One-Day Training  -  2 Day Training   -  Past Trainings & Presentations

Compassionate Listening(SM) trainings focus on learning five core practices:

• Suspending Judgment

• Maintaining balance in the heat of conflict

• Listening with the heart

• Speaking from the heart

• Holding compassion for oneself and others - including forgiveness

One-Day Training

This training gives an overview of the history and principles of Compassionate Listening. Participants will have the opportunity to learn and experience focused, nonjudgmental listening. They will begin to explore what makes listening difficult and see how being truly heard can produce significant shifts in attitude and behavior.

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Two-Day Intensive Introductory Training

Builds on the One-Day training model to gives participants further opportunity to deepen their listening skills. Participants who complete either of these trainings are eligible to enroll in the Advanced Training course offered by The Compassionate Listening Project (www.compassionatelistening.org)

Click HERE for more information or to register.

This Intensive Introductory Training can also be offered in two eight-hour parts.

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Training Tuition Fees

Training tuition fees depend on how the training is organized, whether it is open to individuals or is for a group already organized, the venue, minimum number of participants, and whether it is a residential training. I will work with you to make it happen.

If you or your group would like to host a training (provide the space and help get the word out), please contact Yael at: listening@cl-middleeast.org or call 972+(0)54-534-1545.

Schedule

2010

One-Day Introductory Trainings in Compassionate Listening   

Compassionate Listening Introductory Intensive Training - 2 Days    

Past Trainings and Presentations

Trainings:

Keynote Speeches and Presentations:

First Congregational Church, Old Lyme, CT, July 2009
Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven, January 2007
National Council of Jewish Women, May 2005
Whitney Center, New Haven, CT, April 2005
Community Center, Hamden, CT, October 2004
Peace Educator’s Conference, Greenwich, CT, June 2003
Southern Connecticut State University – Jewish Women Peace-Makers, Oct. 2003
International Women’s Day, New Haven, CT, March 2003

From the Participants

"Yael: I just want to thank you for the powerful workshop on Compassionate Listening you recently conducted.  What I learned there has been a tremendous help in my personal life and as a coach.  Really understanding that just being a presence for someone, to really listen without judgement and without the compulsion to take on the person's issue, is extremely powerful and has made a difference in my life already.  I would like to take additional workshops on this topic and I am currently speaking with my church about having the workshop done there. 

Thanks so much for making a difference!"
- Kathleen Murphy   

Thank you for an inspiring and insightful day.  You bring the richness of your knowledge and appreciation of the world's diversity to everythng you do.  Keep us informed of your work and we will continue to tell others of our experience".
- Barbara Kelly,  Westport, CT

" I found myself telling everyone who I met today about Compassionate Listening and what I learned.  As a result of the workshop, I have become more mindful of how I listen and hopefully will be compassionate when doing so."
- Joy Deignan,  Westport, CT

" I am still so high from yesterday's extraordinary karma with Yael...   I hope we encourage Yael to come on back and continue her teachings for us and others.  The message is so important to get out there!"
- Jill Brooks,   Westport, CT

The training was absolutely fantastic. It made me acutely aware of how challenging it is to truly listen with one's heart with quiet purity and lack of judgment. If we were all more skilled at this, the world would be moving down a different path. I look forward to attending advanced trainings. Thank you, Yael!
- Rachel Goldman,  MA

This was a fabulous day!! Thank you Yael.
- Karen Kwass,  MA

Yael, you inspired us.
- Doris Tennant,  MA 

"Your Compassionate Listening training was, for me, truly an eye-opener. It got me to understand where people are coming from when communicating. Although I have to remind myself from time to time to practice using the skills taught to me, I now see the world as a more loving place. Thanks again for an enlightening experience."
- Anastasia, Oakland, CA