The Transition Town movement is an example of bottom-up empowerment, local community organization for global climate change. Political action and emotional growth and support are combined with conflict resolution skill training, so that Head, Heart, and Hands are all enlisted in common cause. Listening/Focusing Communities are one model of peer support that could be incorporated into Transition Towns.
Called it Reflective Listening, Active Listening, Empathic Listening, Deep Listening, or Focused Listening, Carl Rogers discovered the most powerful communication tool you can have: just saying back the words of the other, with emphasis upon the feeling tone. Here is a free mini-e-course showing how to use Listening to avoid or resolve conflict, have more productive meetings, be with someone who breaks down crying, etc.
FOCUSING PARTNERSHIP: WHAT THE LISTENER DOES Below, from the manual, Focusing In Community: How To Start A Listening/Focusing Support Group, Chapter Three, is a simple introduction to the Focused Listening skills used…
What The Focuser Does: Focusing While Being Listened To Focusing Partnerships/Groups/Teams can work as a self-help, peer-based model precisely because the Focuser is "in charge" of their own Focusing Turn.…
Starting Your Own Listening/Focusing Partnership or Group In these weekly Felt Sensing newsletters of this four-week cycle, I will give instruction (including free Chapter downloads from the manual Focusing In…
Starting Your Own Listening/Focusing Partnership or Group In these weekly Felt Sensing newsletters of this four-week cycle, I will give instruction (including free Chapter downloads from the manual Focusing In…