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Saturday, November 15, 2008 from 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM (PT)
How to Listen to your Teen and have your Teen Hear you:
A Workshop sponsored by Teen Talking Circles of Bainbridge Island
Being a parent is the greatest gift we can have in life, and sometimes it is one of the most down-right frustrating, frightening, complex and painful experiences we know. Part of this comes from not feeling we can get through to our children, especially when they are teenagers. All the good ideas and best intentions to communicate go down the drain when we just blow our tops out of sheer frustration that we just are not communicating. And this goes both ways.
So what can we do about it? How can we communicate what we're thinking, feeling, sensing, seeing, and knowing? How can we listen to each other when we don't agree? Where is the bridge we can take to stay connected and loving with each other when we feel we're at opposite ends of the spectrum and risk losing our connection?
Compassionate Listening is the answer we've found. Founded by Leah Green and used in the middle east between deep rivals, Compassionate Listening has been the single most valuable practice we've used in our family circles, our TTC Trainings, Women's Retreats, and Teen Talking Circles.
Come spend a day with Linda Wolf and Genevieve Wolf Smeeth exploring how you can use this invaluable tool in all your relationships, especially with the ones you love most.
The practice of Compassionate Listening helps us to awaken to what the mystics from all of the great faiths have known for centuries: that cultivating the wisdom of the heart is the key to real peace "from the inside out."
"The intelligence of the heart is confirmed in recent findings in the field of Neurocardiology on the heart-brain relationship. In Compassionate Listening, our emphasis is on strengthening the influence of the heart through cultivating compassion for ourselves and each other, and learning to listen and speak from the heart - even in the heat of conflict. The practice of Compassionate Listening teaches us how to reach through layers of defensiveness and reactivity to our essential core. From there, we can shift communication and relationships into heart-to-heart interaction. Participants in our experiential workshops learn powerful skills for peace-making with family, community, in the workplace and beyond. We are truly learning to BE the peace we wish to see in the world, as Gandhi so eloquently challenged us to do.
In this workshop you'll learn and practice the Five Core Practices of Compassionate Listening:
* Cultivating Compassion and a willingness to connect even when not in agreement;
* Developing the Fair Witness by remaining open in conflict situations;
* Respecting Self and Others by developing boundaries which protect yet include;
* Listening with the Heart to create a spaciousness which allows divergence and finds a deeper point of connection;
* Speaking from the Heart with language which reflects a healing intention." ©Compassionate Listening Project
Workshop Facilitators: Linda Wolf & Genevieve Wolf Smeeth, mother and daughter have been using Compassionate Listening practice in their relationship for many years. Linda is the founder/executive director of Teen Talking Circles, author of Daughters of the Moon, Sisters of the Sun: Young Women and Mentors on the Transition to Womanhood, recipient of the Athena Award for Excellence in Mentoring, and a certified member of the facilitation team of the Compassionate Listening Project. Genevieve Wolf Smeeth is a co-facilitator of the Bainbridge Island Girl's Talking Circle, co-trainer of the Art of Facilitating Teen Talking Circles Training, and co-leader of Women's Sacred Circle Retreats and student at Seattle Central College.
"If we can change ourselves, we can change the world. We're not the victims of the world we see, we're the victims of the way we see the world. This is the essence of Compassionate Listening: seeing the person next to you as a part of yourself."- Dennis Kucinich, U.S. Congressman
Suggested donation: $75 (with lunch) $65 (bring your own lunch) in advance (plus small online fee) - $100 at the door
For more information about the Compassionate Listening Project, go to: www.compassionatelistening.org
For more information about this and other Teen Talking Circle workshops or trainings, go to: www.teentalkingcircles.org or contact us at 206-842-3000
Teen Talking Circles
PO Box 4492
Rollingbay, WA 98061
206-842-3000
"We have learned so much about facilitating healthy and significant dialogue among and with teens from the work of Teen Talking Circles that it has become ingrained in our structure. Students now insist on there being time each week for "circle," both for girls and boys. Kudos to all those on staff at TTC for dedicating your lives to improving the wellbeing of children and those that care about them. Well done!"
