Deep Listening and Existential Concerns, Huissen, Netherlands. 16 - 18 March 2026

Deep Listening and Existential Concerns

This three-day course in Deep Listening and Existential Concerns is for anyone who has completed 4 days of our Deep Listening training 

In-person course delivered in English 

With Rosamund Oliver 

Monday 16th March – Wednesday 18th March 2026

For more details and to book click on the link 'Booking', below. This will take you to the host website, with details of the course in Dutch and English.

For more information about this course please contact:
Anne Goossensen
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Deep Listening is a complete practical training using the transformational method of Awareness Centred Deep Listening Training (ACDLT®) designed by Rosamund Oliver, which harnesses the life-changing potential of bringing simple awareness to listening.

Participants will find that this course complements their existing communication skills as they personally experience the ability of the naturally aware listening mind to hold a safe listening container.

The course is presented in English and the listening exercises take place in your own language.

Existential concerns arise in the following five human life situations:

• Impermanence and Death - limitations in life
• Meaning and Meaninglessness
• Freedom, Responsibility and Agency
• Isolation
• Emotions, Experience and Embodiment

Identified by the European philosophical tradition, these existential concerns are described as part of the human condition. These concerns can arise at any time in our life, providing an opportunity to deepen our understanding of and connection to life while at the same time often creating experiences of vulnerability and uncertainty. Although this is a natural part of human existence, these situations can impact us deeply. Ongoing experiences of isolation, impermanence, lack of freedom, or meaninglessness, for example, seem difficult to change and can lead to crisis.

Reflecting on these, through a process of deep listening, can help us to find how to live more easily with these concerns, often leading to greater meaning in our life and well-being. As a deep listener, we can use this experience of listening to these concerns within ourselves, to see how we can support others meeting these same challenges in their lives.
This will be a rich field of exploration for us in our Advanced Deep Listening Group, which we will do through a variety of exercises, discussions and meditations.

Location: St. Dominicanenklooster Huissen, Stadsdam 1, 6851 AH Huissen, Netherlands.

Course fee: €645. Price per training. Includes meals, drinks and 2 overnight stays in a single room. Excludes tourist tax.

Each day commences at 9:30 and concludes at 17:30. 

For more details and to book click on the link 'Booking', below. This will take you to the host website, with details of the course in Dutch and English.

For more information about this course please contact:
Anne Goossensen
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

 

 

Rosamund Oliver is an international trainer who founded the Awareness Centred Deep Listening method. She teaches this method of Deep Listening internationally, in Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, UK and Spain and online.

As a psychotherapist , as well as working with clients, she taught spiritual care in hospices, and created a prison meditation project. She continues to show listeners how to combine contemplative insight and awareness with listening and communication.

She participated in a full time three year Buddhist retreat and now regularly teaches meditation and compassion methods both online and directly in-person. 

 

 

 

 

 

Anne Goossensen is the point of contact for the organization of the training in terms of content. She works as Professor of Listening and Quality of Human Connection at the University for Humanistics in Utrecht and as well as Lector (professor) in End-of-Life Care at Hogeschool Avans in Breda.