4th Annual Listening Hour Festival

Synchronizing Souls:
From Morning Brews to Midnight Conversation

Friday, May 17 - Sunday, May 19, 2024

Looking back now, we can safely say that we've come a long way! And the journey that has brought us here, has been full of adventure and discovery. Throughout these 4 years different people around the globe, strangers to each other, have created spaces that welcome stories. And even more, people have boldly trodden into these spaces to fill them with their souls.

Throughout these 4 years, the echoes of these souls that meet in time zones all around the world have always been with us. So this year we invite again all guides, listeners, storytellers, people who have crossed LH paths, and those who are curious to synchronize our souls in the 4th annual LH festival.

The theme of our festival is Synchronizing Souls: From Morning Brews to Midnight Conversations. We wish to create a space for all the different storyholders and storytellers to celebrate, meet, connect, share, and exchange adventures and discoveries.

The structure of this year’s festival will be trying to synchronize souls, stories, and needs for connection and growth. We are planning a program full of Listening Hour Sessions which will be offered by you, as well as workshops and panels. This year for the first time we will offer events that are targeted especially for the community and events that will be open to people outside the community who wish to attend the festival.

This is a moment the LH comes together from all over the World. Beginning on May 17th with an Opening Ceremony, we will close on May 19th with a Closing Ceremony. We welcome you to come as much as you are able. As before, the Listening Hour Festival is free of charge.

Beginning and going throughout the festival (outside the times for Opening and closing ceremonies, workshops, and panels) we will have Listening Hours ending at 9 pm EST on Sunday evening.

Festival Program

Friday, May 19

12:00 – 01:30 PM EST

Opening Ceremony

1:30 – 3:00 PM EST

Using the Listening Hour with Young people (panel)

Seniz Turan, panel Moderator

Please join us as we discuss the different ways Listening Hour is used with young people. Panellists: Polina Novikova (Ukraine), Büsra Köse (Turkiye), Dilan Demir (Turkiye), Mandisi Sindo (SA)

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89701850714?pwd=bzhFZVBjaWZWTjQrSWVWdnVPL3BDUT09

Saturday, May 20

09:00 – 10:30 AM EST

Envisioning the Future of the Listening Hour (workshop)

Bea Somoghi, Hungary

In this 90-minute workshop, Come envision your next steps together.

Come closer

-a future telling workshop -

"In this Oasis,

where one Community or more stops.

Looking around, back and forward.

Take your place and time"

As we journey to this oasis together, how does it feel? What would you like to see as a next step for you as a guide? For the Listening Hour?

11:30 – 01:00 PM EST

Using the Listening Hour for trauma (panel)

Jennie Kristel, panel Moderator

Join us as we discuss ways in which the Listening Hour is used for and in moments of trauma as well as ways LH is and can be trauma informed.

Panellists: Polina Novikova, Sarah Urech, Vera Lachinova, Abdullah Jatal.

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82832822338?pwd=Mjk5TndncVJ0ZUErbEhWQUR4dWE1UT09

02:30 – 04:00 PM EST

Using the Listening Hour for Professional Identity (workshop)

Hiromi Yoshikawa, Japan

Hiromi will guide participants to explore how the Listening Hour contributes to the development of professional identity for students and practitioners through shared experiences. Helpful for health care professionals and others.

11:30 – 1:00 PM EST

Using Symbols and Metaphors in the Listening Hour (workshop)

Xenia Malathraki, Greece

Symbols and metaphors are a place we can lean into for support , strength and containment. They are a place where we can all project and find ourselves. In this workshop we will explore their uses in the part of the reprise of a listening hour session.

Sunday, May 21