Deep Listening Essentials, Klooster, Huissen. 2 - 4 April 2027

Deep Listening Essentials

Exploring the transforming power of open, attentive listening

In-person course in English over two days 

With Rosamund Oliver

Friday 2nd April 2027 19:30 CET - Sunday 4th April 2027 15:00 CET 

To ensure meaningful communication with others, we often seek ways to listen more in depth. Deep Listening Essentials is an experiential and practical course that introduces Awareness Centred Deep Listening Training (ACDLT®), a unique approach developed by Rosamund Oliver. This evidence-informed method helps participants learn the foundations of the Deep Listening method:

1. Embodied Presence
   
2. Spacious Awareness
   
3. Compassionate Connection

Bringing together insights from psychology, neuroscience, and compassion-based approaches, we explore how practical listening skills drawing on awareness and compassion can be applied immediately in both professional and personal settings. Participants learn how to remain grounded and attentive while listening, create a safe and supportive space for others, and respond compassionately without becoming overwhelmed or drawn into fixing problems.

Participants consistently describe the training as both enjoyable and transformative, reporting increased confidence, greater ease in listening, enhanced resilience, and a deeper ability to support others. The course is given in English.

Topics covered during the course

What you will learn

The Deep Listening method is based on three foundational capacities:

• Embodied Presence Remaining grounded, centred, and connected with yourself while listening.
• Spacious Awareness Creating the conditions in which others feel heard, understood, and respected.
• Compassionate Connection Responding with warmth, clarity, and effectiveness while maintaining healthy boundaries and resilience.

Course content

Participants explore:

• The ACDLT® model and its practical application
• The power of embodied presence and attentive listening
• How the listening environment influences communication
• Working with distractions, assumptions, and the impulse to rescue or fix
• Using self-compassion to reduce listener fatigue
• Recent findings from psychology and neuroscience relevant to listening and human connection
• Practical ways of integrating Deep Listening into everyday professional and personal situations

Training methods used

Our approach:

Deep Listening training is experiential and interactive. Participants learn through specially designed listening exercises, guided reflections, contemplative practices, and discussions in both small and large groups. The emphasis is on direct experience and practical application. Short presentations provide the conceptual framework, and experiential exercises enable participants to discover how Deep Listening can be integrated into real-life settings.

 After our training participants frequently report

• Greater confidence in listening situations
• Enhanced communication and relationship skills
• Reduced stress and listening fatigue
• Greater emotional groundedness and self-awareness
• Improved professional effectiveness
• Increased capacity to support others with clarity and compassion.

For whom? This course is designed for people who already have experience of using the skill of listening and who wish to strengthen their listening skills. We welcome diversity and unique experience.

• Chaplains and pastoral workers
• Health and social care professionals
• Counsellors and psychotherapists
• Coaches and mentors
• Teachers and educators
• Volunteers and community workers
• Managers and team leaders
• Carers and support workers.

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

Course fee: €575. Includes meals, drinks and overnight stay in a single room. Excludes tourist tax. 

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.

For more information about the organisation of this course please contact:
Anja de Kruijf
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Rosamund Oliver is a psychotherapist, meditation teacher, and founder of Awareness Centred Deep Listening Training (ACDLT®).

She developed ACDLT® to support meaningful, compassionate, and effective communication in professional and personal life. She teaches people from all professions and walks of life in courses and dedicated retreats, regarding listening as a form of human connection that can support transformation and healing at all levels.

Originally trained as a UKCP-registered psychotherapist, Rosamund previously worked in both private practice and NHS mental health services. Her approach integrates insights from psychology, neuroscience and contemplative traditions. She co-authored the chapter Deep Listening in the Routledge publication Mindful Communication (2023).

 

 

 

 

Anja de Kruif is a health scientist, qualitative researcher and certified Deep Listener. Her work explores the significance of listening, stories and lived experience in healthcare, health and everyday life. For her, Deep Listening offers a space for genuine encounter, attentive presence and human connection. For enquiries: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.