Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Americas
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM PDT/Los Angeles
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM CDT/Chicago
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM EDT/New York
EMEA
16:00 – 18:00 BST/London
17:00 – 19:00 CEST/Paris
18:00 – 20:00 EEST/Helsinki
18:00 – 20:00 EAT/Nairobi
HOST: Sunny BenBelkacem
How do we know we have given someone our complete attention when they speak? What are the specific tools of active and deep listening?
Listening is the first step to understanding the world around us. It is foundational in co-creation and collaboration. Let’s name specifically the tools of active listening. Join us in this 2-hour workshop to relearn listening in a way that brings respect, deepens understanding, and drives action and problem-solving. By learning to prepare ourselves by resetting a few settings and filters, we can show up with care and intention to better build relationships, collaboration, and action.
Background
Listening is the foundation for true understanding between people. By genuinely hearing each other, we build the empathy, trust, and information needed to drive meaningful action.
This session is grounded in the belief that we must relearn the art of deep, compassionate listening to reconnect. We know we must move past simply waiting for our turn to speak. This session is a reminder that when listening is leveraged skillfully, it unlocks new possibilities.
Join us as we explore and experience what emerges when we commit to lifting each other up through the power of being fully, and compassionately present. Let’s discover how listening can again become our secret superpower as facilitators, coaches, and change-makers driving positive impact.
Our Workshop
What are the ways we listen? What are the tools of deep, active listening? This workshop introduces and applies a method for being a more present listener. We will learn about generous listening and how to shift to generative listening, moving into collaboration and problem-solving. Working in small groups, we will practice listening together.
Goals
- Introduce a process to prepare for listening
- Learn how to apply listening filters for better collaboration, problem-solving, coaching, and action
- Practice listening in small groups
Key Takeaways
- A framework for preparing for active listening
- A methodology for how to listen for action, problem-solving, and coaching
- A better understanding of active listening and how to improve interpersonal and professional communications
Who Should Attend
We designed this workshop for facilitators, designers, storytellers, communicators, coaches, mentors, and anyone passionate about listening and clarity.
If you want to lean into greater empathy, curiosity, and human connections – join us. Relearn listening as your secret superpower for taking impact to the next level.
Let’s explore this creative lever to elevate how we truly hear each other and lift each other up.
Registration
Date: Wednesday, October 9, 2024
Time: 11:00 AM EDT (17:00 CEST)
Location: Virtual (Link will be provided upon registration)
Your Host: Sunny BenBelkacem
Sunny BenBelkacem is a Visual Facilitator, Teacher, Writer, and Graphic Artist. After graduating from the University of Dubuque, she started her career at Ernst & Young’s Accelerated Solutions Environment in 1998 and has worked as a visual artist ever since.
Sunny is passionate about using visuals to help people learn, understand, clarify, and create solutions collaboratively. She has had the pleasure of working with Fortune 500s, non-profits, and educational institutions of all kinds. She served as a Board Member and President of IFVP – International Forum of Visual Practitioners for seven years, a professional organization representing Graphic Recorders and Facilitators. She is a long-time member practitioner of MGTaylor methodology and a member of The Value Web. In addition to managing a boutique business of visual solutions and workshop services, she teaches visual thinking and facilitation at Northwestern Kellogg School of Management and the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. She lives in Chicago, IL with the mad data scientist known as Uncle Weezy.
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