Andy Smallman, Director, Puget Sound Community School, Seattle
Past Training Participants include representatives from the following:
Addictions Counseling Center for the Squamish Nation
American Association of University Women Poughkeepsie Branch
American Association of University Women Wappiger Falls
Antioch University
Asian Counseling & Referral Service
Aspen Youth Center
Associated Ministries
Auburn AmeriCorp Team
Auburn’s Neigthborhood Program
Barber Hill Wellness
Bethany House
Binder Riha Associates
Bitberg High School
Boys & Girls Club of Fond du Lac
Brandon University
Bremerton Kitsap County Health District
Bush School, Seattle Washington
Canadian Forces Halifax Class Patrol Frigate HMCS
Canadian Red Cross
Casa de la Imagination
Catalyst Mediation Services
Centre for Research & Education/ Violence Against Women & Children
Center for Women & Democracy - University of Washington
Centerheart
CenterPoint
Chico Peace and Justice Center
Children's Literacy Project/Treehouse Tutoring Corps
Circle Yoga
Client List
Community Coalition of Eastern Santa Cruz
Community Outreach Programs in Addictions, Toronto
Counseling for Life
Counseling Psychology Center, Monmouth University
Creative Crossings
Creative Possibilities
Crisis Clinic of Washington State
Culver Girls Academy
Culver Military School
Dads and Daughters
Denise DuPree Acupuncture Clinic
Earth Girls National Building
East Cherry YWCA, Washington
eco-brain: Green Books for Green Living
Edmonton Film Festival
Fairview Junior High School
Feminist Women's Health Center
First Presbyterian Church
Florence City Board of Education
Fond du Lac Health Department
Fond du Lac School District
Fond du Lack Family Resoure Center
Gather the Women, Canada
GI Jane of Illinois
Girls Coalition of Greater Boston
Girlphyite
Girls EnCircle
Girls Outdoors
GRuB (Garden-Raised Bounty
Guiding Lights Weekend
Harpeth Hall School
Healing Circles Program Coordinator Hospice Care Online
Indianapolis Peace Institute
Kewaskum High School
Kim's World
Kodiak Area Native Association
Lafayette college
Lake Washington Tech Academy
Lake Washington Girls Middle School
Leelenau County Juvenile Justice Department
LTBB of Otawa Indians
Lifeways, Inc
Lutheran Evangelical Church of Denmark
Marysville YMCA, Washington
Media Island International
Mental Health Counseling at Antioch, Seattle WA.
Miami Valley Juvenile Rehabilitation Center
Missouri State CDR
National Defence and the Canadian Forces
New Moon Foundation
Northern Alberta Institute of Technology
Northwest Girl's Coalition
Nurture a Chlld
Oregon Youth Authority
Oklahoma Commission on Children and Youth
Operation Respect
Passages Northwest
Peace by Peace
Peace Corps
PeaceFirst
Pearls for Teen Girls
Pep Girlz Program
Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains
Planned Parenthood Marmonte, Reno, Nevada
Puget Sound Community School
Red Moon Yoga
Renton Area Youth and Family Services
Renton Teen Health Center
Rite of Passage Journeys
Robinson Community Learning Center Prevention Program
RTI International - Crime, Justice and Behavior Unit
Santa Barbara Family Therapy Institute
Safe.Smart. Strong.
St Croix Valley Restorative Justice
Saint Mary’s College
Setrawa/India
Seventh-Generation
Shambhali Trust/Jodhpur, India
Sister Made International Services’ Office
Space Between
Spirited Youth
The Fun House
The Karuna School
The Way of It: Personal Coaching
Travers City Juvenile Justice Department
United Way of King County
UW-Milwaukee - Office of Student Life
University of Toronto
University Universalist Church
Untamed Imagination
US Department of Women’s Health
Voices and Choices
Volunteers of America, Mentoring Children of Promise
Washington Ethical Society
Washington National Guard Family Programs
West Seattle Teen Health Center
Wildwood Elementary School
Women in Support of Education
Women’s Center at the University of Wisconsi
YES/Bhutan
YES Summit/Mexico
YMCA Seattle Washington
YWCA of Jamestown New York
YWCA Pathways for Women
YWCA-Washington Advantage
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