“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.”
Mark Van Doren
THE Heart of Listening TESTIMONIALS
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Taking the 6 month course “The Heart of Listening “ was one of the most inspiring ,nourishing and insightful classes I’ve participated in. My hope was to deepen my personal practice and in turn re-inspire myself as a longtime (10 years plus) sangha facilitator in the Thich Nhat Hanh tradition. Each class was taught with so much compassion , understanding, wisdom and love , it uplifted and encouraged me on my path. It truly renewed my energy to keep on embracing all things in life, challenges , dreams and joy . Eden is a very gifted dharma teacher , my heartfelt gratitude to her for bringing awareness , guidance and compassion to our world.
- Ania Semper
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Grateful is an understatement for how I feel about the impact of you in my life. Eden’s teachings have completely transformed my professional work. Before, I used to feel the pressure of perfectionism, to lead different teams, knowing people were expecting a great deal for me. Through powerful practices and seeing environmental protection in a different way thanks to her teachings, I now approach my community building work using a “power with” paradigm. We do better, more powerful, more sustainable, more creative work when all people in the group are approached as leaders.
- Lena Adams Kim, Environmental Protection Agency
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Deep listening is a great revealer, and brings compassion to this ongoing investigation of healing our relationship with the self, with one another, and with our planet.
The course allowed me to connect to my inner voice with fierce compassion.
The guiding reflection and the lessons we engaged with as a community brought forward my voice as a strength.
As a survivor of sex trafficking and as an indigenous leader, this program also brought forth acknowledgment of resources and supported my commitment to serving the collective.
- Cari Herthel, Vice Chair Woman, Esselen Tribe of Monterey County
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I recently completed the Heart of Listening training with Deborah Eden Tull. I cannot recommend this program enough. I am a facilitator of individuals and small groups, and also do a lot of public speaking, including giving artists talks. The content from this program helped me in every aspect, both as an individual and in this work. There are countless gems that I took away from the program, it felt that every week was synchronistic to what was happening in my life. Ultimately, it just made me feel more grounded, more confident, and just more able to co-create and flow and be in the moment in all the work that I do. I could list an endless amount of praise and different takeaways and things that I learned, but I'll stop here and just encourage you to sign up.
- JenMarie Landig
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There are so many reasons I would recommend Eden's Heart of Listening Facilitator Training.
True to Eden’s teachings in Relational Mindfulness, The Heart of Listening Facilitator Training Program guides us to trusting our true nature and stillness when it comes to facilitation and leadership. The training offers the safety of an unconditionally loving container in which I was able to explore both the gifts and shadows of what I bring to my life and to facilitation. I was able to see more clearly and thus move into a source of trust and strength that feels more like home than a goal outside myself to “achieve.”
I so appreciate the non-linear, intuitive, and powerful teachings I received and deepened in myself through this training. I wish every person who holds space for others had the opportunity to engage in these teachings. I have experienced a profound shift in how aI hold space as a facilitator. Perhaps the biggest surprise in this is seeing how engaging in the practices through this training impacts how I show up in all my relationships.
I am filled with gratitude for the mentorship I receive from Eden, for the connections I have made with the people in my cohort, and for the deepening of the connection with myself, others and the world. Thank you, Eden.
- Jodi Strock, LMFT
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The Heart of Listening Facilitator Training - how to describe this 6 month journey? It is at once a deeply personal exploration and an exploration of "How do I stand and serve in the world?"... a compassionate reckoning and opportunity for growth. Eden's true and easy presence and her incredible well of mindful inquiry applications blow me away each time we meet. Our group meetings were a forum to share what teachings we have applied to our lives, our partnership with a fellow students were a way to practice vulnerability and being deeply present with ourselves and the other, and our monthly calls with Eden allowed us to truly meet ourselves and step into the beautiful, imperfect, perfect being we all are. I have developed greater self-confidence in public settings, especially those contexts where I used to uncomfortable. I have learned to speak from a "this is who I am" place - more in touch with and settled into deep stillness. The Heart of Listening allows you to create your own artist's palette of how you love yourself and how you show up in the world - based on your formal mediation practice and on your informal practice of presence.
- Summer Meyer, Sustainability consultant and CEO of Imagine Mindfulness
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This program has helped reduce the pressure I feel in needing to be “the expert” when leading and to show up to guide groups as my full heart and full self. Eden is a remarkable, kind, and inspiring presence. I am very grateful for the opportunity to learn from her. Each course I have taken helps me remember who I am, get myself out of the way and tune in more deeply into service.
- Anne Johnston
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I have benefited deeply from this in-depth look into how I show up as a facilitator. The Heart of Listening has helped me really understand how to show up in an honest and authentic way, not only in sessions that I lead, but in my personal life as well. With Eden’s insight and thoughtful guidance, I have reflections that will not only help me to deepen my own practice, but will help all those I work with and interact with. I feel these teachings are the cornerstone to progressing into a mindful way of leading in unity.
- Angeliki Captain Townsend
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Participating in Eden’s Heart of Listening course has significantly impacted how I relate to myself, others and the more-than-human world. In particular, the teachings and practices have given me powerful tools in my work as a conservation filmmaker with National Geographic Pristine Seas. Among many things,I have experienced large shifts in my interviewing abilities as I have now found a balance in just the right amount of preparation with trust in that giving my interviewee my full attention and listening deeply will provide the most authentic exchange verses sticking to my list of pre-prepared questions. I have learned that letting go of my agenda and being attentive to my collaborators and what wants to arise in the present moment is the most human and generous way I can show up for others in my work. This has given me so much more confidence. So much so that, it has now become a constant mantra for any human exchange to tell myself “Attention is the most subtle form of love.”
- Madison McClintock
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Thank you for the truly amazing chalice you held for us all last week. You are a truly skilled facilitator. Your healing blend of holding and insight were deeply seen and felt. Your book provided me with untold healing and affirmation from my time in the Buddhist world. I absorbed it quickly over the weekend because it was quenching me so profoundly, and now I am re-reading it, slowly.
- Brie Mathers
