APPRECIATIVE LISTENING

Who it's for

This Workshop is for anyone wanting to (re)discover the willingness and motivation to listen to people by using the pleasure they already have listening to sounds in nature, music, objects, voices… (called Appreciative Listening).

And for anyone wanting to overcome the apprehension to listen and enhance their own listening abilities. 

Format

1/2-day workshop (4 hours)

Lots of interactions with and between participants (reflections and exercises).
Pre-requisite: none
Number of people 3-12
Language: English or French

This workshop is available on-site or as an open-enrollment.

What you learn

In this workshop, we will explore various ways of how Appreciative Listening enhance your listening abilities.

The pleasure and hunger you have for sound as a vital element; the sounds of your childhood, the sound of the physical space that you're in or even the sound of your boss!

You will observe that music and voices have basic components in common and how this can be used to listen to people. Jean Francois Mathieu call this the Composer’s Approach.

  • Learn how to use the Composer’s Approach to prepare yourself to listen in any situation.
  • Discover and understand that some sounds shaped your life in many ways and are still vividly present in your memory, your mind, even your body.
  • Learn how to use Appreciative Listening as a simulator to train yourself to listen to people.
  • Understand the basic set of essential components that can be found in music, nature and the human voice such as melody, rhythm, dynamics, tone and silence… and how to use them when listening to people.
  • Learn how to listen to music as if it were a person and how to listen to your “boss” as the Artist you long waited for! 
  • Go into extreme listening: Listen to your apartment!

Optional follow-up individual session

Optionally, each participant can book a one-hour follow-up individual session on-line to support them as they apply and practice the listening strategies they learned in the workshop.

Outcome

  • How Appreciative Listening enhance your listening abilities.
  • Overcome the apprehension to listen and (re)discover the pleasure of it.
  • Open yourselves to new ways of being moved, entertained, excited…
  • Put yourself in a “melomane” state of mind when somebody is speaking to you.
  • Develop many of the essential competencies needed to be an effective Listener to people.
  • Decode information in the human voice, even when without seeing the person, or when the sound is distorted by the channel of communication.
  • Listen beyond words!

Open enrollment tuition

Regular fee:  360.00 CHF

Includes
4-hour Workshop
Handouts and e-documents
Refreshments and coffee break

Corporate package
Companies who wish to register 4 or more participants can contact us for package registration advantages. Please write to contact@leaderstoday.co

Optional follow-up 
1-hour individual session on-line:  120.00 CHF


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