so we can learn more about it and how to work constructively with our tendency to engage at that level. Susan Partnow is well-versed on the drama triangle and how to transform it into a circle of empowerment, so I invited her to return to share more of her wisdom with us.Highlights of our conversation include:The 3 roles in the drama triangle and how they interact (We all step into one of these roles from time to time.)How to bring mindfulness to the role we've assumed in the drama triangleHow to move from the drama triangle into the circle of empowermentHow to invite others to join us in moving from the drama triangle into the circle of empowermentSusan's 5-session “Intro to Compassionate Listening” class, which includes working with the Drama Triangle, begins Jan. 12th. Register at compassionatelistening.org. You can find additional information and background on the Drama Triangle at karpmandramatriangle.com.Susan Partnow, M.A., has catalyzed social transformation and worked to heal the world ‘from the inside out' through The Compassionate Listening Project (TCLP) for over 35 years. She is Co-founder of Conversation Cafes, Let's Talk America, Global Citizen Journey and Seattle Restorative Justice.Please support Co-creating Peace:Subscribe to Co-creating Peace on your favorite podcast providerSend me your ideas for topics and guests or be a guest to talk about your communication or conflict resolution challenges and receive free communication coaching.Share on social media, and tell the world about Co-creating Peace! Become a patron at www.patreon.com/CocreatingPeaceContact Kathleen Oweegon at: oweegon@bridgesofpeace.com to share your ideas and feedback for this show. You can receive a free 30-minute communication coaching session by being a guest on Co-creating Peace to talk about your communication challenges and receive Kathleen's suggestions on the air. Visit BridgesofPeace.com to learn more about Kathleen and her work.

A sharing of my journey into presence and readings from the book Karma by Sadhguru. Compassionate Listening & Sharing: For support & guidance with your present moment journey including workshops and one to one sessions: https://compassionatelisteningsharing.co.uk/ Support: If you have the desire to give and further support this content, you can check out the links below. Your donation will go towards my self-care, everyday living and audio & video equipment. But just know that you listening is support enough! Paypal, Debit or Credit Card: https://bit.ly/31GnqUO Cash App: £1truebeing Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/uncoveringtruebeing Twitter/Instagram : Uncovering True Being **These Audios are also available on YouTube** **Nothing I talk about are my ideas or pointings but learned through spiritual teachers such as Eckhart Tolle and Mooji, among others**

A sharing of my journey into presence and readings from the book Karma by Sadhguru. Compassionate Listening & Sharing: For support & guidance with your present moment journey including workshops and one to one sessions: https://compassionatelisteningsharing.co.uk/ Support: If you have the desire to give and further support this content, you can check out the links below. Your donation will go towards my self-care, everyday living and audio & video equipment. But just know that you listening is support enough! Paypal, Debit or Credit Card: https://bit.ly/31GnqUO Cash App: £1truebeing Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/uncoveringtruebeing Twitter/Instagram : Uncovering True Being **These Audios are also available on YouTube** **Nothing I talk about are my ideas or pointings but learned through spiritual teachers such as Eckhart Tolle and Mooji, among others**

This is an early broadcast  - instead of airing it on the weekend as I usually do, I wanted to air it before Thanksgiving, for those of you who may be wondering how to have non-contentious family conversations at Thanksgiving – or any other holiday for that matter, especially during times like we're in now, where there are strong and opposing feelings and opinions nationwide about our political arena, human rights and other current national issues. My guest Susan Partnow has some tools and ideas to share with you to help set the tone for more compassionate conversations, and to help you navigate to more peaceful waters when conversations become turbulent.Welcome to Part 2 of “The Heart is our Compass:  Compassionate Listening in Polarized Times”, Episode #96 of Co-creating Peace, a series about conscious communication and conflict transformation.Last week, in Part 1, Susan Partnow told us about the origin of Compassionate Listening, its five core practices and how we can cultivate compassion.In this episode, we discuss how to bring Compassionate Listening into your daily life and how to use Compassionate Listening practices in contentious situations, including those you may find yourself in with your family over the Thanksgiving holiday.To learn more about Compassionate Listening and the Compassionate Listening Project, visit www.compassionatelistening.org. To contact Susan Partnow, email her at: susanpartnow@gmail.comI hope you have a peaceful and joy-filled Thanksgiving. Please know that I am thankful for each and every one of you. Your listener-ship and your patronage mean the world to me. Thank you!Contact Kathleen Oweegon at: oweegon@bridgesofpeace.com to share your ideas and feedback for this show. You can receive a free 30-minute communication coaching session by being a guest on Co-creating Peace to talk about your communication challenges and receive Kathleen's suggestions on the air. Visit BridgesofPeace.com to learn more about Kathleen and her work.

Each of us has a yearning to be deeply heard, but few of us know how to actually do that for others. Fortunately, there is a beautiful process called Compassionate Listening, which anyone can easily learn to do.Enjoy “The Heart is our Compass: Compassionate Listening in Polarized Times, Part 1”, Episode #95 of Co-creating Peace, a series about conscious communication & conflict transformation.This is the first of a 2-part interview with Susan Partnow about Compassionate Listening. Susan works closely with Leah Green, founder of The Compassionate Listening Project as the Coordinator for the Advanced Compassionate Listening Training and a mentor for those who seek certification as a Compassionate Listening facilitator. In this episode, we talk about the origin of Compassionate Listening, its five core practices and how we can cultivate compassion. Join us on Wednesday, the day before Thanksgiving, for an early broadcast of Part 2 of this conversation where Susan and I will talk about how to bring Compassionate Listening into your daily life and how to use Compassionate Listening in contentious conversations, including those you may find yourself in with your family over the Thanksgiving holiday, especially amidst the discordant political climate we are in.Susan Partnow, M.A., has catalyzed social transformation and worked to heal the world ‘from the inside out' through The Compassionate Listening Project (TCLP) for over 35 years from Africa and India to Guatemala, Cuba to Japan.To learn more about the Compassionate Listening Project visit www.compassionatelistening.org. To contact Susan Partnow directly, email her at: susanpartnow@gmail.com.Please support Co-creating Peace by:Subscribing to Co-creating Peace on your favorite podcast providerSending me your ideas for topics and guests or be a guest to talk about your communication or conflict resolution challenges and receive free communication coaching.Sharing on social media & tell the world about Co-creating Peace!  Becoming a patron at www.patreon.com/CocreatingPeace Contact Kathleen Oweegon at: oweegon@bridgesofpeace.com to share your ideas and feedback for this show. You can receive a free 30-minute communication coaching session by being a guest on Co-creating Peace to talk about your communication challenges and receive Kathleen's suggestions on the air. Visit BridgesofPeace.com to learn more about Kathleen and her work.

A sharing of my journey into presence and readings from the book Karma by Sadhguru. Compassionate Listening & Sharing: For support & guidance with your present moment journey including workshops and one to one sessions: https://compassionatelisteningsharing.co.uk/ Support: If you have the desire to give and further support this content, you can check out the links below. Your donation will go towards my self-care, everyday living and audio & video equipment. But just know that you listening is support enough! Paypal, Debit or Credit Card: https://bit.ly/31GnqUO Cash App: £1truebeing Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/uncoveringtruebeing Twitter/Instagram : Uncovering True Being **These Audios are also available on YouTube** **Nothing I talk about are my ideas or pointings but learned through spiritual teachers such as Eckhart Tolle and Mooji, among others**

A sharing of my journey into presence and readings from the book Karma by Sadhguru. Compassionate Listening & Sharing: For support & guidance with your present moment journey including workshops and one to one sessions: https://compassionatelisteningsharing.co.uk/ Support: If you have the desire to give and further support this content, you can check out the links below. Your donation will go towards my self-care, everyday living and audio & video equipment. But just know that you listening is support enough! Paypal, Debit or Credit Card: https://bit.ly/31GnqUO Cash App: £1truebeing Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/uncoveringtruebeing Twitter/Instagram : Uncovering True Being **These Audios are also available on YouTube** **Nothing I talk about are my ideas or pointings but learned through spiritual teachers such as Eckhart Tolle and Mooji, among others**

A sharing of my journey into presence and readings from the book A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. Compassionate Listening & Sharing: For support & guidance with your present moment journey including workshops and one to one sessions: https://compassionatelisteningsharing.co.uk/ Support: If you have the desire to give and further support this content, you can check out the links below. Your donation will go towards my self-care, everyday living and audio & video equipment. But just know that you listening is support enough! Paypal, Debit or Credit Card: https://bit.ly/31GnqUO Cash App: £1truebeing
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A sharing of my journey into presence and readings from the book A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. Compassionate Listening & Sharing: For support & guidance with your present moment journey including workshops and one to one sessions: https://compassionatelisteningsharing.co.uk/ Support: If you have the desire to give and further support this content, you can check out the links below. Your donation will go towards my self-care, everyday living and audio & video equipment. But just know that you listening is support enough! Paypal, Debit or Credit Card: https://bit.ly/31GnqUO Cash App: £1truebeing
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Most people break communication down into two activities—speaking and listening. But how you do each can make all the difference in your marriage. And guess what? Very few of us actually learn how to do either effectively. What generally happens is you listen to respond. Which means you aren't listening deeply, and this is how […] The post Listening is Good, Compassionate Listening is Better appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.

