I AM Listening?
Relationships With Compassion
Listening with my heart and soul
I am listening!
Relationship With Compassion
•Learn to listen to words of anger with compassion.
•Learn to see others with whom you are in conflict as wounded.
•Learn to connect with others hear to heart.
•Transform yourself from being a victim of others bad acts and unkind words to a person on a spiritual path of growth and healing.
People on all sides of a conflict are wounded. The normal human reaction after being wounded by another person is to defend our self. We interrupt, criticize, put down the other person or deny the truth of their story. When we do this, we remain in conflict.
Underneath our wounds is a much softer and gentler part of us -- our heart held values. These are the spiritual values important to each one of us. When we communicate heart to heart, conflict drops away.
We can learn to communicate with our hearts by listening for heart held values in the words of other people. When we reflect these heart-held values, others end up feeling understood and sometimes loved. This softens their hearts and causes them to open up and start listening to us, and we are able to break the cycle of pain, anger and wounding in interpersonal relationships.
Participants in this class will learn how to resolve and heal interpersonal conflicts through the following steps:
1.The instructor will discuss the concept of Compassionate Listening.
2.The instructor will demonstrate listening for facts, feelings, and heart-held values by inviting participants to tell stories of conflict in their own lives.
3.Participants will be divided into groups to listen for facts, feelings, and heart-held values in each other’s stories.
Practice listening for facts, feelings, and heart held values enables participants to integrate the spiritual discipline of Compassionate Listening in their own lives and help them to heal conflict in their relationships with others.
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