Training Deep Listening and Existential Concerns
- When: Monday, March 16, 9:30 a.m. to Wednesday, March 18, 2026, 5:30 p.m.
- Where: Dominicanenklooster Huissen
- Cost: € 675,- for the training, including meals, drinks, and two nights’ accommodation
This three-day course in Deep Listening an Existential Concerns is for anyone who has completed 4 days of our Deep Listening training.
This training course is a collaboration between the University of Humanistic Studies and Dominicanenklooster Huissen.
Description
Existential concerns arise in the following five human life situations:
- Impermanence and Death – limitations in life
- Meaning and Meaninglessness
- Freedom, Responsibility and Agency
- Isolation
- Emotions, Experience and Embodiment
Identified by the European philosophical tradition, these existential concerns are described as part of the human condition. These concerns can arise at any time in our life, providing an opportunity to deepen our understanding of and connection to life while at the same time often creating experiences of vulnerability and uncertainty. Although this is a natural part of human existence, these situations can impact us deeply. Ongoing experiences of isolation, impermanence, lack of freedom, or meaninglessness, for example, seem difficult to change and can lead to crisis.
Reflecting on these, through a process of deep listening, can help us to find how to live more easily with these concerns, often leading to greater meaning in our life and well-being. As a deep listener, we can use this experience of listening to these concerns within ourselves, to see how we can support others meeting these same challenges in their lives.
This will be a rich field of exploration for us in our Advanced Deep Listening Group, which we will do through a variety of exercises, discussions and meditations.
Trainers
Rosamund Oliver developed the method. She is a psychotherapist and Buddhist and has been working with the method for decades.
Anne Goossensen is the contact person for the organization of the training. She works as a professor of ‘Listening and Quality of Living Together’ at the University of Humanistic Studies in Utrecht and as a lecturer in ‘End-of-Life Care’ at Avans University of Applied Sciences in Breda.