A sharing of my journey into presence and readings from the book A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. Compassionate Listening & Sharing: For support & guidance with your present moment journey including workshops and one to one sessions: https://compassionatelisteningsharing.co.uk/ Support: If you have the desire to give and further support this content, you can check out the links below. Your donation will go towards my self-care, everyday living and audio & video equipment. But just know that you listening is support enough! Paypal, Debit or Credit Card: https://bit.ly/31GnqUO Cash App: £1truebeing Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/uncoveringtruebeing Twitter/Instagram : Uncovering True Being **These Audios are also available on YouTube** **Nothing I talk about are my ideas or pointings but learned through spiritual teachers such as Eckhart Tolle and Mooji, among others**

A sharing of my journey into presence and readings from the book A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. Compassionate Listening & Sharing: For support & guidance with your present moment journey including workshops and one to one sessions: https://compassionatelisteningsharing.co.uk/ Support: If you have the desire to give and further support this content, you can check out the links below. Your donation will go towards my self-care, everyday living and audio & video equipment. But just know that you listening is support enough! Paypal, Debit or Credit Card: https://bit.ly/31GnqUO Cash App: £1truebeing Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/uncoveringtruebeing Twitter/Instagram : Uncovering True Being **These Audios are also available on YouTube** **Nothing I talk about are my ideas or pointings but learned through spiritual teachers such as Eckhart Tolle and Mooji, among others**

A sharing of my journey into presence and readings from the book A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. Compassionate Listening & Sharing For support & guidance with your present moment journey including workshops and one to one sessions: https://compassionatelisteningsharing.co.uk/ Support: If you have the desire to give and further support this content, you can check out the links below. Your donation will go towards my self-care, everyday living and audio & video equipment. But just know that you listening is support enough! Paypal, Debit or Credit Card: https://bit.ly/31GnqUO Cash App: £1truebeing Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/uncoveringtruebeing Twitter/Instagram : Uncovering True Being **These Audios are also available on YouTube** **Nothing I talk about are my ideas or pointings but learned through spiritual teachers such as Eckhart Tolle and Mooji, among others**

A sharing of my journey into presence and readings from the book A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. Compassionate Listening & Sharing For support & guidance with your present moment journey including workshops and one to one sessions: https://compassionatelisteningsharing.co.uk/ Support: If you have the desire to give and further support this content, you can check out the links below. Your donation will go towards my self-care, everyday living and audio & video equipment. But just know that you listening is support enough! Paypal, Debit or Credit Card: https://bit.ly/31GnqUO Cash App: £1truebeing Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/uncoveringtruebeing Twitter/Instagram : Uncovering True Being **These Audios are also available on YouTube** **Nothing I talk about are my ideas or pointings but learned through spiritual teachers such as Eckhart Tolle and Mooji, among others**

A sharing of my journey into presence and readings from the book A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. Compassionate Listening & Sharing For support & guidance with your present moment journey including workshops and one to one sessions: https://compassionatelisteningsharing.co.uk/ Support: If you have the desire to give and further support this content, you can check out the links below. Your donation will go towards my self-care, everyday living and audio & video equipment. But just know that you listening is support enough! Paypal, Debit or Credit Card: https://bit.ly/31GnqUO Cash App: £1truebeing Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/uncoveringtruebeing Twitter/Instagram : Uncovering True Being **These Audios are also available on YouTube** **Nothing I talk about are my ideas or pointings but learned through spiritual teachers such as Eckhart Tolle and Mooji, among others**

Wyn & Kate explore compassion, for ourselves and for others.  They dive under the noise to see what's possible when we listen for understanding, and from that space, our need to defend and fix fall away.  And what's left is connection and compassion.   If you have any questions or comments for Wyn or Kate, please email us! Also, if you have a topic or question that you would like us to chat about, please reach out!  We'd love to hear it! wyn@wynning.co.uk kate@katerobertscoaching.com

Could all of our relationship challenges be eliminated if we had the ability to be a compassionate listener? When we can listen to the one "voice" of Spirit speaking to us through everyone and all of life, we are on the fastest path to our healing, our awakening, and our liberation. A Course in Miracles tells us our relationships are our best tool for healing our mind. Without the skill of compassionate listening, relationships are a difficult maze of dead ends and repeating the same errors. A Course in Miracles tells us how to rise above the battleground, if we're willing to listen and practice. In this week's episode, Jennifer Hadley shares her own experience of developing the skill of compassionate listening and the miracles it has brought in her relationships. Everything is teaching us-are we listening? Each week, Jennifer offers helpful tips and clear tools to aid us in a practical application of these ACIM teachings in order to truly live A Course in Miracles. Now is the time for us to choose to walk the talk and live the Love! To learn more about A Course in Miracles, please visit JenniferHadley.com.Originally aired 10/11/2016

A sharing of my journey into presence and readings from the book A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. Compassionate Listening & Sharing For support & guidance with your present moment journey including workshops and one to one sessions: https://compassionatelisteningsharing.co.uk/ Support: If you have the desire to give and further support this content, you can check out the links below. Your donation will go towards my self-care, everyday living and audio & video equipment. But just know that you listening is support enough! Paypal, Debit or Credit Card: https://bit.ly/31GnqUO Cash App: £1truebeing Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/uncoveringtruebeing Twitter/Instagram : Uncovering True Being **These Audios are also available on YouTube** **Nothing I talk about are my ideas or pointings but learned through spiritual teachers such as Eckhart Tolle and Mooji, among others**

A sharing of my journey into presence and readings from the book A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. Compassionate Listening & Sharing For support & guidance with your present moment journey including workshops and one to one sessions: https://compassionatelisteningsharing.co.uk/ Support: If you have the desire to give and further support this content, you can check out the links below. Your donation will go towards my self-care, everyday living and audio & video equipment. But just know that you listening is support enough! Become a monthly supporter via Paypal, Debit or Credit Card: https://bit.ly/31GnqUO Cash App: £1truebeing Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/uncoveringtruebeing Twitter/Instagram : Uncovering True Being **These Audios are also available on YouTube** **Nothing I talk about are my ideas or pointings but learned through spiritual teachers such as Eckhart Tolle and Mooji, among others**

A sharing of my journey into presence and readings from the book A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. Compassionate Listening & Sharing For support & guidance with your present moment journey including workshops and one to one sessions: https://compassionatelisteningsharing.co.uk/ Support: If you have the desire to give and further support this content, you can check out the links below. Your donation will go towards my self-care, everyday living and audio & video equipment. But just know that you listening is support enough! Become a monthly supporter via Paypal, Debit or Credit Card: https://bit.ly/31GnqUO Cash App: £1truebeing Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/uncoveringtruebeing Twitter/Instagram : Uncovering True Being **These Audios are also available on YouTube** **Nothing I talk about are my ideas or pointings but learned through spiritual teachers such as Eckhart Tolle and Mooji, among others**

A sharing of my journey into presence and readings from the book A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. Compassionate Listening & Sharing For support & guidance with your present moment journey including workshops and one to one sessions: https://compassionatelisteningsharing.co.uk/ Journal & Website: https://bit.ly/3pwuBXO Support: If you have the desire to give and further support this content, you can check out the links below. Your donation will go towards my self-care, everyday living and audio & video equipment. But just know that you listening is support enough! Become a monthly supporter via Paypal, Debit or Credit Card: https://bit.ly/31GnqUO Cash App: £1truebeing Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/uncoveringtruebeing Twitter/Instagram : Uncovering True Being **These Audios are also available on YouTube** **Nothing I talk about are my ideas or pointings but learned through spiritual teachers such as Eckhart Tolle and Mooji, among others**

A sharing of my journey into presence and readings from the book A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. Compassionate Listening & Sharing For support & guidance with your present moment journey including workshops and one to one sessions: https://compassionatelisteningsharing.co.uk/ Journal & Website: https://bit.ly/3pwuBXO Support: If you have the desire to give and further support this content, you can check out the links below. Your donation will go towards my self-care, everyday living and audio & video equipment. But just know that you listening is support enough! Become a monthly supporter via Paypal, Debit or Credit Card: https://bit.ly/31GnqUO Cash App: £1truebeing Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/uncoveringtruebeing Twitter/Instagram : Uncovering True Being **These Audios are also available on YouTube** **Nothing I talk about are my ideas or pointings but learned through spiritual teachers such as Eckhart Tolle and Mooji, among others**

