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A Focusing/TAE approach

  

 

Listening and Communicating for Everyday Life

with Nada Lou

 

  

 

Focusing and TAE skills will be engaged in learning this method.

There are ways of doing more than listening, but they aren't "more" if you do them without first listening!
This workshop will help you become familiar with many different ways in which Focusing Listening and Thinking at the Edge (TAE) can become part of your everyday life, work and any conversational exchange with people you encounter.

You will learn ways to Listen for different purposes and times. Once you learn them and they become part of your way of being with others, you will find yourself using them in situations that are appropriate to each.

You will become aware that you understand people in a more profound way. Communicating your own thoughts will be easier and better received.

Focusing and TAE skills will be engaged in learning this method. There are ways of doing more than listening, but they aren't "more" if you do them without first listening!

Words, with which we communicate in our daily living, carry with them concepts, terminology and definitions that generalize meaning to be used for the standard population. Practically all the words we use in our daily communications have already some "public" meaning.

Meaning that comes from your felt sense is blocked by the public words from expressing its vigour. Since our meaning is in the process of formation, language that will be able to communicate this needs to be gradually shaped.

   The key concepts of this process are listening, responding, and referring to people's feelings and thoughts just as they experience them.

Specific topics include "How to":

  • Find the right words to express what you mean
  • Formulate verbal communication that comes from your felt sense knowing
  • Help another person Focus while talking
  • Use Absolute Listening
  • Show that you understand exactly
  • Ask for repetition or clarification
  • Know when you are doing it right
  • Know when you did it wrong, and what to do about that
  • Tell when it isn't working
  • Tell when a person has a felt sense
  • Help a felt sense form
  • Know when to help people let a felt sense form

Skills learned from this workshop will benefit areas of life such as:

  • work,
  • business,
  • creative endeavors,
  • relationships,
  • family life,
  • marriage,
  • children's education,
  • recovery programs,
  • and many forms of care giving.

 

 

  

Recommended Tapes:

The Power of Listening

Recommended Readings:

Grassroots Introduction to TAE Manual

Training Information:

As Coordinator, I offer Focusing and TAE Training to individuals and groups at all levels:

  • Trainer Certification,
  • Coordinator Certification,
  • Distance Training via telephone, e-mail, and correspondence.
  • I am available to give workshops and presentations to the different groups around the world by invitation.

Contact:

nadalou@nadalou.com

Montreal, Canada 1 450 692 9339

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