Reverence is the capacity to relate to, learn from, and accept persons traditionally labelled as “different” or “other.” Reverence is grounded in the belief that there are no “disposable” people, because there is no “other.” A person practices Reverence because it generates our mutual human growth and development.
We live in a world of multi-faceted humans. For organizations to be change leaders in their communities, we must move embrace reverence to ensure we are providing individualize care and ensure the retention of our team.
At Share Collaborative, our Listening with Humility + Reverence training increases service providers’ ability to serve a multi-faceted client population.
By embracing the framework, skills, and concepts in Share’s Listening with Humility + Reverence training, we support providers, individually and as a united team, to view individualized care as a journey rather than a destination.
Listening with Humility + Reverence training:
- Surfaces deep respect for another’s multi-faceted heritage, experiences, and behavioral influences.
- Invites an understanding that creating engagement (the #1 indicator of a positive outcome in service relationships and retention of teams) evolves in partnership with served persons’ in moment-to-moment interactions.
- Invites self-introspection to better understand our own individuality and how it can influence our values, perceptions, and behavior.
- Provides a guiding structure that surfaces in individuals and teams the necessary awareness, desire, and ability to relate to any person’s essence.
LISTENING WITH HUMLITY + REVERENCE TRAINING OVERVIEW
Listening with Humility + Reverence training provides a safe, nurturing space to explore principles and concepts that may be new for some participants. We’ll discuss topics openly and provide opportunities for self-exploration on essential and relevant concepts.
Self-Reflection & Lifelong Learning
Practitioners examine their own individuality and the places where their values, life experience and on is at odds or supportive with served persons, colleagues, service partners, and others.
Served Person as Expert
We’ll explore and address the implicit power imbalance in any service relationship. This exploration supports individual practitioners and teams to respect and understand the dynamics at work in human services.
Community as Expert
Learners will discover how to learn from the population-served about their needs, wants, and desires rather than assuming or predetermining them.
Institutional Self-Reflection & Investment
Participants explore how to engage in ongoing institutional self-assessments to determine how documents and processes (such as intakes) are or are not approachable to served persons and how they might be redressed.
As we follow these four principles, individuals, teams, and organizations will expand their journey towards emboding reverence in their individual service, team and community interactions. Share’s Listening with Reverence + Humility training began in 2015 and continues to evolve to meet our evolving world and community’s needs.
Visit our training team page to meet each of our Listening with Humility + Reverence Trainers.