Become a More Powerful Peacemaker in Your Family,
Community and Workplace

Explore the Five Core Practices of Compassionate Listening and learn the skills necessary to bring this powerful technique into your daily life.

• Holding Compassion for Oneself and Others
• Suspending Judgment
• Maintaining Balance in the Heat of Conflict
• Listening with the Heart
• Speaking from the Heart

Compassionate Listening is a practice that reaches deep into the heart of discord or disconnection, teaching people to listen with a different "ear" to those around them. Its powerful tools help transform the energy of conflict into opportunities for understanding, intimacy at home, healthy relations, productive teamwork, and positive action. It is a practice that provides a roadmap to what sages from all ages and cultures have taught: cultivating the wisdom of the heart is the key to real peace "from the inside out."

This 1-day non-residential workshop provides a basic introduction; participants can attend the second day of the 2-day basic intensive. And even this one day can serve as the pre-requisite for the Advanced Training.

Sr. Trainer with The Compassionate Listening Project, your facilitator, Susan Partnow is co-founder of Conversation Cafes, Let’s Talk America and Global Citizen Journey. She has brought this project around the world, from Cuba to Liberia, Ghana to Nazareth.  She is a former teacher and speech pathologist, author of Everyday Speaking for All Occasions, co-author of our recently published workbook, and a certified mediator and  organizational development consultant/trainer with over 20 years experience, and an M.A. from Northwestern University.

This session is co-sponsored by the San Francisco Interfaith Coalition on Immigration.

Cost: Total cost for the one-day workshop is $75 - $175, with a special group rate for the Interfaith Community of $50.  You'll be able to choose what you pay within this range at the end of the workshop. Those able and willing to contribute at the higher end help support our scholarship fund. 

Pre-registration of $50 is required. The remainder of the fee is due at the end of the workshop. Please bring your checkbook or cash, as we're unable to accept any credit cards  at the workshop!

**Partial scholarships may be available for those unable to pay the full fee, so please don't let cost be a barrier.**

Cancellation Policy: If you cancel with more than two weeks notice, we can apply your $50 toward registration toward a future workshop. With less than two weeks notice, we can apply $25 toward a future workshop. There are no refunds.

Additional Information:

If you do not receive your Paypal receipt, there was probably a problem with your registration. Please call us if this happens. Do not assume that you are registered!

After registering and paying, you will receive an email from PayPal confirming your payment. This is your confirmation of a completed registration. If you elect to pay by check, you will receive a confirmation as soon as the check is received. Within two weeks prior to the workshop we will send an email with final details and directions.

We have limited ability to offer partial scholarships. If you'd like to know more about this workshop or partial scholarships, contact Susan at (206) 310-1203 or susanpartnow@gmail.com

For more about The Compassionate Listening Project, go to www.compassionatelistening.org