“When we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work and when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.”
—Wendell Berry
Services
A Listening Life provides a variety of coaching, consulting, speaking, and spiritually-oriented services tailored to your personal or organizational needs.
Coaching
Journeying with the supportive presence of someone who listens deeply, reflects and asks impactful questions is what it takes to turn the corner and find clarity. Personal Development Coaching helps you gain greater insight and renewed direction by focusing on awareness and capability building. Enneagram Coaching helps you better understand your personality and the unique challenges and gifts that go along with your personality type.
Speaking
Teaching | Preaching | Workshops
Rebecca is passionate about inviting others to awaken to the truth that living a listening life connected to Spirit is available to all. She is willing to work with you to shape the message needed and desired in your setting, especially topics involving spiritual practices, and the paradoxes, transitions and thresholds on life's journey.
Spiritual Direction
Spiritual Direction is the art of listening carried out in the context of a trusting relationship. Also referred to as spiritual guidance, holy listening, spiritual friendship, sacred journeying, and similar terms to reflect on the reverential nature of this kind of companionship.
Retreats: Permission to Pause
Permission to Pause is an experiential mini-retreat that offers a unique combination of creativity, movement and nature to aid our participants in deeper listening to self and the Divine. Woven through our custom designed gatherings we make simple spiritual connections that relate to the everyday issues we face. We believe Spirit is present in every aspect of life, even and especially in the most mundane issues we face. Those “muddy” everyday details of our lives are exactly where we usually get mired and lost.
Our approach is one in which we create a hospitable environment to gently invite our participants to slow down and consider the wonder of how the Divine is present in the circumstances of life. Participants will leave with a sense of refreshment and encouragement to continue attending to the holy moments bursting forth in daily life.
Ideally, Permission to Pause and all our Retreat offerings help participants experience a greater level of clarity to meet those “muddy” life moments with increased honesty, authenticity and openness.
Other Retreats
We also offer a variety of other Customizable Retreats that can be developed to fit your timeframe, topic/theme, and setting.
Consulting
Listening, discernment, and innovation for your team, congregation or business
Facing a challenge? Feeling Stuck? Hoping for new ideas and fresh perspective in the context of your job or spiritual community?
Rebecca believes the best consulting arises out of deep listening. She holds that Spirit is present and active in the space between us and if we dare to show up, free from agendas, to mutually share and listen deeply to one another, inevitably something new sparks in that space.
Rebecca's consulting style is one of collaboration and reverence for the other as she and the client seek to notice and name what arises in the creative space between.
Listening Groups
One hour of quiet to practice presence to self, others and the Divine.
Listening groups offer a one hour guided quiet experience in which participants practice deep listening. We begin to notice what is going on inside ourselves. We become present to self. We listen with our whole being and without words to others. We become present to one another. We begin to tune into the the movements of God in our lives and in the present moment. We become present to God's presence with us.
Rebecca may use any combination of art, poetry, music and various other elements to guide the listening session.
