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The Art of Hosting is a worldwide community of practitioners as well as an approach to participatory leadership, dialogue, facilitation and co-creation that scales up from the personal to the systemic, using different methods, such as The Circle Way, World Café, Open Space Technology, and Appreciative Inquiry.
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Beyond Us & Them envisions a culture of social connection, engagement and resilience that promotes mutual respect, wellbeing and care and dismantles systems of oppression, exclusion and racism.
Fostering wellbeing, compassion and social connection, Beyond Us & Them offers practical, evidence-based approaches to enhance wellbeing, disrupt division, nurture relationships and deliver tangible results.
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https://buildingconversation.nl/en/
Building Conversation is a platform for Dialogical Art, which concentrates on the meeting of art, conversation and society.
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https://bureauforlistening.com
Bureau for Listening (2021-ongoing) is an artist and research group investigating and promoting listening as critical, empathic, and artistic practice. The collective consists of Randi Lindholm Hansen, Lukas Quist Lund and Amalie Sejersdahl and is based in Denmark.
“We work nomadic, transdisciplinary, and strive to engage others in shared practices and projects. We ask that listening is practiced as a transdisciplinary phenomenon. We understand listening as more than the hearing of audible signals, as it supports a range of relevant processes and projects, including: emotional and social recognition, community relations, establishing of attunement and discovery across human and more-than-human worlds, co-learning, and decolonial, eco-feminist initiatives. We consider listening as a creative inquiry and sensitivity; one that stimulates a caring and artistic being-with.” (Text: https://arthubcopenhagen.net/en/profile/bureau-for-listening)
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https://circlesofresilience.net/
A growing community of facilitators who practice speaking and listening from the heart in order to create more resilient families, workplaces and communities.
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https://communitiesinmovement.net/
Communities in Movement is an artistic research project initiated by Brandon LaBelle at the The Art Academy, University of Bergen. The notion of “social acoustics” is positioned as a framework for reflecting upon the ways in which listening facilitates collaborative and emergent forms of sociality.
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https://compassionateinquiry.com
Compassionate Inquiry is a psychotherapeutic approach created by Dr. Gabor Maté over several decades while working with both patients and retreat participants. This approach gently uncovers and releases the layers of childhood trauma, constriction and suppressed emotion embedded in the body, that are at the root of mental and physical illness and addiction.
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Cultivating Justice: A Quest Toward Racial Equity is a collection of projects and resources made by and for people in the Cedar Valley to promote racial justice and activate systemic change in our communities. The Quest’s collection of local materials includes essays, videos, performances of poetry, artwork, podcasts, toolkits, events, and more. Click on the tabs above to explore all the website has to offer.
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https://www.elephantlisteningproject.org/
The Elephant Listening Project seeks to help conserve the second largest block of rainforest on earth and the biodiversity that it harbors, by focusing on forest elephants as key architects of those forests, and using innovative acoustic tools at the scale of landscapes. The project is a part of the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics, whose mission is to collect and interpret sounds in nature by developing and applying innovative conservation technologies across ecologically relevant scales to inspire and inform the conservation of wildlife and habitats.
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Errant Bodies publishes books, audio and video works with a focus on sound and spatial arts, contemporary political and pedagogical thought and research, performative and collaborative practices, and poetic writing.
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https://www.council-network.eu
The purpose of the European Council Network is to support the practice and the growth of the Way of Council in Europe, connecting people all over Europe, Israel and the Middle East.
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https://www.synchronicityearth.org/synchronicity/flourishing-diversity/
Flourishing Diversity works to strengthen existing and emerging restorative cultures by supporting people to protect and deeply connect with the land on which they dwell and the multi-species communities they share these spaces with. The events they produce, the narratives they amplify and the relationships they nurture seek to grow our capacities to nourish our living places and in turn be nourished by them.
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https://www.futureecologies.net/
Future Ecologies is a Podcast about relationships – between, within, amongst, and all around us. Made for audiophiles and nature lovers alike, Future Ecologies is a podcast exploring our eco-social relationships through stories, science, music, and soundscapes. Every episode is an invitation to see the world in a new light — weaving together narrative and interviews with expert knowledge holders.
