Radical Listening for Coaches
Live Course
Listening is one of the most important tool in Coaching (and life!). Here are tools to improve this skill.
Whether it is natural or learned, coaches tend to be good listeners. This course builds on your experience as a professional listener by providing new frameworks and skills to enhance your listening. And, ultimately, your coaching effectiveness.
This four-session course introduces learners to the Radical Listening framework, which emphasizes the shifting reasons for listening, the most common obstacles to listening, and the six core skills of listening.
Whether you are brand-new to coaching or have more than a decade’s experience, this course will connect you with the listening process in fresh ways.
Learning Objectives:
- Understand your natural listening habits
- Identify and use skills beyond traditional “active listening”
- Increase understanding of the motives for and benefits of listening
- Understand research on the psychology of listening
- Appreciate cultural differences in listening
What you will learn
This course is intended to deepen each participant’s sophistication in applying positive psychological theory and research to their own coaching practice. Although we focus on positive psychology as a lens for coaching, we also attend to core coaching skills, such as ethical decision-making and coaching presence.
This course is not intended to teach basic coaching skills or to provide an introduction to positive psychology. Instead, it is an advanced practicum for those who are experienced coaches, have completed coach training, and who already have a cursory knowledge of positive psychological science.
This course is limited to 6 participants and qualified applicants will be accepted on a first come, first served basis.
The Radical Listening Framework:
Listening Intentions and Obstacles
Listening Choices:
Attention and Noticing
Behavioral Listening:
Acknowledging and Interjecting
Quiet Listening:
Coaching Ways of Being
Your Instructors
Course Details
6 Resource Development Credits
Course Fee: $299
This 4-session distance learning course meets for 90 minutes each session. We will limit enrollment to ensure that we are able to have in-depth discussions and time to apply knowledge in breakout sessions. In addition, we will use demonstrations and supplemental readings to reinforce your learning. We use our book, Radical Listening, as the required textbook for the course.
Course Schedule
This course meets on:
June 9th and 11th
and June 23rd and 25th
Class Time Options
This course meets Mondays and Wednesdays from
9 am to 10:30 am Pacific Time
Frequently Asked Questions
Although listening is a topic that is appropriate to everyone, we will focus heavily on coaching. This means that we will use coaching examples and discuss technical elements of coaching. Therefore, we request that participants in this course work as or are being trained as coaches.
The course will include optional reading for those who want to take a deeper dive into each topic. We use our book, Radical Listening, as the required textbook for the course.
This course is offered in a completely digital format. We recommend a reliable Internet connection.
Yes, this course confers six Resource Development credits.
100% refund available within 24 hours of registration.
90% refund available up to 3 weeks before the start of the course.
50% refund available within 3 weeks before the course begins.
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What our alumni say
A friend in the coaching industry pointed me to Positive Acorn and Robert Biswas-Diener. Her words were “Robert helped me realize just how legitimate and relevant the coaching industry really is”. After completing the ACC credential courses and mentoring program with Positive Acorn, I couldn’t agree more. I feel very lucky to have ended
up with Robert not just because of his undeniable qualifications and deeply considered teaching techniques, but also because of the very high level of students he attracts.
Jeffrey Mince
As a survivor of dozens of uninspiring professional development classes, I found Robert’s teaching style distinctive, refreshing and effective. Robert grounds every class in scientific evidence, then adds insights harvested from years of research, teaching, and coaching experience. He does not limit his focus to any one model or coaching approach and I valued the exposure to many. Key to my learning was Robert’s teaching style. He expected students to bring their A-game. He invited us to be prepared, to challenge assumptions, and to never lose sight of the ethics, competencies and humble curiosity that are foundational to professional coaching.
Carolyn Cumpsty-Fowler
This has been one of the best learning experiences I’ve ever had (and I’ve had some great ones!). The high calibre of my fellow classmates was very inspiring, and I have learnt so much from coaching with them – in class and beyond. I would wholeheartedly recommend Positive Acorn to any students looking for robust coach training.