Pathways to the Heart - Compassionate Listening

The Compassionate Listening Project is dedicated to empowering people and communities to transform conflict, cultivate resilience, and enhance their capacity to be change-makers in their lives, communities, and in the world.

A Heart to Heart: Compassionate Listening

Tali Goodfriend, TEDx Montreal

How do we find common ground with people we oppose or disagree with?  We are generally more focused on expressing our views than listening to the other's point of view.  Compassionate listening is a process we can use to bridge our differences. 

Compassionate Listening for Israeli and Palestinian Peace Leaders

Beit Jala, West Bank, Palestine

The Compassionate Listening Project began working in Israel and Palestine in 1990. In addition to our annual delegations, we've been offering trainings for Israelis and Palestinians since 1998. 

This short film brings us inside a Compassionate Listening Training for 34 peace and community leaders from Israel and Palestine. The training took place in Palestine, and was facilitated by Leah Green, founder of the Compassionate Listening Project, along with Palestinian facilitator Maha El-Taji Tahsin.

Children of Abraham

Compassionate Listening in Israel and Palestine

Twenty-two Jewish Americans travelled to Israel, the West Bank and Gaza with the Compassionate Listening Project. Children of Abraham is a 34-minute broadcast-quality documentary that chronicles this journey. The film follows the Jewish participants as they visit with and listen to Israelis and Palestinians – from leaders to refugees, and seek to understand the complexities of religious, political and human rights issues. Participants include Jewish leaders and professionals ranging from secular to observant. This beautiful documentary introduces the Compassionate Listening reconciliation model, and humanizes each Israeli and Palestinian portrayed. The film delivers a compelling message that conflict can be transformed through listening with compassion.

Compassionate Listening for Schools

Part 1

A Compassionate Listening curriculum for schools! Students at St. Francis of Assisi Middle School in Louisville, Kentucky talk about what they've learned from Familiae Pacis, the Compassion Project, created by award-winning science teacher Fred Whittaker. In this peace education program, the lives of strangers become the ideal place for students to initiate their understanding of human pain and the importance of being a person who must reach out to others. 

Compassionate Listening for Schools

Part II

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The Power of Compassionate Listening

Gil Bar-Sela

How simple Compassionate Listening tools can help transform and resolve conflict, by Compassionate Listening Project facilitator, Gil Bar-Sela

Introduction to the Compassionate Listening Project

Compassion in Action

This video was created as a basic introduction to the history and work of the Compassionate Listening Project.

Included are interview clips with founder, Leah Green, and senior trainers Andrea Cohen and Susan Partnow, as well as participants. The film focuses on our work in Israel and Palestine and our former work with Germans and Jews, as well as discussing the basic curriculum that we teach worldwide.

Jewish-German Compassionate Listening

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The Jewish-German Compassionate Listening Project was founded in 2002 by Beate Ronnefeld and Leah Green, to provide an opportunity to advance Jewish-German reconciliation and healing. The project brought together Jews, Germans, and those affected by World War II, to explore beliefs and to humanize the “other”. Through Compassionate Listening training, personal sharing and hearing the stories of witnesses, participants deepened their understanding of the complex wounds generated by WW II and the Holocaust, and experienced tremendous personal healing.