#personalrelationships

Tamsin Hartley

A father's love divided

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...

Tamsin Hartley

A Listening Space for parents

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

Tamsin Hartley

Getting to the heart of the matter

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

Tamsin Hartley

Bridging an unreachable gap

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...

Tamsin Hartley

Helping children manage their emotions: part 3

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

Tamsin Hartley

Resisting the pull to rescue

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

Tamsin Hartley

Keeping the conversation going

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

Tamsin Hartley

A Listening Space for two people

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