The Listening Space: A New Path to Personal Discovery (second edition)

by Tamsin C Hartley

Overview

The Listening Space is a unique and structured way of listening that has had a transformative effect on the lives of many.

In the three years since the publication of the first edition of this book, the process has been refined and simplified in the light of feedback from people who have been using The Listening Space in their everyday lives. The process is now easier to learn and continues to produce surprising and profoundly creative insights for the people being listened to.

Whilst much of the revised edition of this book remains the same, Chapter 4 has been significantly updated to reflect these changes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780995785427
Publisher:	Listening Space
Publication date:	08/06/2020
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x 0.65(d)

About the Author

Tamsin Hartley, MSc, worked as a physiotherapist for ten years before taking time out to bring up her young family. She then retrained to work as a coach, trainer and workshop facilitator. She has always been drawn to using metaphor in her work, and when a friend introduced her to Clean Language it wasn't long before she was hooked. Here was a respectful way of working with people's metaphors that is both resourceful and richly creative. Tamsin has combined the principles of mindful awareness with exploration using Clean Language to create the Listening Space - a new approach to listening to yourself and others that can help transform your life. She published a second book in 2019, Captured Moments: Poems Inspired by A Listening Space, a collection that resulted from various Listening Space sessions. The book includes an activity that invites the reader to explore their own experience through metaphor with the use of Clean questions. She lives with her family in East Yorkshire.

Editorial Reviews

'I wholeheartedly support the focus of this book and its deep relevance to our lives and work, and even to the future of our world.'

Nancy Kline, best-selling author of Time to Think

'Tamsin Hartley shows you how to create a gently powerful listening space by combining mindfulness and metaphor through the medium of Clean Language. Extremely readable, with some great examples of how real people deal with gritty real-life problems by offering themselves and those they live and work with the simple, spacious, lucid clarity of The Listening Space.'

Nick Pole, author of Words That Touch

'A beautifully crafted book which takes you on a journey of personal discovery through the Lighthouse of Mindful Exploration. Inside we learn how to listen to both ourselves and to others without judgement. I felt supported all the way through the book, as though the author was right next to me, guiding me through a series of short and enjoyable activities that helped me to develop the skills needed to create a Listening Space for others.

This practical handbook is full of interesting anecdotes, examples, activities and tips. It is very easy to read and is likely to significantly improve your listening skills and your ability to provide a truly resourceful space for someone to hear and explore their own thinking.'

Sue Sharp, Coach and Trainer, Your Emerging Self

'The Listening Space: A New Path to Personal Discovery is the first work to combine the art of mindfulness with metaphor and David Grove's Clean Language questions. It shows how paying mindful attention to yourself and others results in more awareness, more acceptance, less judgment and more choice.

Although written for beginners starting on their path of personal discovery, The Listening Space has plenty for more experienced seekers, and for the professionals who work with them. The unique way this book combines mindfulness and Clean Language will give you new and exciting ways to know yourself and to experience the world around you.'

Penny Tompkins and James Lawley, authors of Metaphors in Mind

'An eminently practical and readable book with a comprehensive range of development tools and exercises, leading to an innovative and streamlined process that will amplify your listening awareness in a non-judgemental way, allowing people to discover their own unique personal solutions. This is a 'must-have' book for your bookshelf. One that you will come back to and discover new and refreshing insights.'

John Gallagher, Hypnotherapist/NLP Practitioner, Life's Purpose

'This empowering book demonstrates clearly and simply how awareness of your own personal metaphors can influence your behaviour and change your life for the better.'

A.C., primary school teacher

'Desperate to improve communication with my three teenagers, I found The Listening Space really helped me with that and much more!

This cleverly written book provides a clear explanation of the concept of Clean Language by taking the reader on a path into and up through the different floors of a Lighthouse of Mindful Exploration. At each stage the book reinforces the theory by suggesting exercises and techniques which are easy to follow and helped me to start using Clean questions straight away!

What started for me as a tool to improve communication has become a powerful resource which has encouraged me to step back and explore my own thoughts and emotions too. A real gem and one to keep by your bedside!'

J.M., parent

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