Life Listening Practices
| Centering
Live from the center of our authentic selves, staying balanced and empowered. Awareness Know who we are in ourselves and in relationship. Empathy Listen with compassion and generosity, cultivating awareness of what it might be like to be the other person. Assertiveness Engage others with confidence and respect. Emotional maturity Speak and act appropriately in all situations, being aware of our feelings and choosing helpful responses. |
Connecting
Develop an ability to see the interdependence of all things and to live with an attitude of cooperation, seeking mutual benefit in what we do. Story-telling Learn to listen and tell our stories so we develop a shared narrative that enables us to transform our world. Reframing Speak out of our own values and perspectives, offering alternative ways of seeing the world. Creative imagination Expand our ability to see the world from different perspectives, creating new solutions to old problems. Nonviolent engagement Choose the way of love rather than fear, responding to threats with creative confidence in the future. |