Listening With Love

An afternoon of Learning to Listen With Your Heart

If our hearts had ears, we would meet each other with deep respect, tenderness, and attention. Imagine the gentle presence of a wise grandparent listening to a child — patient, warm, and fully attuned, using not only their ears but their whole being.

This is the kind of listening that softens the heart — and it is beautifully simple to learn. Being listened to in this way feels like being bathed in kindness, even by someone you may have only just met. Stress begins to melt, and a sense of ease returns.

As you practice this gentle technique, you become the wise, patient grandparent — whenever you choose. Imagine moving through your day with more calm, openness, love, and non-judgment. Practicing this form of listening regularly creates deep, authentic connection between you and your listening partners.

Sanctuaries for Humanity offers workshops designed to help you discover the sanctuary within yourself — that quiet inner place that welcomes all that you are, without judgment. Here you can rediscover peace and steadiness, simply through the act of caring. All it takes is practice. During this one-day workshop, we help you form your own Listening With Love group — a heartfelt way to grow, to bond, and to know you are truly held in love.

Keep walking, though there is no place to get to.
Don’t try to see through the distances.
That’s not for human beings.
Move within—
but don’t move the way fear makes you move.

— Rumi

Refreshments and lunch will be provided. Please specify any dietary requirements.

Sign up: QR Code and email:  andrew@sanctuariesforhumanity.org