This training is for practitioners, leaders, organisers, writers, educators, managers, poets ... anyone with a story in your heart and desire to foster the spaces for speaking and listening.

YOUR HOSTS
Deirdre Downie and Diana Coverdale, who have invited CHRISTINA BALDWIN & ANN LINNEA (author and co-founder of PeerSpirit Inc.) to guide a day of practice and skill building in the art of circle and story.

ABOUT THIS TRAINING
Discovering people's stories is essential to sustaining relationships, residing in community, and working together. Story provides the foundation for how we organise ourselves to get life's business done.

In an increasingly complex world, where texting and email are often our primary means of communication, the practice of sitting down together and putting ourselves intentionally into a narrative context is an essential leadership skill.

Two essential processes found to facilitate a deep shift in how we people come together in groups to hear each other, especially in times of change and transition, will be role-modeled in this training:

1. Circle is the practice of creating space where every voice is heard; it is the study of listening as much as it is the practice of speaking.
2. Story offers us a way to hear what's really being said; a means to recognise and appreciate the essence of identity; and a way of knowing that we know each other.

You are invited to attend this training to:

• Experience - Circle and Storycatching as two complementary methodologies that can be powerfully woven together;
• Learn - The essence of each methodology and the art of adapting circle and story in different contexts; and
• Extend - The network of practitioners who are utilizing these methods and supporting one another in furthering their use.

For additional details of this training, please download the workshop's flyer below.

DETAILS & HOW TO REGISTER
When:
- 9am to 5pm on Thursday the 18th of November, 2010

Where:
- Community Room at the Abbotsford Convent (1 St Heliers Street, Abbotsford)

Investment:
- $395 per delegate.

Your investment includes:
- Morning & afternoon tea; and
- Lunch.

How to register:
To register to attend The Listening Well, contact the workshop's hosts:

• Deirdre Downie on djdownie@insightnow.com.au or 0412 211 681
• Diana Coverdale on diana@gatewaydc.com.au or 0412 162 053

ABOUT THE CONVENERS & TRAINERS FOR THIS WORKSHOP

Dierdre Downie
Deirdre engages with individuals, organizations, and communities to co-create new ways of working together: reweaving the container for more meaningful conversations.

Diana Coverdale
Diana is a leadership and personal development consultant, psychotherapist, and Storycatcher. She enjoys co-creating the awakening and living of new stories for individuals and groups using circle as both container and receptacle for wisdom.

Christina Baldwin
Christina founded the journal writing movement with her first book in the 1970s and she has been exploring story as leadership throughout her career. This training day is based on two titles: The Circle Way: A Leader in Every Chair (co-authored with Ann), and Storycatcher: Making Sense of our Lives through the Power and Practice of Story (recommended readings). She and Ann are world elders in circle and story who have taught in North America, Europe, and Africa and are delighted to be visiting Australia.

Anne Linnea
Anne is a pioneer in environmental awareness and earth stewardship. She is the author of the educational and award winning Teaching Kids to Love the Earth , and most recently her legacy book, Keepers of the Trees. Ann joined with Christina to develop PeerSpirit Circle Process and they have taught together since 1991.

For complete information on Christina and Anne's contributions and professional breadth and products see their websites: www.peerspirit.com & www.storycatcher.net.