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Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures (GTDF) is an arts/research collective that uses its website as a workspace for collaborations around different kinds of artistic, pedagogical, cartographic, and relational experiments that aim to identify and de-activate colonial habits of being, and to gesture towards the possibility of decolonial futures.
Thanks to Dani Bershan for the hint.
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The Global Center for Indigenous Leadership and Lifeways (GCILL) is an informal umbrella created to support long-term and short-term projects that educate and inform people about Indigenous ways, raise human consciousness, and co-create a harmonious relationship with Mother Earth. The core focus of GCILL is to share the messages of Elders and wisdom keepers, including GCILL’s founder, 'Kuuyux' Ilarion (Larry) Merculieff, while helping other-selves and Mother Earth.
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https://www.globallisteningcentre.org
The Global Listening Centre (GLC) is a dedicated premier international non-profit organization, which promotes the noble cause of listening worldwide and encourages individuals, organizations and institutions to work together to meet the urgent challenges of society. The GLC is organized according to its constitution and led by the Global Listening Board, which is comprised of experienced and passionate advocates who are leaders and experts in their respective fields.It instigates projects amongst motivated teams in support of its listening goals. The Global Listening Centre welcomes collaboration and partnership with organizations having a convergence of interest in studying, researching and promoting the practice of listening as well as advancing innovative technology for enhancing effective listening.
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“The border zone between what is audible and inaudible is defined by its dimensions and its potentiality for expansion. It is neither a space with clear boundaries, nor does it accommodate infinite expanses, it is rather an alternative to the hard boundary that distinguishes between here and there. While it feeds off its extremes, it is not a hybrid of both, but a third, fourth, fifth, multiple development from its origins. Differentiation is its end, ambiguity is its potential, overlapping is its habitat. The border zone is characterised by its diffusive nature – the simultaneity of opposites: interior/exterior, open/closed, united/divided, collectively/individually.” – Timo Kreuser / Sophie Emilie Beha
Thanks to Timo Kreuser for the hint.
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The International Listening Association (ILA) is a cross-disciplinary, global network dedicated to promoting effective listening through practice, research, and teaching. Our motivated members are committed to cultivating listening skills to enhance constructive dialogue across all sectors of society. Join us to improve your preparedness, develop essential skillsets, and expand your network.
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JUST Listening fosters personal, organizational, and social change and transformation through the practice of conscious, intentional, compassionate, non-egoic and non-judgmental communication skills.
JUST Listening is premised upon the beliefs that: Being heard empowers the speaker; People hold the solutions to their own problems within; Skilled listening is creative, opening up new possibilities for all involved, and can be a powerful tool for personal and social change; Although rarely consulted or listened to, people on the social margins are the best source of information and ideas about the issues facing them; Skilled listening is possible only when one is actively cultivating self-awareness and regular habits of reflection.
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La Bonne Poire is an anti-patriarchal initiative that aims to create spaces where men can meet and take ownership of the issues surrounding masculinity in their lives.
Thanks to Christophe Meierhans for the hint.
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https://www.listeningacrossdisciplines.net
Listening Across Disciplines II is a research project that systematically investigates the potential of listening as a legitimate and reliable methodology for research across the arts and humanities and into science, social science and technology.
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Listening to Indigenous Voices is a Dialogue Guide on Justice and Right Relationships that explores Indigenous worldviews, examines the history of colonization, and concludes with sessions on righting relationships, decolonization, and indigenization. Each session includes questions to guide sharing circles as well as curriculum ideas for use in secondary and post-secondary educational settings.
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Lobau Listening Comprehensions (LLC) is a site-specific, acoustic investigation of the Lobau, the Vienna Danube floodplains. We collect sounds. We listen to personal experiences, more-than-human voices, ecological conditions, political negotiations as well as historical events.
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The millionth circle refers to the circle whose (metaphoric) formation tips the scales and shifts planetary consciousness. The phrase comes from Jean Shinoda Bolen’s book ‘The Millionth Circle: How to Change Ourselves and The World’. The Millionth Circle is a group of women who, since 2001, have volunteered their time to hold this vision through their participation in monthly virtual circles and annual in-person circles where a deepening of the circle experience occurs. By holding this Mother Circle they anchor the concept of a million circles.
