Deep Listening Practice, Klooster, Huissen. 4 - 6 April 2027

Deep Listening Practice

Integrating Deep Listening in Real-Life Situations

In-person course in English over two days 

With Rosamund Oliver

Sunday 4th April 2027 19:30 CET - Tuesday 6th April 2027 15:00 CET 

The two-day Deep Listening Practice as a follow-on to Deep Listening Essentials. This part of the course is booked separately.

Deep Listening Practice is a follow-on course in Awareness Centred Deep Listening Training (ACDLT®) for those who have completed Deep Listening Essentialsor a similar introductory Deep Listening course. Building on the foundations introduced in Deep Listening Essentials this course enables participants to deepen and integrate the capacities of Embodied Presence, Spacious Awareness, and Compassionate Connection through practice, reflection, and application to real-life listening situations.

New themes are explored, including holding compassion while maintaining safety and boundaries, recognising vulnerability and unmet needs hidden within communication, and developing resilience for the listener. Through experiential exercises, contemplative practice, reflection, and discussion, participants explore integrating Deep Listening into both professional and personal communication.

The course may be taken after Deep Listening Essentials, to consolidate, deepen and extend previous learning. The course is given in English.

Topics covered during the course

What you will learn

• New ways to deepen and apply the three foundational capacities of ACDLT®
• How to strengthen capacities of groundedness, presence, and connectedness in effective listening
• Approaches to develop greater confidence and resilience for the listener.

Course content

New themes are explored:

• Developing greater subtlety and responsiveness in communication
• Awareness of how to reduce empathic distress and burnout
• Developing resilience through applying true compassion rather than just empathy
• Recognising the hidden or unsaid within communication such as unmet needs
• The value of vulnerability, shame, uncertainty
• Working compassionately while maintaining safety and appropriate boundaries
• Exploring how findings from psychology and neuroscience support effective listening, compassion, and resilience.

 

Training methods used

We offer the following variety of methods:

• 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? Deep Listening Practice is for anyone who has already completed the two days of Deep Listening Essentials available on Friday 2nd – Sunday 4th April 2027.

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 and English.

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.