DEBORAH EDEN TULL

Listening to the Invisible:

a 2-Year Immersion in Relational PRESENCE & embodied Leadership

Join an emergent movement in relational mindfulness spanning personal and collective transformation

November 9, 2024 – September 12, 2026

Registration is now closed.

This training is an opportunity to be part of a 2-year journey and emergent movement in deep listening, partnership with nature, and post-patriarchal relational leadership. Facilitation is a living practice, a calling, an art, and a form of embodiment. It is a path of respect and reverence for the mystery. Listening to the Invisible will empower you to skillfully guide Relational Mindfulness for groups and one-on-one. It will also call you forth to deeper healing and transformation within yourself. This is not merely a training, but a sacred container for personalized growth and conscious response to the times we are facing.

Each of you are unique. As part of our community learning, each of you will be called to inquire compassionately and courageously in distinctive ways, to shed old ways of being and perceiving, and to embrace your connection with the earth and the medicine you carry more fully on behalf of our collective.  

This training invites you to embrace the mystery - through listening to the invisible. We will work with the wisdom that knowing less is knowing more and that getting out of the way is the path of freedom, unity, and wholehearted service.

Drawing from the teachings of Buddhism, engaged mindfulness, earth-based practices, and the wisdom of the natural world, this training empowers people to live and facilitate the 9 principles of Relational Mindfulness, which carry personal, interpersonal, transpersonal, ecological, mystical, and societal implications. What awakens within and through us when we are willing to listen more deeply to ourselves, to one another, to our earth bodies, and to the elemental and more-than-human world? What re-awakens when we are willing to listen from the ground of Being rather than doing?

Prerequisites:

• Participants shall have:

  • Read Relational Mindfulness: A Handbook for Deepening Our Connection with Ourselves, Each Other, and the Planet and Luminous Darkness: An Engaged Buddhist Approach to Embracing the Unknown

  • Completed the Heart of Listening: On Behalf of Our Collective
    or another significant mindfulness or dharma-based facilitation training

  • If you have not worked with her in the past, you will be asked to engage in a 20-minute exploratory interview with her to determine if this training is a fit

SOME OF THE Themes We Will Explore:

• Deep Embodied Listening as a Practice of Partnership with Nature

• The Quiet Strength of Receptivity

• Emptiness as the Heart of Facilitation

• Shared Power: The Invitation of Post-Patriarchal Leadership

• The Role of Eco-Dharma in Relational Mindfulness

• The Subtleties of Inquiry - One on One and in Groups

• The Role of Somatic Awareness in Deep Listening 

• Embodiment & The Elemental World

• Collaboration, Community Intelligence, and Conflict

• Personal & Collective Shadow Work

• The Gifts and Shadows of a Sensitive Energetic System

• Energetic Hygiene for Facilitation/Leadership

• Restorative Practices for Regenerative Leadership

• Humility and Authentic Confidence

• Holding Collective Trauma with Integrity

• Ethics and Right Use of Power

• Relational Mindfulness as an Expression of Sacred Activism/Sacred Justice

• The Invitation of Spiritual Maturity: Holding Curiosity While Holding Conviction

• Creativity, Play, and Conscious Use of the Imagination

• Kalyanna Mitta (Spiritual Friendship)

There is also room for emergent topics and needs that will arise organically within the 2 years we work together.

the ARCHITECTURE of the training:

The structure of this training is intended to create a lasting community and circle of skillful, empowered, compassionate, and embodied Relational Mindfulness facilitators.

• Online group gathering: once a month for 1.5 hours*

• Two-day online immersions: 5 total, one in 2024 then two a year

• Private mentoring sessions with Eden: 13 total, about every other month

• Kalyanna Mitta (Spiritual Friendship) Partners: for deep listening & mindful inquiry practice

• Review and feedback: Eden will review and give feedback of participant’s teaching videos. Two mentoring sessions will be used for this purpose.

• Resource page: with guided practices, an extensive library of teaching resources, and recorded sessions

• *At the end of each 90-minute online session, there is the option to stay on for 30-60 minutes for peer-led reflection and practice.

• Additionally, white facilitators are encouraged to attend the day-long retreat Exploring Whiteness: A Collective Liberation Practice for White Allies and Accomplices with Eden and Mary Ann Gallo - date TBD

• Note: If additional sessions or trainings are planned within the 2 years, they'll be offered on a donation basis

DATES:

Online group gatherings
1.5 hr, 9 am Pacific Time, 12 noon Eastern Time
2024: Nov 9, Dec 15 (*Note change from original date of Nov 17)
2025: Feb 8, Mar 8, Apr 12, May 10, Jun 14, Jul 12, Aug 9, Sep 13, Oct 11, Nov 8, Dec 13
2026: Jan 10, Feb 14, Mar 14, Apr 11, May 9, Jun 13, Jul 11, Aug 8, Sep 12

Two-day online immersions

10:30 am PT - 1 pm PT and 2 pm PT - 3 pm PT

March 8th and March 9th, intentionally close to spring equinox

September 20 and 21st, 2025, autumn equinox

This program will be an intimate group of no more than 24 people. This program will fill, and we encourage you to apply by August 1st.

Once you fill out the application and you are accepted into the program, then you pay to confirm your place in the course. Please contact us if you need to set up a Payment Plan or wish to apply for a partial scholarship. We are a small non-profit and we do our best to make this work available to people in the face of a dispassionate economy. Our scholarship fund depends upon donations from our larger community. If you sign up for the Generosity Rate, you support someone else to sign up through the Financial Hardship Rate. If you are in a position to donate to our Scholarship Fund and make an even bigger difference in someone’s life, you can do so here.

Please note that due to the limited number of spots in the cohort, there will be a strict cancellation policy. We have a firm cancellation policy that once a training begins, there are no refunds offered. We can refund 50% of your tuition up to 1 month before training begins. This is because we have a set number of places in this training and we commit to someone's participation once they make their commitment, thus turning others away. Thank you for understanding. The $50 administrative fee is non-refundable. Due to the intimate nature of this training/mentorship, there is a mutual commitment from both parties--as accepting you into this cohort means turning another interested individual away.