The Listening Circle Training
Lay the Groundwork for Organizational and Community Change
Join us in this online listening circle training for organizational and community leaders.
In this online training for organizational and community leaders, you’ll gain practical tools to foster trust, collaboration, and meaningful dialogue—allowing you to strengthen teams, navigate change, and drive progress.
Using the Listening Circle practice and principles, you will learn how to:
✔️ Cultivate inclusive, high-trust environments where diverse perspectives are valued and aligned around a shared mission.
✔️ Strengthen collaboration and innovation by facilitating conversations that bridge divides and generate fresh insights.
✔️ Lead with confidence and empathy, creating spaces where individuals feel heard, respected, and motivated to contribute.
This program is designed for leaders, facilitators, and changemakers who need to build trust and engagement in their teams and communities. Whether you’re navigating local challenges, leading a growing organization, or fostering cultural change, these skills will empower you to bring people together and create lasting impact.
By the end of this training, you will be able to:
✅ Facilitate productive, inclusive conversations that strengthen collaboration and decision-making.
✅ Move beyond assumptions and listen with clarity, allowing for deeper understanding and creative problem-solving.
✅ Gain insight into team dynamics and organizational culture to lead more strategically and effectively.
✅ Foster a growth-oriented environment, ensuring continuous development and adaptability in times of change.
This method is backed by research and practice, helping leaders and teams:
✔️ Develop cognitive, emotional, and somatic empathy
✔️ Strengthen individual and group confidence and effectiveness
✔️ Foster inclusivity and deeper understanding
✔️ Promote self-regulation and resilience
✔️ Support a culture of learning and growth
✔️ Sustain collaboration even in complex, high-stakes environments
This unique online training combines self-paced learning with four live practicum sessions (+ one optional Q&A session) in a small group setting (limited to 12 participants), ensuring personalized coaching and hands-on experience.
📅 March 27 | 8:45 AM - 11:00 AM (Pacific USA)
📅 March 28 | 8:45 AM - 11:00 AM (Pacific USA)
📅 April 3 | 8:45 AM - 11:00 AM (Pacific USA)
📅 April 4 | 8:45 AM - 11:00 AM (Pacific USA)
💡 Optional Q&A Office Hours | March 31 | 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM (Pacific USA)
To make this training more accessible during a time of change, we’re offering it at 45% off—from $350 to just $195.
Invest in skills that foster trust, collaboration, and resilience—for yourself, your team, and your community.
“As a leadership consultant and master coach with over 30 years of experience, working all over the world and facilitating groups, teams, and circles, I had some trepidation about going into this unknown training as a participant. Would the workshop challenge me? Would it hone my understanding of power relations in facilitation? Would I learn something about myself? Would I develop new and useful skills? Would it embody a truly experiential, dialogical, improvisational and exploratory ethos? Would I find the workshop leaders mature, stimulating and inspiring? The answer to each of these questions was a resounding 'YES!'”
“I would recommend Open Circle Foundations training because one can learn a creative way of providing a space with care to enter a dialogue that connects participants/trainers in personal ways of finding human commonalities that form conscious ways of challenging beliefs”
“Excellent pioneering work. The Listening Circle Practice has transformed how I work as a leader and facilitator. Rather than standing in front and leading, this Practice has allowed me to sit with people in Circle, and walk with others as we share our stories and discover together the possibilities beyond what we could imagine on our own.”
“The highly skilled team members at Open Circle have a range of listening and facilitation skills that span from formal to informal, inviting to challenging, easy to highly advanced. They are clearly on a mission to humanize the workplace.”
Course Prep and Logistics
Participant Agreement
Quick Preparation Exercise
Video Welcome
Resource: Types of Listening Diagram
Resource: Worldwide Cultural Circle Practices and References
Video: The Five Elements and Four Intentions
Resource: Slides to Accompany Video
Quiz: The Listening Circle
Video: Collective Wisdom and The Principles of Facilitative Leadership
Reflection Exercise
Video: The Form of The Listening Circle
Resource: Guiding Principles for The Listening Circle Practice
Resource: An Invitation to Brave Space
Video: Opening and Closing the Circle
Quiz: The Guiding Principles of a Listening Circle
Video: Prompt Forming
Resource: Slides to Accompany Video
Resource: Notes on Prompt Forming
Exercise: Prompt Forming
7 self paced modules in online training prior to in-person training, complete with videos, exercises, checklists, and resources
9 hours of guided practicum and 1:1 coaching (2 coaches with a group of 12)
$50 off your next training when you enroll within 30 days of completing this course.
Special 45% off discount: from $350 - $195 to make these skills accessible and support community, connection and collaboration in this time of disruption
Regular price
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