Our Grounding Virtues

The Listening Space Project started with a seed of an idea, asking the question: What if we do doctoring a bit differently? What if we work together with our patients and our local community to create a healthy outdoor space? A place where we can listen to and learn from each other, a place to gather, to celebrate and a place to rest.  It was a response to the cut and thrust of modern life  which has a tendency to reduce anything which can be separated, measured or assigned a numerical or financial value stripping life of its dynamism and spirit. There was a sense we wanted to put ourselves together again as individuals and as a community. 

…and so we planted the seed in the soil of our community, and that’s how our garden grew and with it grew our relationships and further opportunities. 

We liked and followed the principles of the Transition Network whose strapline reminds us “if we wait for governments, it’ll be too late, if we act as individuals, it’ll be too little, but if we act as communities, it might be just enough, just in time”.  

We share the vision and aspirations of the Patient Revolution: one where careful and kind care is there for all

We also aspire to follow the grounding virtues of the On Being Civil Conversations Project recognising that engaging others in a deeper way begins with inner work, grounding virtues before ground rules. We encourage all who work with us to stand on the same ground. What we practice, we become….

words that matter- hospitality- humility -patience -generous listening -adventurous civility- forgiveness

And so we started our journey towards an imagined village hall in the centre of our practice community using our heads, hearts and hands. 

All practices and communities are different so we can’t tell you how exactly to organise yours but this is an outline of our recipe.