Over the past 6 months I have been doing some research for a book that I am writing. It's all about bringing a different kind of listening to family life. As...

Managing the sense of 'busy-ness' that life can bring: using Clean questions to bring a moment of calm reflection and connect with w

I’ve recently started running Listening Space courses for parents in which participants are: ​ introduced to models of human behaviour to help them understan...

Over the past few years I have noticed that if I sit still for long enough to ‘capture the moment’, a poem appears.  And if I find myself gr

Clean questions can transform the way that you listen. One participant from a recent Listening Space course, Mark, describes how he found himself switching t...

Taking time to reflect on what's important to you can be a great antidote to all the busy-ness of our everyday lives. This blog invites

Teenage life comes with its ups and downs, bringing with it emotions that can feel confusing and overwhelming at times. As a parent of a teenager it is easy ...

A music teacher friend recently shared her experience of working with a pupil who has Asperger's syndrome and struggles to manage his em

Asking a child Clean questions can help them understand their emotions better so that they can deal more calmly with the ups and downs of th

I’d like to introduce you to Sophie – a mother of two young children; Ella, who is eight years old, and Sam, who is five. Having found herself getting run dow...

I recently interviewed Annie Rappeport, a 32 year-old American PhD student, about her experience of chronic illness as part of a listening project for the In...

What happens if we resist the temptation to rescue? If we are willing to sit alongside a person in their discomfort rather than go into ‘fi

Clean questions help to keep a conversation going without me having to think of clever things to say.

When someone is feeling tension all around the top of their body, how could just two simple questions be as helpful as a massage? Clean questions are a simpl...

The Listening Space can be used for joint exploration, facilitating two people together to explore an issue that is important to them. Wheth

Meet Jo – a police sergeant who manages a community policing team. Over the past couple of years the demands of Jo’s work have changed significantly. She fin...

There is an African Zulu greeting that people give when they meet one another: Sawubona. More than our traditional ‘hello’, this word literally means ‘I see ...

Change the way we listen to ourselves and we make better decisions, imagine our future more clearly, and take more pleasure in what we do. Change the way we ...

Naoki Higashida's powerful description of living with autism is a salutary reminder that we should never assume to know what another per

If you're a parent you may well identify that raising children can be one of the most rewarding experiences that life has to offer. But