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momo hört zu e.V. is a non-profit organisation that promotes a culture of listening and appreciation in Germany. Volunteer listeners offer non-judgemental and free listening in a dedicated, mobile listening room in Munich.
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On Being is a conversation that has been building for over two decades with wise and graceful lives — across spiritual inquiry and science, social healing and the arts. You likely know us through On Being with Krista Tippett, our Peabody award-winning show that began on public radio — now podcasting special seasons. We can be found in ears, and in conversations that matter, around the world. We are animated by humanity’s ancient questions, newly alive in this century:
What does it mean to be human?
How do we want to live?
And who will we be to each other?
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https://onbeing.org/series/podcast/
Wisdom to replenish and orient in a tender, tumultuous time to be alive. Spiritual inquiry, science, social healing, and poetry. Conversations to live by. With a 20-year archive featuring luminaries like Mary Oliver, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Desmond Tutu, each episode brings a new discovery about the immensity of our lives. Hosted by Krista Tippett.
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https://onecirclefoundation.org
One Circle Foundation promotes resiliency and healthy development in children, adolescents, families, adults, and communities. They train, consult, and equip service providers across all youth sectors in the United States and internationally with state of the art, research based Circle program models, best practice approaches, and manual-guided curricula for programs serving youth and communities, amongst which Council Formats and Listening Circles.
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One Small Step – initiated by StoryCorps – brings people with different views together to record a conversation. Not to debate politics, but simply to get to know each other as people.
One Small Step is a 50-minute recorded conversation between two people with different political views. Science tells us we can combat the polarizing effects of news and social media just by talking to each other one-on-one again. Because when we approach each other with curiosity, we realize we have more in common than we think.
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https://pointsoflistening.net/
Points of Listening is an wvent series exploring sound and listening as an investigative lens and artistic focus for collective, communal and participatory practices. It is co-convened by Salomé Voegelin and Mark Peter Wright since 2014 and continues as an ongoing project of collective listening and sound making situated at the intersection of sound arts, participatory practices and education.
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Public Conversations Project Dialogue Toolkit (pdf)
Public Conversations Project Dialogue (PCP Dialogue) is a method for people to constructively talk about deeply divisive topics that often involve identity, core values and world views which are matters that cannot be easily negotiated or resolved by compromise. Such differences, be it over religious or ethnic identity, a development project, or a community health program, often undermine efforts to create inclusive, participatory, healthy communities where there can be cooperation and constructive deliberation on important public issues.
The goals of PCP Dialogue are to improve communication, increase mutual understanding, and shift participants’ relationships towards a constructive direction. When these outcomes are achieved, the conditions are created for stakeholders to talk with each other in a productive way, leading to a process by which mutual agreements can be reached.
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https://taniasinger.de/the-resource-project/
https://www.resource-project.org/en/
The ReSource Project, initiated by psychologist and social neuroscientist Tania Singer, is a large-scale scientific study and training model dedicated to mindfulness, compassion, perspective-taking and pro-social behaviour.
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https://socialmovementsinnovation.org/
Social Movements + Innovation Lab is a space for social justice leaders and designers to share tools and experiment with fresh ways to address systemic inequality and repression.
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https://spore-initiative.org/en/
Spore Initiative facilitates cultural projects at the intersection of climate justice, ecological regeneration, and education, in dialogue with earth protectors in the Global South and the Global North. The Spore House in Berlin is a platform for exchange, dialogue, and mutual learning. At the core of their work is the weaving of dialogues and the nurturing of common grounds that exist between communities, organizations, and people who may be geographically or culturally far from one another but are linked through practices of care for the earth.
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StoryCorps is committed to the idea that everyone has an important story to tell and that everyone’s story matters. Our mission: to help us believe in each other by illuminating the humanity and possibility in us all — one story at a time. Since its founding in 2003, StoryCorps has helped nearly 700,000 people across the USA have meaningful conversations about their lives. These recordings are collected in the U.S. Library of Congress and in an online archive which is now the largest single collection of human voices ever gathered.
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Putting equity and justice in the center, The Circle Way unequivocally affirms the essential practice of turning to one another to uphold racial, ethnic, gender, disability, economic, and environmental justice. We can imagine a different way.