A sharing of my journey into presence and readings from the book A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. Compassionate Listening & Sharing For support & guidance with your present moment journey including workshops and one to one sessions: https://compassionatelisteningsharing.co.uk/ Journal & Website: https://bit.ly/3pwuBXO Support: If you have the desire to give and further support this content, you can check out the links below. Your donation will go towards my self-care, everyday living and audio & video equipment. But just know that you listening is support enough! To donate or become a monthly supporter via Paypal, Debit or Credit Card: https://bit.ly/31GnqUO Donate via Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/uncoveringtruebeing Twitter/Instagram : Uncovering True Being **These Audios are also available on YouTube** **Nothing I talk about are my ideas or pointings but learned through spiritual teachers such as Eckhart Tolle and Mooji, among others**

A sharing of my journey into presence and readings from the book A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. Compassionate Listening & Sharing For support & guidance with your present moment journey including workshops and one to one sessions: https://compassionatelisteningsharing.co.uk/ Journal & Website: https://bit.ly/3pwuBXO Support: If you have the desire to give and further support this content, you can check out the links below. Your donation will go towards my self-care, everyday living and audio & video equipment. But just know that you listening is support enough! To donate or become a monthly supporter via Paypal, Debit or Credit Card: https://bit.ly/31GnqUO Donate via Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/uncoveringtruebeing Twitter/Instagram : Uncovering True Being **These Audios are also available on YouTube** **Nothing I talk about are my ideas or pointings but learned through spiritual teachers such as Eckhart Tolle and Mooji, among others**

A sharing of my journey into presence and readings from the book A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. Compassionate Listening & Sharing For support & guidance with your present moment journey including workshops and one to one sessions: https://compassionatelisteningsharing.co.uk/ Journal & Website: https://bit.ly/3pwuBXO Support: If you have the desire to give and further support this content, you can check out the links below. Your donation will go towards my self-care, everyday living and audio & video equipment. But just know that you listening is support enough! To donate or become a monthly supporter via Paypal, Debit or Credit Card: https://bit.ly/31GnqUO Donate via Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/uncoveringtruebeing Twitter/Instagram : Uncovering True Being **These Audios are also available on YouTube** **Nothing I talk about are my ideas or pointings but learned through spiritual teachers such as Eckhart Tolle and Mooji, among others**

A sharing of my journey into presence and readings from the book A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. Compassionate Listening & Sharing For support & guidance with your present moment journey including workshops and one to one sessions: https://compassionatelisteningsharing.co.uk/ Journal & Website: https://bit.ly/3pwuBXO Support: If you have the desire to give and further support this content, you can check out the links below. Your donation will go towards my self-care, everyday living and audio & video equipment. But just know that you listening is support enough! To donate or become a monthly supporter via Paypal, Debit or Credit Card: https://bit.ly/31GnqUO Donate via Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/uncoveringtruebeing Twitter/Instagram : Uncovering True Being **These Audios are also available on YouTube** **Nothing I talk about are my ideas or pointings but learned through spiritual teachers such as Eckhart Tolle and Mooji, among others**

Apologies for the quieter than usual sound on this episode. A sharing of my journey into presence and readings from the book A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. Compassionate Listening & Sharing: For support & guidance with your present moment journey including workshops and one to one sessions: https://compassionatelisteningsharing.co.uk/ Journal & Website: https://bit.ly/3pwuBXO Support: If you have the desire to give and further support this content, you can check out the links below. Your donation will go towards my self-care, everyday living and audio & video equipment. But just know that you listening is support enough! To donate or become a monthly supporter via Paypal, Debit or Credit Card: https://bit.ly/31GnqUO Donate via Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/uncoveringtruebeing Twitter/Instagram : Uncovering True Being **These Audios are also available on YouTube** **Nothing I talk about are my ideas or pointings but learned through spiritual teachers such as Eckhart Tolle and Mooji, among others**

A sharing of my journey into presence and readings from the book A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. Compassionate Listening & Sharing For support & guidance with your present moment journey including workshops and one to one sessions: https://compassionatelisteningsharing.co.uk/ Journal & Website: https://bit.ly/3pwuBXO 
 Support: If you have the desire to give and further support this content, you can check out the links below. Your donation will go towards my self-care, everyday living and audio & video equipment. But just know that you listening is support enough! To donate or become a monthly supporter via Paypal, Debit or Credit Card: https://bit.ly/31GnqUO 
 Donate via Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/uncoveringtruebeing Twitter/Instagram : Uncovering True Being 
 **These Audios are also available on YouTube** 
 **Nothing I talk about are my ideas or pointings but learned through spiritual teachers such as Eckhart Tolle and Mooji, among others**

An introduction to the Compassionate Listening & Sharing service. For support & guidance with your present moment journey including one to one sessions: https://compassionatelisteningsharing.co.uk/ Support: If you have the desire to give and further support this content, you can check out the links below. Your donation will go towards my self-care, everyday living and audio & video equipment. But just know that you listening is support enough! To donate or become a monthly supporter via Paypal, Debit or Credit Card: https://bit.ly/31GnqUO Donate via Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/uncoveringtruebeing Journal & website: https://bit.ly/3pwuBXO Twitter/Instagram : Uncovering True Being **These Audios are also available on YouTube** **Nothing I talk about are my ideas or pointings but learned through spiritual teachers such as Eckhart Tolle and Mooji, among others**

A sharing of my journey into presence and readings from the book A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle. Compassionate Listening & Sharing For support & guidance with your present moment journey including one to one sessions: https://compassionatelisteningsharing.co.uk/ Support: If you have the desire to give and further support this content, you can check out the links below. Your donation will go towards my self-care, everyday living and audio & video equipment. But just know that you listening is support enough! To donate or become a monthly supporter via Paypal, Debit or Credit Card: https://bit.ly/31GnqUO Donate via Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/uncoveringtruebeing Journal & website: https://bit.ly/3pwuBXO Twitter/Instagram : Uncovering True Being **These Audios are also available on YouTube** **Nothing I talk about are my ideas or pointings but learned through spiritual teachers such as Eckhart Tolle and Mooji, among others**

In today's episode, Matt and Fr. Boniface Hicks, OSB will be discussing Unbound Ministry and the Sacrament of Confession. How do these two powerful ministries fit together? This episode will be of great interest to Catholic priests, or any Catholic, and really anyone at all who's interested in conversion.Fr. Boniface Hicks is a Benedictine monk of Saint Vincent Archabbey and a Catholic priest. He's also the Director of Spiritual Formation and leads the Institute of Spiritual Formation at St. Vincent Seminary. He's co-authored two books, Spiritual Direction: A Guide for Sharing the Father's Love and Personal Prayer: A Guide for Receiving the Father's Love.A tremendous brother in Christ, he's a student of the human heart. He is both fascinated and drawn to the ways in which God's presence brings us healing in our hearts.  A glimpse at some of his wisdom from this powerful interview:When we recognize the infinite dignity and the mystery of the person, when we make room in our own hearts and allow ourselves to weep with those who weep and to rejoice with those who rejoice, as Saint Paul says, when I make room in my heart to be moved- then when I find ways to express that ... just these little expressions of our presence to the person really helps them to receive... all of that provides the kind of framework in which a lot of healing can take place.(Unbound Ministry) is such a beautiful opportunity to reverence the person, to hold them in their vulnerability, and hold them as the Father does, and then help them to see this is how they are eternally loved. This is the eternal love from which they were made. Find more about Fr Boniface at http://www.fatherboniface.org/wordpresshome/Enjoy his talk on Listening given at Sacred Heart Seminary for a general audience in 2019. Find us on FacebookFollow us on InstagramExplore with us on TwitterJoin our enewsVisit our websiteFind the book Unbound and moreSee more upcoming eventsRelease: February 2022Music by Christian Harper.Artwork by Rosemary Strohm at Command-S.

On January 22nd, Thich Nhat Hahn the Vietnamese Zen Buddhist monk and peace activists passed away in Hue Vietnam. He was 95 years old.  Links to Thich Nhat Hanh Obituary Tricycle Obituary New York Times Books Plum Village Plum Village app This is a production of Habanero Media 

Wednesday night meditation at Dhammaloka Centre with Sandra Henville on 08 December 2021. These ongoing guided meditation classes are suitable for both beginners and experienced meditators and offer an opportunity to ask questions in person or via live chat.  Visitors to Dhammaloka are invited to stay for tea after the class. More Care Group Teachings can be found here. Please support the BSWA in making teachings available for free online via Patreon. To find and download more precious Dhamma teachings, visit the BSWA teachings page: https://bswa.org/teachings/, choose the teaching you want and click on the audio to open it up on Podbean.

