Listener's Way workshop/training in Los Angeles
The Los Angeles Area Program of American Friends Service Committee, and the Affirm Moral Values Group is offering a free Listener's Way training on Saturday, September 10, 2005 from 10am-12:30pm
Many of us seek to encourage this society to embrace progressive values. We want to encourage values of social and political progress, reform and the protection of civil liberties, criminal, social and international justice. One approach to transforming society is through one-on-one communication. We are offering a powerful tool to help you share your ideas and talk to anyone with the possibility of opening their mind. We offer here, a method to “promote‿ progressive values through one-on-one talking, persuading and listening to people’s fears. If this can be done by more and more people around the country, our society will begin to embrace Progressive Values.
The Listener's Way promotes starting any conversation by active listening. It advises sincere interest in the person and seeing the human being beneath the surface. This method seeks to create a bond that says "we are struggling together, not against each other.‿
We propose giving the other person the opening to present their best case. We can listen carefully and respectfully press them to bring out inconsistencies, questionable assumptions and uncertainties. We can state our case strongly, passionately, eloquently and expect others to listen and be moved—because we started by listening and by allowing the possibility that though we and they disagree, we are working together in good faith to find truth.
What:
Listener's Way Training: Interactive Communications Workshop for Progressive Activism
When:
Saturday, September 10, 2005
10 AM to 12:30 PM
Where:
American Friends Service Committee Office
980 N. Fair Oaks Ave.
Pasadena, CA 91103
Registration is free,
http://www.latinosforamerica.com/listenerway2005
For more information email or call:
Steven Gibson
sgibson AT afsc.org
626-791-1978 ext 130
P.S. Save the Date
We are presenting a Panel Discussion on Oct 9th in Fuller Theological Seminary on the topic "What is Moral Values, Anyway?" We will have 3 ministers, a Rabbi and a secular panelist, moderated by the Religion Writer for the Los Angeles Times for a 2 1/2 hour discussion. More info at:
