Advanced Deep Listening

Deepening Awareness, Connection, and Compassion in Listening

This live, experiential course is for listeners who wish to build upon the foundation of their previous deep listening training. It is open to those who have completed four to five days of Deep Listening Training and are ready to explore the subtler dimensions of engaged deep listening practice.

In this advanced level, we deepen our experiential understanding of how listening transforms both listener and speaker using the three core skills model of embodied awareness, supportive presence and compassionate connection. Through guided exercises, meditations, and reflections, we cultivate the awareness and sensitivity needed to meet others — and ourselves — with kindness, clarity, and presence.

Recent research in neuroscience and psychology reveals how profoundly we affect one another during communication — not only compassionately and emotionally, but also on physiological and neurological levels. In this course, we bring these insights alive through embodied awareness and the practice of true listening: recognising the mutual influence and resonance that take place whenever we truly meet another.

Themes and explorations include:

• Applying the model and method of Advanced Centred Deep Listening
• Exploring the nature of compassionate connection, and when is it not compassion
• Gentle awareness of the dynamics of vulnerability in listening relationships
• Applying the technique of “Focusing” to embodiment when listening
• Applying Deep Listening method in a range of settings and groups.
• Advice-giving and the role of discernment within the listening relationship
• Trauma sensitivity and awareness when listening
• Responding to the wide range of existential issues arising, as part of deep listening

This course offers a nourishing and safe container to experience ways of deepening confidence, presence, and relational depth through experiential deep listening.

Who is this For?

Follow-on course for previous participants who have completed 5-day Deep Listening Intensives at Dzogchen Beara or similar elsewhere. Places are in high demand so early booking is advised.

What people say about Deep Listening Intensive

“Thank you sincerely. This was the most helpful course I have ever done -twice!”. – Deborah, Therapist

“Again an inspiring and powerful few days.”

“This will be very helpful for me to apply in my work as well as in my personal life.”

“ Helped me to be present with my whole heart — that is what I am going to do in my work.””

“It is wonderful how safe the atmosphere felt and how we created a common feeling of compassion.”

“It was one big learning experience, very moving and powerful, transformative even.”

Location

The retreat will be held in the Dzogchen Beara Temple. With expansive views across the bay, the temple is a modern example of a traditional Tibetan monastery, a form of architecture designed to be an inspiring symbol of the Buddha’s teachings for our times.