Blossom Your Awesome Podcast Episode #24 - back on the show we have Susan Partnow. Susan is a beacon of light and has been leading people to more loving connections for decades. She is a facilitator for the Compassionate Listening Project and has been doing this work all over the world.  We touched on Compassionate Listening in our first exchange together. You can listen here to Blossom Your Awesome Podcast Episode #9 - Compassionate Listening with Susan Partnow.In this follow up episode we go deeper with the power of compassionate listening and how bringing Loving Awareness to each and every encounter opens the gateway to profundity between you and those around you. Susan Partnow is a powerful light in a sometimes very hard and dark world where our interactions are so disjointed, misdirected and misconstrued. Understanding the shear power of listening can be the ultimate reward with all of those around us. It is a powerful exchange with a sentient being who is delightfully awake and lives it seems in a perpetual state of wakefulness and deep bliss. I'm so honored to have connected with her to not only feel firsthand the power of her wisdom and love, but to be able to share that love here on the Blossom Your Awesome Podcast. It is my sincere hope and even deeper knowing that there is some little bit of this dialogue big or small that will leave you touched and moved and inspired in some way.  Susan Partnow is a senior facilitator with the Compassionate Listening Project. Susan Partnow has been supporting individuals, families and organizations to transform their conflicts for over thirty years.  She has been certified as a mediator by the Snohomish Dispute Resolution Center since the 1990's.  She has also studied and now teaches Restorative Circle and Peacekeeping Circle practices.  She is a Sr. Facilitator for The Compassionate Listening Project and is a co-creator of their core practices and advanced trainings.  Susan served as a Sr. Organizational Development Consultant for Swedish/Providence for eight years, providing team building, strategic planning, change initiatives, coaching, mediation and facilitation to leaders across the system.  Prior to working with Swedish/Providence, Susan led Partnow Communications for over 25 years as a consultant specializing in team building, mediation, leadership development, and conflict management with public sector, private and non-profit organizations and individuals throughout Puget Sound.  Before that Susan was a certified speech pathologist working in hospital, clinic and home health settings. Susan has an M.A. in Communication Disorders from Northwestern University.  She is a member of various professional groups, including the national Organizational Development Network and American Society of Training and Development.  She is co-founder of Conversation Cafes, Seattle Restorative Justice and Global Citizen Journey and former Board member of NCDD (National Coalition on Dialogue & Deliberation.) Susan is author of Everyday Speaking for All Occasions (Doubleday books) and co-contributor of The Art of Compassionate Listening. Susan is especially drawn to bringing challenged individuals and groups together to release the energy locked in conflict to foster its transformation into creative new beginnings and deepened relations. You can find out more about Susan at her website - www.susanpartnow.com To check out my site Blossom Your Awesome click here.     

What is up you guys? Today's episode I dive pretty deep into the behavior and science behind compassionate listening and why it's important to practice. This brings me into the topic of increasing awareness which then heightens your intuition. Being an energy healer heightens and strengthens all of these but those aren't the only effects on the healer. I touch on the effects that energy healing has on the healer as well and to make sure to put yourself first always! Enjoy :)

I'm so excited to share this next episode of Elevate Your Vida, it is such an honor to feature Gabriela Blanco from Healing Parents. Gabriela shares her own story of motherhood, navigating new emotions that unlocked a new essence within her, and she expands on the concept that is Conscious Parenting. Rest assured that this is not only an episode for mothers, as I deeply resonated and felt moved by everything that Gabriela shared. This conversation will also inspire to explore your own “inner family system” that can support you in processing emotions and responding to life. If you feel called to I encourage you to share this episode with someone in your life who will also benefit from it.  Connect with our guest Gabriela Blanco: IG: @healingparents website: www.gabrielablanco.net FB: @gabrielahealingparents

Will Osmun, Ph.D., VP of Programming at Kids Food Basket in Grand Rapids, Michigan is passionate about addressing racism and hunger in the US. His professional work has focused on social equity issues through the lens of personal, community, and organizational change. Will has facilitated local, national, and international conversations, coached, and trained CEOs, executive teams, government agencies, nonprofit leaders, and community organizations on issues of poverty, hunger, racism, othering, bias, hiring, retention, inclusion, collaboration, and leadership. Will is trained in Empathic Listening and Motivational Interviewing and is certified in Compassionate Listening, Mediation, and Immunity to Change. Through coaching, speaking engagements, group facilitation, training, and panel discussions, he takes clients through a meaningful process of self-reflection, history, research, conflict repair, and authentic relationship building. Coaching and training sessions are customized to meet the specific needs, language, and frameworks necessary to create understanding and promote change. Will's primary focus is on the factors that create resistance to equity and entrench cultural dehumanization. He provides clients with practical methods to address and overcome internal and structural frameworks. Will is currently the VP of Programming: Expert in Residence at Kids' Food Basket, where he leads the programming team across four counties, including a 10-acre chemical-free farm. Before this role, he was the Chief Strategist for the Urban League of West Michigan, where he headed their programming team and led their Racial Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion work. He previously served as executive director of The SOURCE, an equity and employment-focused nonprofit, and as the State Director for United Healthcare's myCommunity Connect program in Detroit, Mi. Additionally, he spent 30 years working in for-profit industries, where he gained experience in manufacturing, management, and national sales and marketing. Will earned a MM from Aquinas College, an MS in Supply Chain Logistics from Michigan State University, and a MA and a Ph.D. in Leadership and Change from Antioch University. He is a 2011 graduate of Leadership Grand Rapids and a Marano Fellow of the Aspen Institutes Sector Skills Academy 2011. His dissertation is entitled: Hiring the “Other”—A Biographical Narrative Inquiry of Progressive Human Resource Professionals. Links Kids Food Basket Wicked Bridges --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/mursalata-muhammad/message

What is Deep Listening? It comes from the teachings of Buddhist Monk ticht nacht hahn. He says Deep Listening (or Compassionate Listening) is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart. ... You just listen with compassion and help him to suffer less. Take a few seconds to feel the power of those words….to empty their heart so they can suffer less. Now….feel the shift when we say…”To empty my own heart so I can suffer less.” I'd like to offer the suggestion that we LISTEN to our own voice…starting with the inner childhood messages for each of our types. Oh way be adults but we carry memories and messages from the very beginning of our lives. The childhood messages may come from a loved one, a parental figure, a teacher or a friend. Yet, the words themselves may have never actually been spoken and even beyond actually being said at all, we, as children, often create the belief in our own fragile minds through a filter we've already begun to create from our limited life experience. But early on, we all create a foundational message from which we begin to create our lives. For Enneagram type 1 the message was “It's not ok to make mistakes.” Type 1s….who told you it's not ok to make mistakes? And how did you feel when you do? Ashamed? Afraid? Who told you were anything less than you perfect love? Who made you feel that being LOVED depended on your being good? And who decided for you what “GOOD” looked like. Oh sweet child….you are GOOD because you are a living. Can you empty your heart just a little bit today? Can you listen DEEPLY with a loving voice? Say it out loud….I am not ashamed. I am not afraid. It's not up to me to prove my worth or my goodness. I am Good. #DeepListening #Enneagram #EnneagramPodcast #Enneagram1 #Enneagramtype1 #EnneagramChildhoodMessage #Mistakes #SufferLess #EmptyYourHeart #SelfTalk

Liz Spitzer & I discuss her work in the world in a two part interview. The second interview I'm labeling with a Trigger Warning because suicide ideation & childhood trauma are mentioned. Listen to one or both episodes to understand the impact of compassionate listening & how I support Liz into telling more of her story. From her website: Professional Life Coach, Speaker, Workshop Trainer, Mental Health First Aid Instructor, and Compassionate Listening Facilitator Trained through iPEC (Institute of Professional Excellence in Coaching) and their unique process known as Core Energy Coaching™, I help people get straight to the heart of the matter. As a Mental Health First Aid® Instructor, I teach people how to pay attention for the signs and symptoms of a few common mental illnesses, the warning signs of a mental health crisis, and I share effective steps that they can use to help talk with someone in need. As a Compassionate Listening Facilitator I teach workshops and host practice groups on the foundations and principles of Compassionate Listening. https://shareappreciation.org/ https://www.lizthelistener.com

On Episode #9 of the Blossom Your Awesome podcast we are talking about Compassionate Listening! Yes. One of my favorite topics. As you know I've written about compassionate listening extensively. We all know the power of listening and when we learn to exercise compassionate and listen from our heart we transform all of our relationships. My guest is Susan Partnow is a senior facilitator with the Compassionate Listening Project. Susan Partnow has been supporting individuals, families and organizations to transform their conflicts for over thirty years.  She has been certified as a mediator by the Snohomish Dispute Resolution Center since the 1990’s.  She has also studied and now teaches Restorative Circle and Peacekeeping Circle practices.  She is a Sr. Facilitator for The Compassionate Listening Project and is a co-creator of their core practices and advanced trainings.  Susan served as a Sr. Organizational Development Consultant for Swedish/Providence for eight years, providing team building, strategic planning, change initiatives, coaching, mediation and facilitation to leaders across the system.  Prior to working with Swedish/Providence, Susan led Partnow Communications for over 25 years as a consultant specializing in team building, mediation, leadership development, and conflict management with public sector, private and non-profit organizations and individuals throughout Puget Sound.  Before that Susan was a certified speech pathologist working in hospital, clinic and home health settings. Susan has an M.A. in Communication Disorders from Northwestern University.  She is a member of various professional groups, including the national Organizational Development Network and American Society of Training and Development.  She is co-founder of Conversation Cafes, Seattle Restorative Justice and Global Citizen Journey and former Board member of NCDD (National Coalition on Dialogue & Deliberation.) Susan is author of Everyday Speaking for All Occasions (Doubleday books) and co-contributor of The Art of Compassionate Listening. Susan is especially drawn to bringing challenged individuals and groups together to release the energy locked in conflict to foster its transformation into creative new beginnings and deepened relations. You can find out more about Susan at her website - www.susanpartnow.com 

Rambhoru Dasi was initiated in 1974 in Cologne, Germany, by Srila Prabhupada. After spending 26 years establishing and managing various temples, she started a decade of studying interfaith dialogue, practical theology, pastoral care, and religious education. Join us as we discuss her life and projects, and the role of counseling, chaplaincy, and emotional care in a spiritual society.

a In 1978 Australian Robina Courtin became one of the first westerners to be ordained as a Buddhist nun. Then a letter from a young prisoner in a California jail began a huge change in her own story (R)

Have you ever been accused of "marginally" listening? Not a great place to be, is it?

This week on Maximum Mom your host Elise Buie joined Karen Bonnell. Karen has over 30 years of experience working with couples and families facing transition, loss, growth and change. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Karen has been board certified and licensed as an Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner since 1982. Karen's work as a Collaborative Divorce Coach spurred her determination to write “The Co-Parenting Handbook” “ with Kristin Little, Child Specialist. Parents learn the best ways to support their children, strengthen their co-parenting, and discover the necessary tools to skillfully create a two-home family.As a teacher, trainer, facilitator, Karen played an instrumental role in developing the year-long facilitator training program for the Compassionate Listening Project. As a certified Compassionate Listening trainer, Karen utilizes this heart-centered approach to authentic speaking and capable listening used around the world in high-conflict situations such as Israel/Palestine. Her deep listening skills make all the difference working with co-parent pairs in conflict as they find their way through the pain of divorce into a future with optimism.To keep on maximizing your firm, stay connected!Facebook GroupFacebook PageYouTube channelLinkedInGuildSubscribe to Maximum Mom on your favorite podcast player so you never miss an episode!

Let's Get P'litical! That pun was so bad.Step 1: Look in the MirrorConsider your audience. Who are you talking to when you say political things? Are you saying it in a way that maximizes the odds that it will be heard?Cognitive Bias is a bitch. Become aware of it, notice when you're doing it, and fucking stop it.Blindly aligning to one side and vilifying the other is a problem, regardless of which side you're on.Your position/opinion is based on the information/beliefs/values you hold, which are based on YOUR experiences. Dig deep enough to find where you and the other person overlap, and start there.Pay attention to labels. How are you labeling the people on the other side? Would they label themselves that way? Are you dehumanizing them by making assumptions based on the camp they're in?What outcomes are you attached to? Are you motivated to make them more like you? Are you afraid of becoming more like them? What if your only motivation was to show up as your best self throughout the conversation?Step 2: Do the WorkOpen with a question, and follow up with more questions.Throw out labels and find a container you're both in.Practice with the small stuff: safe intimate relationships. Your children and parents. Your friend group. Practice doing this work in those relationships, so that when they start burning shit down, you'll already be in the habit of prioritizing connection over winning.What would you bring to a political conversation if stating/defending your position was off limits? Try that.TIME CODES:5:52 - IT'S NEVER OKAY TO BE A FUCKING RACIST. PERIOD.20:08 - The antidote to polarization is connection.22:09 - Find the human behind the political position.22:22 -

Yehudah Alan Winter was the first Zen student to live at Tassajara. He talks about that, being a nurse in Covid days, Compassionate Listening. and his and his wife's experience doing Your Personal Ceremony dot com.

Welcomed compassionate listening reminder from Thich Nhat Hanh, and a personal realisation to gift myself a compassion non-judgement ear too! Plus elaborating on Climate Neutral certification and celebrating Big Mamma and Ooh Cha Cha, two restaurant B Corps.

As humans, one of our greatest longings is to be heard. Through listening, we develop a certain connection to people around us in ways only possible through human interaction. These bonds help find solutions to most of the problems facing humanity.  The thing is, there are some issues that we can’t handle by ourselves. Yet, even our own immediate family, who might be our strongest support system, may not be able to help make sense of what we are going through in some areas of life. This is when we need SomeoneTo Tell It To, a non-profit organization striving to cultivate meaningful relationships through compassionate listening and trains others to do the same. They will listen to anyone, anywhere around the world. Michael Gingerich is passionate about fostering relationships of depth and about listening with intention to everyone he meets, both professionally and personally. He strives every day to be compassionate, gracious, generous, empathetic, and fully present wherever he is. He holds fast to a faith that teaches unconditional love, kindness, and humility. His heroes include Henri Nouwen and Fred (Mr.) Rogers. He finds the work and words of Dr. Brene Brown, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and the Dalai Lama to be foundational. As co-founder/co-CEO Tom Kaden’s hope is to create and foster relationships with his co-workers that are deep, authentic, genuine, compassionate, and caring, helping them be their very best selves. Essentially, practicing and cultivating what the organization of Someone To Tell It To preaches: everyone has a voice, everyone matters, and that we all need someone to tell it to in our lives. He wants to serve rather than be served and listening is the most important way of putting others’ needs ahead of his own.   In this episode, Michael and Tom share their life experiences of sacred, moving, meaningful, and beautiful stories of life and death in the people they listened to. That even in the midst of life’s difficult realities, people find consolation through compassionate listening. Essentially, share a message to everyone that regardless of who you are or what has happened, the act of kindness when done in love will always go a long way. And they underscore the fact that listening as a  transformative force is the solution the world faces.    “One of the things that we would like to start with people is to tell them and show them that everyone needs and we've already said it that everyone needs and wants to be heard. That is the name of our organization,it comes from a fundamental human need. And if we understand that and believe that we will begin to respect people more, will pay more attention to them, we will realize that we have more in common than we have that separates us, that we're all human.   - Michael Gingerich   Resources: Give the gift of compassionate listening. For your donations, click here: https://someonetotellitto.org/donate/   Listen In Notes:   02:09 - Tom’s challenging time when he needed someone to tell it to. Listening is considered one of the fundamental needs of a human being.   04:20 - The life-changing experience of having someone to tell it to. How did it form a seed that transformed other people’s lives?   07:17 - Recounting that very moment of realizing that other people also need relationships of depth and intimacy.    09:10 - How did the idea of putting a  non-profit organization come about?    12:23 - How does the business model reflect the goals of the non-profit organization?   14:44 - Number of people they listened to and listening to anyone for whatever reason.   15:17 - Recounting that sacred moment and sacred relationship where their work impacted both other people’s lives and their own.   18:28 - Listening can also be in written words, not spoken   19:58 - Creating a safe space for people to listen to. How to let someone talk without fear of being judged?   22:22 - Why they send out teams in pairs to listen to something painful and profound?   26:20 - How does listening look like when working with organizations with a lot of stakeholders to take into consideration   30:04 - Creating a better work environment for everyone.   33:31 - The need to allow every side to tell their story.    36:11 - Tips you can consider when creating  a safe and comfortable listening space for someone you listen to   37:48 - Talking about his upcoming book titled “In the Midst of Life.” How in our everyday life experiences, there are always things dying around us (not just life), and it is all about coming to terms with this reality.   40:51 - Looking back at some of the most sacred and meaningful listening stories that they’ve had.   45:03 - Relating one beautiful story of how their work in listening has transcended across people of all races and all religions.   48:57 - One inspiring message from listening to stories   50:45 - How you can donate to their organization. Click here: someonetotellitto.org     Key Takeaways:   “We've found over time that all of us truly do need that safe space, that safe person to whom  we can tell all and who will simply be with us.” - Tom Kaden   “What we see and hear most of all, through people listening to people is that they are lonely, and disconnected. We've each felt that too in various times, and places. And to have someone who recognizes that we have found what we've needed in one another and that affirmation was, just really confirming and wonderful, as well as the desire to help other people find it too because we knew that if we were feeling that there are a lot of other people who are feeling that need, as well.” - Tom Kaden   “We never wanted our mission to be transactional in nature; we always wanted to be relational. And so relationships take time and energy and investment...We had this desire just to truly serve people who were being marginalized and forgotten, about people who were being overlooked. - Tom Kaden   “Sometimes people, when they write, are actually more open and honest than when they speak.” - Michael Gingerich   “'A surefire way to get someone to talk is to ask them a question. But don't frame your questions as a form of judgment.”   - Tom Kaden   “One of the ways that we define listening is to know and to be known as we all want to be known. And we want to know others. And so if we can ask questions that draw people out and create that safety where people aren't threatened in any way, people want to divulge about the truth of their lives and the deeper things that are going on, the deeper matters of the heart.”   - Michael Gingerich   “We want to help work cultures be more caring, and compassionate and kind, to be fun, and really try to foster this environment that is enjoyable, that you could work towards common goals and objectives, and work hard. But you can do it in a way where you're finding a lot of satisfaction.”  - Michael Gingerich   “People don't always talk to you to hear your side of the story more often, people want to tell their own side of the story without interruption.” - Michael Gingerich   Just listen to others as you want them to listen to you.”  - Michael Gingerich   “Think about how you want to be treated in conversation. We all want to be treated with dignity and respect and vow to treat that person you're listening to in the same way. “ - Michael Gingerich Notes or Mentions:      “In the Midst of Life” - A yet to be published book about coming to terms with the reality of life and death. Watch out for it!   Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield Fred Rogers  Podcast interview with Raquel   Connect with Michael Gingerich and Tom Kaden: Someonetotellitto.org Facebook Twitter Instagram Connect with Raquel Ark: www.listeningalchemy.com Mobile: + 491732340722 contact@listeningalchemy.com LinkedIn

