Deepening Our Listening Skills - Session 1: Creative Listening (November 21, 2026)

This is the first of three workshops focusing on sharpening our ability to listen deeply.  To register for all three, please visit: Deepening Our Listening Skills – All 3 Sessions.

We are surrounded by noise both inside of us, and outside of us.  Many things are competing for our attention.  It is easy to just stop listening to ourselves, each other and the more-than-human world around us.  Listening deeply is a way to honor the ways the Divine is reaching out to us.  It is planting seeds for receiving wisdom that is so needed in today’s struggling world.  Deep listening is not just listening with one’s ears, but with one’s whole being.

Session 1: Creative Listening (November 21, 2026)

Using artmaking with accessible directives that provide structure and freedom we will focus on listening and observing.  Weather permitting, we will create art outside.  When we create art we slow down, we look at things differently, we pay attention differently, we notice new things.  Artmaking is a way to quiet the noise inside and help us listen deeply.

Each session will begin with a time of centering using breathwork, poetry, and music to help us ground and center ourselves.  We will have opportunity to spend time outside in nature, where we will dress for the weather and experience the change in seasons.  We will also have space inside to gather and to journal.

Each session will end with the opportunity to listen and to share what we have heard, noticed, and wondered about from our experience.  It is a profound experience to listen deeply and also profound to be listened to in a deep way.  It can help us find words for and validate our own unique experience.