Dear {{contact.first_name}},
If the path ahead is truly new, we can’t yet see it. But many of us can sense it.
Here’s the thing: We can’t think our way to transformation.
When we long for a way forward that we don’t yet see—for ourselves and for our world-- it’s tempting to assume we can think our way through chaotic times. But our thinking can only go as far as what our minds already know.
When thinking stops helping, something else is usually trying to speak.
Listen!
When I wrote Transformational Speaking in 2009, the word “transformation” wasn’t the buzzword it has since become. I chose it because of what I witnessed in my classes.
When people spoke from their deepest truth, you could feel it in the room. They crossed a threshold into territory that had once felt off limits. From that new ground within them, they found their true message—and the courage to show up in the world in an entirely new way.
Later, when Fast Company reviewed my book, it described my work as “transforming your relationship to your voice via the deepest stirrings of your soul.”
Now I’m introducing Transformational Listening, another way those stirrings speak to us.
Last October I gathered a small beta group of twelve “important strangers” to come together to play with the possibilities of listening to ourselves, to Life, to each other, and together.
What we discovered was profound. But what stays with me was the delight of it—we were gob smacked by the many ways Life was already speaking to us!
Messages came through the body, through timing, through the land and the horses and across time, through something someone said that landed exactly when it needed to, so we could actually hear it.
And we had so much fun! When we released the need to figure everything out and let our curiosity guide us, a greater intelligence began to speak.
We didn’t just find insight. We were found by it.
It turns out Life has been trying to get our attention for quite some time.
We simply weren’t taught how to listen.
