(Part of the University of Rhode Island's 23rd Annual Diversity Week)

Facilitated by Robert Vincent, coordinator, URI Center for Student Leadership Development; Amy Olson, executive director, URI Hillel; Beth Sherman, vicar and chaplain to URI, St. Augustine’s Church and Episcopal Center

This workshop will focus on the spirituality of listening and how people of diverse religious, political, and cultural backgrounds can find commonalities and gain appreciation of each other. In the words of Roman Catholic priest Henri Nouwen: “Listening is a form of spiritual hospitality by which you invite strangers to become friends, to get to know their inner selves more fully, and even to dare to be silent with you.”