Offering a New Facilitator Training Program on Zoom
Coming Together, Working to Nourish the Whole
In 2025, after publishing Listening Circles: Seeding Life, I heard from many of you who were inspired by the book, and who encouraged me to offer a program for women who feel drawn to hold a Listening Circle: Seeding Life in their community.
Why is it called Listening Circles: Seeding Life? Because if we learn to value listening, we will learn to hear the deeper stream that flows beneath the surface of life. This capacity of listening gives us access to a way of working that can nourish and heal life.
This program is for any woman who longs to live more deeply in service to life. For those who want to practice the gift of compassion, wisdom, or love, within the fields of women and homelessness, social services, education, or in a circle with friends. We have found that the training enriches the lives of both facilitators and participants.
We will focus on the feminine principles which seed change – listening, holding, stillness, compassion. These are some of the principles which provide the foundation for caring for, and bring healing to, the life around us.
We will cover the following:
- Gathering Together: An introduction to Listening Circles: Seeding Life
- Creating Our Belonging: Nurturing Ourselves, Others & the Earth
- Opening to Our Light: Growing Compassion & Capacity to Listen
- Finding Strength in the Quiet: Discovering Tools and Inner Resources
Our next 4-session Facilitator Training on Zoom will be hosted by The Red Shoes on:
Sept 9th, Sept 23rd, Oct 7th and Oct 21st
5.30pm – 7.00pm Central Standard Time
Participants are asked to attend all four sessions.
The cost is $135, which covers the 4 sessions. (If you’re unable to pay this amount, please contact The Red Shoes for financial assistance.)
We ask that you read Anne’s book Listening Circles: Seeding Life, as it’s a manual for the Facilitator Training. You can purchase the book here.
In Anne’s books over the last 25 years, she has shared stories from women, often women in homelessness, demonstrating how the inner affects the outer – and how compassion, listening, holding, stillness, all work to seed change. This is evidence-based work showing the certain strength that comes from this feminine way of working.
We hope you’ll join us!
Register HereIn her own words Anne speaks about how coming together can nourish life: