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The Listening Labs Holistic Self Leadership Coaching and Person-Centred Listening and Communication workshops to explore and unlock potential & create meaningful connection.

16/07/2026

It’s such a master of nuance
A slight tightening of the chest
A full heart
A heavy heart
A constricted throat
Feet that tap
Arms that throw themselves open with abandon, before a word is spoken in the presence of someone you love.

All our sinews, ever chatting away to us with such precision.

What did you just hear yours say?

(Hanoi, Vietnam)

07/07/2026

I combined two things I love, coaching and being outdoors. Here’s what I learned.

🌱 You can’t take notes, so you have to trust your listening 100%.

🌱 You can’t see facial expressions when you’re walking side by side. So gentle curiosity around the walking body becomes important - when do they stop and look at you, look down, sighs, prosody.

🌱 You have to respect those little pauses where someone steps out of the process to take in the environment - as we did with the fluffed up little bodies of cygnets on the lake, or the fairytale like bed of water lilies.

🌱 Interestingly, silence felt more gently held by being in nature and walking side by side.

🌱 But nature can present its own challenges and might risk a puncture in psychological safety - you can bump into random people who just fancy a wee chat, you can get lost, not pitch the walk properly for your client’s capacity, not be dressed properly, the weather can fling you a curve ball, or have a client who doesn’t like mud or the dogs you might meet along the way.

And one that can creep in sneakily in Scotland - the midgy! 🦟

You need to think ahead and know your client.

🌱 I loved coaching outdoors. But it’s not about me, and it won’t be for everyone.

🌱 It’s not a magic tool and the coaching is still the coaching - it still needs a clear contract, clear intention, and has to follow the ethics of the profession.

Did I enjoy it? Will I do it again?

A big resounding YES. 🌲🌳

If outdoors is where you unknot your thoughts and you love the freedom and fresh air of being outside, you’re always welcome to use my booking link above 👆🏻 to have a free no pressure call.

That matters, because inside or outside, your coach has to feel like a good fit and you can’t guess that.

😊Post below a photo of your outdoor thinking places. I’d love to see them, I love photos and I am curious 👀 👇

06/07/2026

In the utterly joyful ripple, from one persons decision at one point, to just put their voice, their music, their dance, their passion, their sense of fun - themselves - right out there.

Doing what we love and what we’re uniquely good at,really I believe serves the greater good🌱

I felt bathed in that this weekend 😊

Thank you

20/06/2026

I only read about the term collective effervescence this week - coined by sociologist Émile Durkheim in 1912 and then we found ourself plunged in it last night.

It’s explained as the electric feeling of energy and connection that occurs when a group of people gathers together for a shared purpose, causing individuals to feel swept away and connected to something much larger than themselves

But you know what I love even more - how just the words let out from someone’s heart and the bravery to share can then move in a moment so many.

That’s awe.

Thank you you really made my week and it will linger on sweetly

01/06/2026

I honestly think most of us don’t go into conversation with the intent to override someone or hijack someone’s flow.

Yet it happens

I worked with a client recently who described the pattern perfectly.

They knew that sense of ‘cringe creep’ in their body - the sinking discomfort when you replay the moment patience walks out the back door. Having cut in, interrupting someone mid flow to fix, to save, to get heard, to divert discomfort.

The residue staying with them well after the conversation has ended.

Until they started to work on catching themselves mid-impulse.

They began to notice the subtle shift in the speaker. That flicker of recognition surfacing on their face and body as they felt them let go of their thread. And then the relief in what I call the moment of grace we all get, when we choose to come back to them.

It’s right there in that moment where the energy softens. That slight brace of being dropped stands down. It makes sense, we only talk to be heard, and they don’t want to lose the connection either.

If there were subtitles for that silent conversation they would read;

“Oh, they’re not pivoting on their heels away from me, I can trust they’ll hear me out.”

It’s like a fray on a jumper you love. The pulling makes it worse, the catching is what saves it.

They told me the catch doesn’t work every time

But for my client the texture of their conversations is changing. The heavy cost of having to re-nurture broken connections, less awkward overcompensation and less second guessing. And so much time gained back from no longer having to watch that damn internal replay when they’d rather be doing something else.

They can now hear the conversation underneath the conversation.

I am running an intimate, interactive 90 min workshop where we’ll dip into how to work with that gap in the ‘Mind the Gap - Patience Reset’ and learn how to spot the fray before we pull it and nimble our hands for the catch.

Link to join in bio ☝️& share if it feels right to.

🗓️ Wed 3rd June 2026 ⏰6pm BST-UK | 1pm ET- USA
10 places only so everyone has space to be heard
Live only - no recording
Online via zoom

23/05/2026

Both valuable. Both move.

But the residue of the latter deeply felt, lasts longer between two people.

Workshop on staying present with patience - Wednesday 4th June 2026 - 18h UK time - DM patience for link ( I’ll send it over once live)

Have a beautiful day - CA

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