In this final episode of our 3-part patient advocacy series, I spoke with Caribou Founders, Christine Simone and Cory Blumenfeld. In this episode, we discussed:   :: why they chose to focus on patient advocacy   :: how they actively listened to both patients and patient advocates to bring the solutions to those who need them   :: the meaning behind the name Caribou   :: their hopes for the future of healthcare and patient advocacy   You can find more info on Caribou here. You can also find Caribou on Facebook and Twitter @getcaribou and IG @get_caribou.

Julian Silburn is a Didjeridu teacher, healer and performer with a passionate interest in Aboriginal culture and music. Through teaching, healing and performing Didjeridu (Yidaki), Julian aims to share the spirit respectfully and to connect people with nature through the various rhythms, songs and nature calls. Over the last 20 years Julian has collaborated with several Noongar and Arnhem Land Yolgnu Elders, both musically and culturally, and he feels honoured to have their approval and blessing to perform, heal and teach. Julian has conducted healing sessions and performances throughout U.S.A, Canada, Europe and Australia.Listen to my first episode with Julian here:https://stuartwatkins.org/podcast/julian-silburn/Follow Julian here:http://soundalchemy.com.au/about/With love,StuSupport the show (https://stuartwatkins.org/podcast/)

Honing your listening skills can be one of the greatest assets in your nutrition practice. Unfortunately, I've seen way too many RD's listen with the intent of waiting to interject with their expert opinion. This is a surefire way to lose clients.  On today’s episode, I share what “Compassionate Listening” is and 6 simple ways you can hone this skill right away!   WHAT YOU’LL LEARN IN THIS EPISODE Why you need to let go of being the expert, especially in the beginning stages of working with new clients. The importance of patience when clients are having trouble expressing their thoughts & feelings. Why you should never take things personally, even when a client's comments are directed towards you personally. How to use "reflective listening" to help your clients feel seen, heard, and understood.   FEATURED ON THE SHOW The “Charge What You’re Worth” private mentoring program Join my NEW Facebook Group “Money Mindset & Marketing for RD Entrepreneurs”  Grab a copy of the NEW Money Mindset Reset Workbook   SUBSCRIBE & REVIEW on Apple Podcasts! Are you subscribed to the podcast? If you’re not, I encourage you to do that today. You don’t want to miss an episode, so Click here to subscribe on Apple Podcasts!  

Laurie Archbold left her corporate job to move to Washington State to connect with nature more deeply and found something called the Compassionate Listening Project, a non profit that teaches powerful skills for peacemaking. Laurie quickly became a facilitator of this work herself, leading training sessions in the United States as well as Journeys, a conflict transformation workshop for Israelis and Palestinians. In this conversation, Laurie and Annmarie discuss what makes some listening “Compassionate” and how we can honor people by deeply listening to what they have to say. She also breaks down the 5 Practices of Compassionate Listening - 1) Cultivating Compassion, 2) Developing Fair Witness, 3) Respecting Self and Other, 4) Listening from the Heart and 5) Speaking from the Heart. Perhaps most powerful, Laurie encourages us to remember that ‘An enemy is someone’s story you haven’t heard.” Website: https://www.listeningwillow.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CompassionateListening Free Compassionate Listening Workshops: https://www.compassionatelistening.org/workshops

In this episode, Maggie shared a format she has created called Heart Opening Communication Circles that can be used in any relationship and is especially effective for families, groups, and even organizations. Tune into the show to learn how to start these circles and about the incredible relationships that result from adopting this kind of communication.

To connect with Gil: Website: gilbarsela.comInstagram: @gilbarsela.coaching To connect with Travis:Website: travisstock.comEmail: travisstock03@gmail.comInstagram: @travers03

How to be an effective listener and hold space for someone.

Karen has over 30 years of experience working with couples and families facing transition, loss, growth and change.  Her work as a Collaborative Divorce Coach spurred her determination to write “The Co-Parenting Handbook” with Kristin Little, Child Specialist. Parents learn the best ways to support their children, strengthen their co-parenting, and discover the necessary tools to skillfully create a two-home family.   “The Parenting Plan Workbook” followed with contributor Felicia Malsby Soleil, JD.  And most recently,  Karen and Patricia Papernow, PhD released The Stepfamily Handbook, for parents ready to date and hoping to one day successfully create a stepfamily.    As a teacher, trainer, facilitator, Karen played an instrumental role in developing the year-long facilitator training program for the Compassionate Listening Project. As a certified Compassionate Listening trainer, Karen utilizes this heart-centered approach to authentic speaking and capable listening used around the world in high-conflict situations such as Israel/Palestine. Her deep listening skills make all the difference working with co-parent pairs in conflict as they find their way through the pain of divorce into a future with optimism.   Listen in to hear Karen share: How to parallel parent if integrated co parenting is not possible When you should see a co parent coach How to know when kids are really struggling with divorce/restructuring of family How to know when kids are ready for you to introduce new partners into your family unit What to do when your partner is not capable of co parenting How reading the Co Parent Manual can improve, and potentially save, your marriage NOW   Links Mentioned: Connect with Karen: https://coachmediateconsult.com Subscribe to Karen’s Youtube channel Karen’s Book: The Co Parenting Handbook   Thank you to our sponsors: Hourglass Cosmetics: Get free shipping with your purchase of a full sized Caution Mascara at hourglasscosmetics.com/shameless and use the promo code SHAMELESS at checkout. Katie’s Crib podcast: Check out this new podcast hosted by new mom Katie Lowes, who played Quinn on the hit show Scandal.  Check out Katie’s Crib on shondaland.com or anywhere you listen to podcasts.       

September 16th 2018 - Way of Compassion : The Principle of Compassionate Listening (Tom Griffiths) by City Praise Centre

