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Begin with deep listening. Honor local knowledge and wisdom.
Read allBegin with deep listening. Honor local knowledge and wisdom.
Read allWe offer trainings to humanitarian organizations, community leaders and other individuals in how to use deep listening to nurture flourishing communities.
We identify and welcome emerging community leaders into a mutually supportive network.
We offer free webinars that offer a space of support and deep listening.
Community wellness is based on a public health approach with two assumptions. First, most illnesses are preventable, including various types of mental illness. Second, the community itself contains many solutions to its own health needs and already has many techniques to encourage resilience and wellness.
Read moreThis short video explains Focusing and how simple it is to learn and to use. It is written by Cynthia Spellman, MD and animated by Ruslan Mityayev.
Read moreNo one calls Muhammad Ali by just one of his names. He is never just “Muhammad” or just “Ali”, but always both names together “Muhammad Ali” like the American boxer. His father named him after the famous American because that great man struggled from poverty […]
Someone calls us and asks for help with a local community project. Usually this person has worked with us previously or has taken our webinars or participated in one of our psychosocial support classes. The project may be already existing or it may be no […]
In two posts on our new Psychosocial Support website, Wajid describes two important events that impacted him, as a social worker in Pakistan. In “12 Years Later, PSS Training Continues to Support Change” he describes the time in 2010 when residents of the region were […]
An Interview with Anna Willman, in conversation with Dana Hercbergs I met Anna in 2021 through the Focusing community and occasionally attended her weekly Saturday Listening Space, an online peer support group. Her facilitation style melds her own grounded attention with her wonderful sense of […]
Our “Circle of Care” is assisting two Afghan families (two men, two women, and three children under the age of three) in Western Massachusetts. The women are home with the children all the time while the husbands are working. Over the last year, we had […]
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