“Deep Listening Intensive”
26th – 30th May
Thursday 12:30 – Monday 13:00
Presenters: Rosamund Oliver, Sonya Frearson and Vicky Lindsay
Gomde, Lindholme Hall, Yorkshire (Registration is on the Gomde website.)
Deep Listening Training is an advanced listening training enabling participants to develop a deeper capacity to hear within themselves. We will explore how to bring the inherent skills of embodied awareness, compassionate relationship and supportive presence directly into our listening. Combining understandings from contemporary psychology with the methodology of Buddhist compassion training and meditation, this approach combines well with other professional training. This training is for anyone who uses listening in his or her work.
Deep Listening Training has been developed by Rosamund Oliver since 2003 and is currently offered in Ireland, France, Germany, Netherlands, and UK. It has been a course at Haifa University Israel and at VU University Amsterdam. It is accredited as professional development training for GPs and other professionals in Netherlands and in Ireland. Attendance certificates will be given out.
“I found experiencing the deep listening and feeling its power, its spaciousness and deep connection with the listener very beneficial.” Hospital Chaplain
“This training provided me with the missing piece for my work for which I have been searching for so long.” Psychotherapist
“I had to come back and do this training a second time because it was so good the first time. I say again that this is the best training I have ever done twice.” Health Psychologist
Our Presenters:
Rosamund Oliver, BA, Dip Psych, ECP, qualified as a UKCP registered psychotherapist and supervisor. She worked with elderly bereaved patients at Homerton Hospital, taught nurses at St Joseph’s Hospice, co-created a prison meditation project and co-led a three-year Buddhist-based psychotherapy training in South Africa. As a trainer for Rigpa’s Spiritual Care Programme, she gives training to professionals in many countries. She has done extensive training in meditation and Buddhism including attending a full time three-year retreat.
Sonya Frearson has been involved in Spiritual Care since 2000. She has worked full-time as an NHS Clinical Psychologist since 2003 using therapeutic approaches including mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and compassionate mind training. Sonya trains on mindfulness-based approaches in clinical psychology training courses in London. Since training in Deep Listening in 2003 she has incorporated it into her listening work.
Vicky Lindsay MA, Dip Coaching, works in the addictions field as a Counsellor, Supervisor and Trainer. She trained with Bangor University in Mindfulness and currently provides MBSR courses in addictions services and community settings. She instructs in meditation and Buddhism for Rigpa courses in Birmingham and is a regular trainer presenting Deep Listening for Spiritual Care UK. She has studied Buddhism since 1974.