Have you ever wondered how some divorced couples make their co-parenting so seamless and cooperative? Christina interviews renowned Co-Parent Coach and author, Karen Bonnell, for tips on achieving co-parenting success. Christina Vinters is a nationally designated Chartered Mediator on a mission to inspire and facilitate healthy family transitions. She is an “ex” Divorce Lawyer (Non-Practicing Member of the Bar), Author of Pathways to Amicable Divorce, and the DIY Divorce Manual, and Peacemaking Business Consultant. Karen’s work as a Collaborative Divorce Coach spurred her determination to write “The Co-Parenting Handbook” “ with Kristin Little, Child Specialist.  Karen has over 30 years of experience working with couples and families facing transition, loss, growth and change. A graduate of the University of Michigan, Karen has been board certified and licensed as an Advanced Registered Nurse Practitioner since 1982. She served on the faculty of University of Michigan, Eastern Michigan University & Seattle Pacific University before beginning full-time private practice in 1984. She regularly writes for, speaks to and trains healthcare and legal professionals. As a certified Compassionate Listening trainer, Karen utilizes this heart-centered approach to authentic speaking and capable listening used around the world in high-conflict situations such as Israel/Palestine. Her deep listening skills make all the difference working with co-parent pairs in conflict as they find their way through the pain of divorce into a future with optimism. Guest Links: Website: https://coachmediateconsult.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pg/karenbonnellcmc/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/karenbonnellcmc  LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karenbonnell Modern Separations Links: Website: https://www.modernseparations.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/modernseparations Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/divorcewell Twitter: https://twitter.com/cvinters LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cvinters Episode Transcript   Christina: Today I have the privilege of talking to Karen Bonnell, one of the leading experts in North America on co-parenting. Karen is a registered nurse practitioner, as well as a mediator, divorce coach, and co-parenting coach. She's the author of the widely-read and respected Co-Parents' Handbook, which is recently been republished as The Co-Parenting Handbook. She's passionate about helping parents be the best co-parents they can be. I think you'll find she's incredibly warm and encouraging, and you'll get a lot out of this discussion. Here we go. Christina: Good morning, Karen! Thank you so much for being here with me today. Karen: Christina, it's my pleasure. Christina: I am really thrilled to have you here because I love that your focus is on helping parents focus on the best interest of the children. Why don't you start by telling us a bit about yourself – how you got in the field of divorce, and what exactly is a parent coach? Karen: Wow, OK. Kind of a big question. So, Christina you might already know that I'm a nurse by training, and one of the hallmarks for nurses is really looking at a person's health, a family's health, or community's health holistically. And so my background really set me up for looking at families who are going through transition enormous lies on change, in a very holistic way. Which is to say that in order for a family to be healthy, all members of the family need to be tended to. So as I went through my own two-home family, family restructuring many, many years ago, before co-parent coaching was available,  I realized that without that support, without that education, that understanding, it made that transition much harder than it needed to be. So shortly thereafter, I got involved in a collaborative law community which is where I cut my teeth on divorce coaching, which led me headlong and heart-full into co-parent coaching. So a co-parent coach is someone who walks alongside parents from the moment they realize they may need to separate through their divorce and then hoist their divorce process to ensure that kids are well cared for; they become the strongest, most skilful parents they can be. Even as they come to a close with their intimate partnership. Christina: That makes so much sense. The systemic approach that you've taken and how that transition from nursing happened and make so much sense in this context. Yeah, I agree. You can't have a family functioning well if one or two parts of it are experiencing trauma or just stressed in general. Karen: Well, our floundering in the fear of uncertainty or really encourage to be adversaries in this system wherein the end of the day, we still need a parenting team to raise healthy children. So that whole risk of that litigation model for families is very real. Christina: For sure, and I will be doing an episode specifically on collaborative law, but for listeners who may not have a chance to listen to that particular episode, can you give us just a brief summary of the collaborative law and how you fit into that process? Karen: Oh, sure. So I mostly work as a mediator, Christina, just as you do. But there are times when a family... depending on the complexity of their situation or their emotional needs or just their particular orientation, would prefer to walk through their divorce process with attorneys at their elbows.  And in a collaborative process, those attorneys are there truly as counsel; everybody is in the same room, it's fully transparent, it is a respectful process, not necessarily easy. But respectful process where all parties, all the professional people – the attorneys, the mental health professionals, like the coach, the financial neutrals sort of circle the wagons for the couple as they figure out their property settlement, as they come to decisions about how to raise their children in two homes. So it's a non-adversarial process that just ups the support from what might otherwise just be mediation. Christina: OK, and within that process, you're broaden as an expert to help with the co-parenting pace, and help them workout the logistics and communication around that? Karen: Correct. Typically, helping them go through their parenting plan worksheet and preparation for creating their state-mandated parenting, you know, contract – their parenting form. And I'm also typically helping them prepare for their financial meetings, really helping them unpack difficult emotions. So that when they walk into those business meetings, they can do that with a strong mind and a calmed heart. So, kinda both of those worlds in a collaborative process. Christina: OK, interesting! And so what are the issues that you encourage people to think about right upfront? What are the types of things that you would address at the very beginning? Karen: Right at the very beginning, I work with parents to bring their children into the room. One of the conversations that I know I can engage parents around is “Tell me about your children”. And I ask them specifically, “Tell me about being a parent to your child,” “So, what it's like to be a mom to Lucien?” “What is it like to be a dad for Michaela?” Depending on the configuration of the families, by the way of two moms, two dads, or a mom and a dad. And that way, I can really help them anchor, and I tell them specifically, everything we do from this moment forward is in the service of those little beings that I know are the center of your heart. And that includes how you learn to treat each other, how you bring this relationship – this intimate partnership or a marriage to a close. And how you renegotiate and strengthen; how you'll be a parenting team “until death do you part”? Christina: And a lot of parents I find it takes them a while to acknowledge that there will be that ongoing relationship. It seems to me quite difficult for a lot of people to wrap up the intimate relationship. But at the same time acknowledge that they really do need to work on having that constructive parenting relationship for the sake of their children. Karen: That's exactly right, and part of their resistance is often oriented around feeling forced to move too quickly into, what we might call friends as parents. And I'm very, very clear with intimate partners who are emotionally distraught, bereft, hurt, betrayed – that they may never be friends with their co-parent. And I don't need them to be friends. I need them to be respectful, and I need them to be civil and that will take time to find their way through their grief, through their hurt, through their pain. That will then allow them to be those things. In the meantime, what I want them to do is respectfully to separate. So less is more in this situation. Less communication, less back and forth, things that do need to be talked about haven't talked about in a guided setting, in a facilitated setting. Where someone can help manage the trauma, so that we're not re-traumatizing very, very tender hearts, very, very hurt people. Right? So our first step is how do we really separate so we can heal, grieve what we need to grieve – what we lost. So that we can begin to form a future where we can parent our children. Christina: Now, what will you say are your top tips that parents should really have at the forefront of their minds – specific tip? So being respectful is absolutely key. I'm thinking more tactical or strategic tips that will help them move towards a successful co-parenting plan. Karen: Step one: Choose your professionals – the people who are going to support you through your separation and your divorce. Choose professionals who are going to support you as a member of a family that's in transition. In other words, your allies don't need to champion you in this, on your co-parent. We don't need to feed that adversarial energy, OK. So choose professionals who can hold your pain while at the same time not pouring gasoline on a fire. Okay? Number one. Number two: Self-care. Self-care. Can I underline that enough? I want you to make sure you're sleeping. Please cut back on your alcohol use. Try an exercise everyday. Do what you can to be a good enough parent. Don't worry about falling apart from time to time. There are so many strong emotions that go with the losses of an intimate partnership and these changes in the family. We gotta be gentle with ourselves. So allow for that healing process. Know that there's gonna be grief. Try not to fight it. Try and work with it. OK? So that's number two. Choose your professionals wisely, do your self-care, acknowledge that there's grief. Right? The third piece, the third step is as your nervous system begins to settle down, then it's time to educate yourself about what it would mean to be co-parent. “How would I do that?” “How do I show up at curriculum night in two weeks when I know my other parent, you know my children's other parent, is gonna be there as well?” “How do I do that?” “Very practical. I can walk in the room, here's how I'll choose my seat, here's how I'll greet my co-parent, and then I'll step away.” So just recognizing that there are literally steps for how to do this that will help you heal, while simultaneously help you move forward. Christina: And I'd like to pick up on some of the terms that you used there. So you mentioned “other parent” and “my co-parent” – I'm curious, are those the words that you recommend people use to refer to each other? Using the term 'ex' which is so common in our culture is so negative. That has so many negative connotations attached to it. What are the terms that you recommend or that you find people use that sit well into.. that doesn't feel awkward? Karen: Right. So one of the first things I teach my parents who come into the office is that we're gonna begin a very active process of separating their husband-wife relationship, their spousal relationship, their intimate partnership, from their parenting. And the language that we choose really helps with that separation. You know, what we talk about is ending here is an intimate partnership, a marriage. What's not ending is that two people who became parents seven years ago, six months ago – whenever that occurred – eighteen years ago. And so I wanna help them get clearer and clearer about what are we closing up, what are we ending, what are we grieving? And what are we actually still engaged in? So I do ask my co-parent teams, don't use the term ex. How about, if you wanna identify your former spouse, how about former partner, former spouse? How about, you know sometimes we joke about 'wasbands'. But terms that are, are more endearing and less pejorative. Then some of the other terms, you know, jerk for example. Let's not use “I'm not co-parenting with a jerk”. “I'm co-parenting with my children's mother or father.” I also encourage them to reclaim just terms 'mom' and 'dad'. How many times did children of parents who are divorcing start to hear instead of “Go ask your dad” or “Go ask your mommy”, “Go ask your father” – with a  big 'your' in front of it. As if I've de-zoned that relationship, and that puts you over in a 'that' category; in “another camp”.  “Your father”, “Your mother”. And so parents actually practice that. What is it like to say “OK, when you're at home with dad...” as opposed to “When you are at your father's house...” Notice that it's not just my intonation, but my word choices that are gonna impact children. So, we start to practice. It's awkward, it's new, it's not what people do in the culture. But you know, we're helping parents reframe what their children's experiences which, over time, is much more enriching than feeling like they live in a divided home. Christina: It's amazing what a big change just one word can make. I actually hadn't heard that before and that's really eye-opening. My concept of 'dad' rather than 'your dad'. Even if you say it in a nice tone. Karen: Right. Christina: And so, what is your process for working with clients? Karen: Well, they know how to get to me... most people email and say, you know, 'we made a decision to separate, we'd like to meet with you'. They come in, we spend an introductory session just to make sure that they are clear about my process and that there's a good match – there's still a chemistry. I don't care who you are or how expert you might be. There's still chemistry you need to work with people that you feel comfortable with and feel like I can provide a trusting environment. Then we do many of the things that we've just talked about. You know, they introduce me to their children, they often bring pictures. I begin to lay the groundwork for separating, the intimate partnership from their parenting pair, their parenting team relationship. And depending on their readiness, we actually begin to talk about things like, “So if you're still living in the same home, when do you intend  to make that a two-home family?” “How do you imagine you might share your children?” So this is my language – share your children across two homes. “What are the skills you think you might need to keep their lives integrated and problem solved on their behalf?” That is part of what we'll be working through. I actually use a worksheet, it's available in the Parenting Plan Workbook, where parents talk about with each other the different options and 'why you might choose this one versus that one?', and ''how might we do the holidays in this first year too, but in yours three and beyond?' That might look quite different. So all of these is part of the psycho-education about how families adjust to a change of this magnitude. Christina: Now do you ever come across situations where one parent is interested in working with you and figuring out how to structure a positive co-parenting relationship, but the other spouse doesn't wish to participate? And if so, are you able to work with just one? Or how... do you have ways of trying to get the other parent interested in participating? Karen: Yes, I do. So just recently, I had a co-parent let me know that her co-parent's attorney didn't want her to see me. And so in that case, I ask if there was any chance that both of the attorneys – mom's attorney and dad's attorney –  will get on the phone with me just to talk about... My thought was that dad's attorney was uncertain or just simply didn't know what went on in my office. And so that would be one trick of the trade. The other is I usually can get a parent who wants to work with me to hook their other parent in by saying “Hey, she'll talk to you for free, give her a call, you can email her, here's her website, she'd be happy to give you a copy of her book, if you wanna contact her.” Like there are just things that I'll do to kind of say, Give me a chance. Just give me a minute, you don't have to work with me. Just come once. I mean that's my really big deal. Just come once. I don't need you to ever agree that you're gonna come back or that your'e gonna mediate your parenting plan with me. That's not important. But my experience is if I get them to come in once and find that out that it's actually safe, that's it's really about their kids, about that I really am neutral in terms of... You know I think sometimes dads are still afraid that working with a woman that I'll be biased toward a mom. And the fact is I have a very strong bias and I tell both parents that with these children need both their parents. And that what we know in terms of outcomes is that kids do better physically and emotionally when they have a strong and engaged relationship with both parents. It's not a competition about who's the better parent. Kids just need two good enough parents. That's what kids need. Christina: And parents must see once they go to that first meeting, they must see the immense value just right off the bat. I'm sure most people, once they realize what it's all about they go, “Oh, OK. I can see that this is gonna be really great for my kids going forward.” Karen: You know, there's a huge relief. Sometimes I have to slow down. Your listeners might not know, but I live in the Silicon Valley of the North. You know I live in the backyard of Microsoft and Amazon. And so sometimes my software engineers simply just need to be slowed down. They're all about efficiency and bullet points and box checking, and I sometimes need to spend a little time to say, “You know this is probably the most important contract that you will ever design. And you'll be living with it for, you know, however many years until their children are through college and although the contract expires in high school, at the end of high school, I really support my co-parents to really live inside a parenting plan structure until their kids are into adulthood, for their sake. So they don't fall into feelings of 'How can I meet both of my parents needs now that I'm in college?'. So sometimes it's about slowing dad down or mom down. Efficiency is really important – I know your time is extremely valuable, and just above your kids. And we're gonna find your way through it in the most efficient way possible with no corners cut. Because they deserve that. Most of the time I can get them to settle down. Christina: You've of course written the very popular book in the field, The Co-Parent's Handbook. And I see that you're now writing a new book about dating after divorce. So I'm wondering what advice do you have for parents on that topic? Karen: The new book will be out in the Spring, hopefully, that's the plan. It's called the Step-Family Handbook, and it's everything from first dates, as co-parents, to creating a step-family. And it's very, very important; a data point that most parents don't know is that the adjustment to step-family for children is actually more difficult than the divorce. And so as much as parents worry about their children during the divorce process, I really want them to understand that the transition to step-family is also an enormous, enormous adjustment. And although we, as parents, are often just so thrilled, so happy, so relieved, to be in love again, to have found a partner that's gonna walk forward with us – that's not necessarily our children's experience. And so recognizing the fears and trepidations that kids have really help guide how we introduce a new adult into their lives right from the beginning. So, that's what the new book will be about is that walk in that journey and how it skillfully pace, allowing children to recognize that we're now dating, that... what dating means, who this person is, how to build a relationship with the new adult who's not a parent? And who may be around our household in a parent-like capacity? Those are all skills and as a parent and a potentially soon-to-be-stepparent, learning that architecture and how it works is really important. Christina: Well thank you, Karen so much for sharing your wisdom with us today. What would be the best ways for our listeners to get in touch with you? Karen: The best way is by email. Just go to the website, which is coachmediatecounsult.com. There's a, you know, way to email me directly to my email address or through the website itself. Of course my phone number, I'm here in the States. People are welcome to call as well, email is a little easier. And you can follow me on Facebook and Twitter, and you know, Pinterest. So there's lots and lots of ways and I invite people to connect in any way that makes sense for them. Christina: OK, perfect! Well, Karen, thank you again for today and for all the really important work that you're doing for families. Karen: You're welcome. Thanks so much, Christina, for having me. It's really been my pleasure.

