Learning to Listen
Zoom
Event Details
During these times of chaotic busyness, distraction and division, one practice has the potential to effect enormous change. Listening.
In this session, we will be talking about sparking systems change through the simple act of listening in a new way - to ourselves and to each other. We will discuss the central importance of the quality of our awareness in designing genuine inclusive solutions to the systemic challenges we face.
In order to co-create the transformative solutions we are seeking, we must slow down and pay close attention to what is speaking from the future through each of us. To do this we need to listen carefully.
Participants will:
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Practice a few different modes of speaking and listening with a partner
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Identify how different approaches feel somatically and emotionally
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Gain tools to begin noticing the quality of their presence and listening in their everyday lives
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Reflect on how it feels to be heard
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Leave feeling excited about connecting with others in new ways that nourish them, others, and the world.
Intended Audience
Those leading organizations, teams, networks and movements - nonprofit leaders, staff and volunteers - who are curious about their role in making change and who seek to strengthen their influence as actors within systems.
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Cost + Registration
- Pay What You Can Pricing for MANP Members + Nonmembers
- Pricing Tiers: $45 / $55 / $65
- Participants will receive login instructions in the registration confirmation e-mail as well as in reminder emails that will be sent one day and one hour prior to the event.
- This session will be recorded and made publicly available for all registered participants for 30 days. However, this session is interactive and will be utilizing breakout rooms, so live attendance is highly encouraged.
- This MANP-hosted webinar will be hosted in Zoom Meeting and we ask participants turn off their cameras and mute themselves when joining.
Accessibility
MANP is committed to ensuring all participants are accommodated at our events. If you have accessibility needs, please email us at Learn@NonprofitMaine.org with your request no fewer than 10 business days prior to the event.
About the Presenter
Jennifer Chace is the co-founder and executive director of The Source School, a Maine nonprofit coming alongside schools to strengthen the human capacity to care, understand, and transform, creating schools where each of us feels hope and knows we matter. She is also the assistant director of both the Maine Education Policy Research Institute and the Center for Education Policy, Applied Research, and Evaluation at the University of Southern Maine where she is the principal investigator on the Maine Education 2050 project. The throughline in all of her research is listening to and lifting up underheard voices to influence policy shaping our everyday lives. Jennifer holds an M.Ed. and a Ph.D. in public policy with a concentration in educational leadership.