September 13, 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
$5 Registration
Companionship Training supports volunteers in developing skills to listen consciously with openness, along with an awareness of limits and boundaries while sharing the journey side-by-side as a neighbor. Companionship can look at times like accompanying, at other times simply listening. The original training, developed by the Rev. Craig Rennebohm, offers an introduction and discussion of the five practices of Companionship: Hospitality, Neighboring, Sharing the journey side-by-side, Listening, and Accompaniment. Our goal is that once you have completed this training, you will have the tools to listen consciously, with openness and awareness to the stories and struggles of others; to enable at least a momentary reprieve; and to encourage a strengthening for the journey ahead. Our facilitator, Lizbeth Adams is a certified Companionship Trainer who has conducted workshops throughout Seattle.