Have you ever wondered how to get better at one of the most important keys to great communication? Would you like to develop your power of influence and become a better coach, teacher or leader? What happens when you slip on a banana peel and three seekers fall into rapport together learning about the tremendous […]

Have you ever wondered how to get better at one of the most important keys to great communication? Would you like to develop your power of influence and become a better coach, teacher or leader? What happens when you slip on a banana peel and three seekers fall into rapport together learning about the tremendous […]

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Hey Friends, In this week's episode we chat about how we can learn to cool those flames of anger with compassionate listening. Included in this episode is a quick and easy to follow practice to incorporate into your daily routine so that you can begin to make space for compassionate listening in your on life. Check out Thich Nhat Hanh book discussed in the podcast using the link below: https://www.amazon.com/Anger-Cooling-Thich-Nhat-Hanh/dp/1573229377 Special thanks to Forget the Whales for theme music

Could all of our relationship challenges be eliminated if we had the ability to be a compassionate listener? When we can listen to the one “voice” of Spirit speaking to us through everyone and all of life, we are on the fastest path to our healing, our awakening, and our liberation. A Course in Miracles tells us our relationships are our best tool for healing our mind. Without the skill of compassionate listening, relationships are a difficult maze of dead ends and repeating the same errors. A Course in Miracles tells us how to rise above the battleground, if we’re willing to listen and practice. In this week’s episode, Jennifer Hadley shares her own experience of developing the skill of compassionate listening and the miracles it has brought in her relationships. Everything is teaching us—are we listening? Each week, Jennifer offers helpful tips and clear tools to aid us in a practical application of these ACIM teachings in order to truly live A Course in Miracles. Now is the time for us to choose to walk the talk and live the Love! To learn more about A Course in Miracles, please visit JenniferHadley.com. For the transcript of this episode and more, please visit LivingaCourseinMiracles.com.    

Susan Partnow, consultant and trainer in the art of compassionate listening shares the steps in this powerful process.  She also describes its usefulness as a tool for personal and global healing. 

Reflections following a conversation with Susan Partnow

Susan Partnow and The Power of Compassionate Listening, Restorative Circles and Bringing Peace into Everyday Practice. Susan Partnow is passionately committed to grassroots citizen action, Susan Partnow peacemaking, dialogue and community building. She facilitates processes that transform conflict and promote co-intelligence - all arising from a deep belief that we can and must 'listen our way […] The post The phenomenal Susan Partnow and The Power of Compassionate Listening appeared first on Restorative Justice On The Rise.

Care to JOIN US LIVE for our NEXT ONLINE SUNDAY MORNING SERVICE? CLICK HERE. Today's DHARMA TALK includes: The Story of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15). The Buddhist teaching that Love (Maitri) requires Understanding. Brothers & Siblings in the Bible. The Cultural Divides & Chasms - even within our Families & among Old Friends. The Mirror-like Wisdom of the Judeo-Christian Bible (and Michael's fondness for the King James Version). Thich Nhat Hanh's teaching on the Power of Humor & Humility (not taking oneself too seriously). His podcast series FRESH GREEN BLESSINGS: READING THE JUDEO-CHRISTIAN BIBLE THROUGH A BUDDHIST LENS WITH MOTHER EARTH EYES. Jesus, Maitreya (the Buddha-to-come), and G-d as Spiritual Helpers, Available Resources in this Moment. Parson Michael R. Malley's Dharma Talk from the February 14, 2021 Sunday Morning Service of Sacred Ground Community Church & Sangha. Want to JOIN US LIVE for our NEXT ONLINE SUNDAY MORNING SERVICE? CLICK HERE. Music: Courtesy of Adrian Von Ziegler, “My Black Rose.”

In this Dharma Talk from the May 3, 2020, Sunday Morning SACRED GROUND Service, Parson Michael R. Malley speaks of... the Compassionate Listening of Thich Nhat Hanh & Art Gish, the Road To Emmaus in Luke's Gospel, the thin wall between us & the Otherworld at Beltaine & Easter, sacred birdsongs for the dying, and Jesus Christ opening our eyes & ears to the Sacred before us. (Music: Courtesy of Adrian Von Ziegler, “My Black Rose.” )