Partnering Lesson 10. Active Compassionate Listening HC
Summary of skill
- Creating a transformational space through silence, using hospitality, curiosity, discernment, and joining with others in celebration of perfection of being: this is a ground of being for practicing spiritual counseling, and a technique in its own right
- Energy skill
- Personality attitude
- Body language
Activity
- Discussion about spiritual counseling/transformational shifts
- Partner exercise
- Practitioner prepares energy
- Practitioner greets client
- Client fills out registration forms
- Client presents issue
- Practitioner prepares energy
- Practitioner offers transmission, drawing on earlier trainings/in the ways most natural for the practitioner
- Practitioner closes the vortex
- Practitioner checks in with client
- Take a break.
- Write up your experiences as client and write up your experiences as facilitator, using the Practicum form (download it using the link below)
- Switch roles and repeat the exercise
Resources for reflection & discussion
- Core Lesson 006, Amy Skezas, Offering Spiritual Counseling, “Seven Basic Skills” and “Attentive LIstening with Compassion,” pp. 7 – 21
- Anne & Charles Simpkinson, “Feeding One Another” in Mark Brady, ed., The Wisdom of Listening, pp. 40 – 45
- Karen Armstrong, Twelve Steps to Living a Compassionate Life, pp. 8 – 23
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