The Circle Way is a way of being in the world; a structure for deep conversation and wise outcomes; a methodology founded by Christina Baldwin and Ann Linnea in 1992; a growing movement of global practice.
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https://storycorps.org/discover/the-great-thanksgiving-listen/
The Great Listen encourages people of all ages across the US to create an oral history of our times by recording an interview with an elder, mentor, friend, or someone they admire — an initiative that encourages people to honor someone in their lives by recording their story for future generations. Participants can record an interview with someone in the same room using the free StoryCorps App or record with someone in a different location using, StoryCorps Connect.
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https://feministeconomicsdepartment.com/projects/hologram/
A viral four-person health monitoring and diagnostic system developed by Cassie Thornton, The Hologram is a bold vision for revolutionary care: a viral, peer-to-peer feminist health network. Three non-expert participants create a three-dimensional “hologram” of a fourth participant’s physical, psychological and social health, and each becomes, the focus of three other people’s care in an expanding network.
Thanks to Emma Kim-Hagdahl for the hint.
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The Listening Biennial is an artistic, research initiative focusing on listening as a relational capacity, a philosophical and political proposition, a creative practice, and research framework. It acts as an umbrella bringing together practitioners, researchers, institutions and collectives engaged in listening as a method, a tool, a poetics. This includes the creation of an international Biennial exhibition, as well as organizing the Listening Academy in different cities. From radical empathy to sonic practice, quiet refusal to somatic wellbeing, eavesdropping to ecological attunement, listening wields a creative and critical force that may contribute to maintaining the diversity of our social adventure.
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https://thelivingcircle21.com.au/deep-listening-in-practice/
Drawing on an extensive network of musicians, artists and Aboriginal Elders as facilitators, performers and advisors, The Living Circle recognises that the creative arts play a vital role in strengthening cohesion in communities and contributing to social and emotional well-being. A strong focus of their work is a strength-based approach with an active involvement of First Nation peoples and culturally diverse community members.
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Topa Institut offers Council Retreats and Workshops. Speaking from the heart and listening from the heart is the foundation for much of what Topa Institut offers. Because we value the practice of “Council,” honed over four decades at the Ojai Foundation, we continue offering education in this method of heartfelt deep listening and communication. We convene gatherings to hold and make space for particular marginalized communities, including Councils for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) and LGBTQIA+ people. Additionally trainings are held throughout the year to support those learning to facilitate and support others in the Council practice .
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve-step_program
Twelve-step programs are international mutual aid programs supporting recovery from substance addictions, behavioral addictions and compulsions. Developed in the 1930s, the first twelve-step program, Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), founded by Bill Wilson and Bob Smith, aided its membership to overcome alcoholism. Since that time dozens of other organizations have been derived from AA's approach to address problems as varied as drug addiction, compulsive gambling, sex, and overeating. All twelve-step programs utilize a version of AA's suggested twelve steps.
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https://www.urielcenter.co.il/
The Uriel Center is a place of connection and human encounter. It has been operating in Israel since 2001.
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Ways of Council has grown out of The Ojai Foundation/Topa Institute lineage, and is practicing the ancient and emergent tradition of circle ways. Circles have been called, inspired, practiced, and informed by many cultures over time. The heart of these practices – of listening, learning, living and thinking like a circle – are needed now more than ever.
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https://www.gcill.world/wisdom-weavers-of-the-world
Bringing ancient Indigenous ways of knowing and wisdom into modern times. Amplifying the voices of the world’s Indigenous Wisdom-Keepers.
Wisdom Weavers of the World is a collaborative project that brings together Elders and Earth activists to share Indigenous wisdom and sacred teachings. The project hosts events to gather with one another and produce recordings to share messages that help shift consciousness and instructions for how to live in balance and harmony with the natural world.
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Drawing on seven integrated design principles, the World Café methodology is a simple, effective, and flexible format for hosting large group dialogue. Each element of the method has a specific purpose and corresponds to one or more of the design principles. World Café can be modified to meet a wide variety of needs. Specifics of context, numbers, purpose, location, and other circumstances are factored into each event’s unique invitation, design, and question choice, based on five components that comprise the basic method.
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A group of people from different professions have come together in Hamburg, Germany, to listen to whoever, whatever, as confidentially as one wishes.