Professional Listening: Online Worldwide

Professional Listening

Many of us like to talk. But sometimes we’d love to have someone who could just listen – listen to us dispassionately, neutrally, without interruption. It’s a common observation that there are few exceptional listeners available to us. Consider your own life: who is an attentive and non-judgemental listener for you? For whom are you a good listener? There are times when we, for whatever reason, can feel alone, isolated, or misunderstood in our circumstance. Though we may be fortunate to have best mates, loving partners and parents who want to help, because of their investment in the outcome, they may be unintentionally dismissive of our thoughts or offer us judgemental opinions, advice, or try to fix things. 

In his book, Still The Mind, philosopher Alan Watts (1915-1973) makes a most insightful comment regarding hearing and listening. He says, ‘The first thing we have to understand is what I call deep listening. And very few people ever really listen. Because instead of receiving the sound, they make comments on it all the time. They’re thinking about it, and so the sound is never fully heard’.

Adding to the conundrum is that none of us particulalry likes to burden our family, friends and colleagues. The truth is, we may personally be able to live with a level of complexity and uncertainty with which they feel uncomfortable; we may perceive the world in ways they cannot understand; we may embrace challenges they consider insurmountable; or we may long to embark on risky pursuits about which they feel anxious and caution us against.  Life is rarely straightforward.

As an interal part of our suite of services, Catalyst Coaching Place offers Professional Listening. 
This is a regenerative, one-on-one, confidential listening space in which you can speak without interruption, take time to contemplate, and even be creative. Throughout your session, your Professional Listener holds an attentive, respectful and quiet space, allowing you freedom to brainstorm ideas; to talk-out personal pressure points or work stressors; to reflect, or even to sit in silence, and all the while, be heard.  Catalyst Coaching Place recognises and supports a core need many of us long for in our busy lives - to be heard, to experience a calm listening presence within a strong, safe space. By speaking what is on our mind and heart and by being authentically heard, the wellness of our 'well'being is nourished.

Catalyst Coaching Place offers a unique and popular 50-minute online listening space, one which is calming and generative. It is offered as a one-on-one service, for individuals and for teams/organisations. The Catalyst listening space is like an oasis amid the busyness: a space which holds stillness, free of interruptions and judgement. Importantly, it is compassionate, confidential, mutually respectful and ethics bound. It’s a place to ‘be’; to explore your thoughts and feelings, debrief work or life issues, discover your own epiphanies, and best of all, to breathe. 
As a gifted professional listener, Christine’s capacity to remain deeply present with people and to compassionately listen, brings a sense of loving calm to the space that helps soothe the soul and supports the spirit. In many ways, the professional listening space needs to be experienced to be appreciated.

When a person realizes he has been deeply heard, his eyes moisten. I think in some real sense he is weeping for joy. It is as though he were saying, 'Thank God, somebody heard me. Someone knows what it's like to be me'. ― Carl R. Rogers

Professional Listening Benefits

Professional listening is not clinical care nor therapy; but it is entirely therapeutic. Feedback from clients is that being truly heard is surprisingly and deeply beneficial: enhancing the wellness of one’s being.  In terms of self-care, caring for one’s innermost being by having a 'listening ear' is perhaps the simplest and one of the most powerfully rejuvenating experiences to give oneself. Without doubt, in practice, being heard is an integral part of bringing kindness to ourselves and nurturing our soul. 
Invariably, insights begin to flow as our brains relax and find peace: In these moments when we are truly heard, we somehow hear our inner voice more clearly – even in ways which may be surprising, empowering, calming, or powerfully revelatory. 
In truth, the benefits of a listening space are numerous and unique for each person and each circumstance.  
If you’re curious to experience for yourself the value of the listening space, I invite you to book a complementary introductory time for us to briefly chat. Having clear intentions for both parties makes subsequent listening sessions far more purposeful, effective, and meaningful.

Professional Listening

What we offer: a one-on-one online professional listening space

Professional Listening Benefits

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