Deep Listening Intensive, Huissen, Netherlands. 20 - 23 March 2026

 Deep Listening Intensive

Transforming communication at all levels  

In-person course delivered in English

With Rosamund Oliver 

Friday 20th March – Monday 23rd 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.

Participants gain information about their own way of listening through a variety of interactive exercises designed to reflect what is truly happening in listening. This approach is suitable for communicating with people from all walks of life and with all types of team working. Appreciating our different ways of communicating is central to this method.

The three core skills of this method - Embodied Awareness, Supportive Presence and Compassionate Connection - are explored by participants throughout the course in an experiential and interactive way. We also use meditation and reflection to deepen experiences of embodied compassionate communication. A key focus throughout is integration by using practical ways to bring this into our work and in everyday life. The course is presented in English and the listening exercises take place in your own language.

Topics covered during the course

Deep Listening Training is designed to deepen participant’s capacity for listening at all levels of communication in work or clinical situations using specific practical tools. The following areas are addressed:

• The three core skills of Embodied Awareness, Supportive Presence and Generating Compassion.
• Extending awareness of what arises in the listening encounter, both spoken and unspoken.
• Applying evidence-based contemplative practices to support effective communication.
• Generating compassionate, embodied listening to build greater resilience for the listener, with less exhaustion and burnout.
• Enhanced ways of self-reflective listening, as part of self-discovery and self-supervision.
• Integration of this method back into work and life.

Training methods used

• Experiential and interactive sessions.
• Guided reflections and contemplations.
• A variety of specially designed listening exercises.
• Short topical presentations with time for questions and discussion.
• Practical ways of integrating methods in listening situations.
• Interactive group work with both large and small groups.
• Journaling. Time for self-reflection, integration and personal work.

For whom? As basic listening skills are not covered, this course is designed for people who already have experience of using listening as an essential part of their work or life activity. This is an experiential training and places are limited. Places are in high demand so immediate booking is advised.

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

Course fee: €845. Price per training. Includes meals, drinks and overnight stay 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.