Listening without interrupting is a courageous act, with Trisha Lord
In what way is courage involved in listening, and how does it contribute to an improvement in our quality of thinking? What is involved in the experience of courageous thinking?
Trisha Lord shares with Telana how important listening is, and the effects of interrupting on the people involved, and on the quality of the conversation. Together they explore some tips and the conditions needed that create a type of attention and quality of listening that helps us to not only improve our thinking, but our communication as well.
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About Trisha Lord:
“I have been coaching, facilitating, teaching, consulting and designing programmes and interventions for groups, teams and organisations for 36 years.
I began my career in the personal development space, working for an international organisation whose ontological programmes were aimed at creating a learning engagement for individuals and organisations whose interest was in exploring the being of being human.
In 1991 I set up my own coaching practice in London, U.K. and specialised in working with small businesses at the point of growth to become medium-sized businesses. The coaching practice’s focus was on helping these small-to-medium-enterprises face the dilemmas of expanding trust when delegation and communication channels are no longer able to be shared by only the small, intimate “founding” team.
From 1992 – 1997 I worked as an external consultant at British Airways on the design and delivery of The Breakthrough Programme which was delivered to 13,000 cabin crew, as well as customer facing ground staff and managers. This intervention also resulted in my coaching at Board of Director level at the airline.
In 1999 I left England, moving to live in South Africa with my husband, Mike, and my two children, Zachary who was then 21 months old, and Malaika (AMAB, a transgender woman) who was 6 weeks old.
I stayed at home with the children for the first four years in South Africa and then joined the Faculty at the South African College of Applied Psychology, helping to develop their new coaching curriculum and working with external clients on behalf of the College’s CEO, Marc Feitelberg. I remained a member of SACAP’s Faculty until 2015.
In 2004 I was introduced to the work of Nancy Kline, and in 2005 I was one of the eight people who trained with Nancy Kline to deliver Thinking Environment programmes in South Africa. I have been a member of the Global Thinking Environment Faculty since 2006.
I believe passionately in the Thinking Environment as an approach to assisting individuals and teams to develop, deepen and grow their authentic signature presence in their work and lives.”
Contact and Info:
Website: BraveHeartLife.co.za
Email: trisha@braveheartlife.co.za
Cell: +27 84 653 0287