Listening Project a non-profit organization providing guidance and training for: Community Listening Projects (CLP) and Facilitated Group Listening (FGL). Both programs have a thirty year history of helping community organizations achieve transformative change around issues of justice, conflict, health, community development, education, environment, and other concerns. Community Listening Projects:
Identify key community problems, issues and priorities
Include often unheard or unheeded voices
Build empathy, understanding and common ground among people with different or conflicting views.
Generate creative solutions
Develop new community leaders Forms uncommon coalitions and alliances
Create long-term capacity for collaborative community action that incorporates the concerns and needs of the community
Community Listening Projects have been done by the groups listed below.(More on current projects here: Updates or on past projects here: Media)
American Friends Service Committee
Commission Justice & Development
Concerned Citizens Against Toxic Waste, KY
European Center For Conflict Resolution
Gulf Coast Hurricane Katrina Project
Health for Hispanics, NC
North End Citizens, Winchester, VA
Louisiana Racial Issues Project
Catholic Loyola University/Govans Neighborhood
Partners in Sustainable Agriculture, NC
Religion and Diversity Project, NC
Strong Neighborhoods Initiative, CA
S.E. Jurisdiction United Methodist Church
Taylor County Leadership Council, FL
Economic Justice Project, IL