Listening Now Blog

I’m interested in this idea of “being in your body”, a concept I came across in one of the many self help books and articles I’ve read over the years.  It’s often connected to physical therapies like yoga.  I believe in the wisdom of our bodies; sometimes, perhaps most times, our bodies are wiser than [...]

Full time senior manager at one of Australia’s largest financial institutions. Full time mother to three children, aged 18 months through to 6. Full time partner, sister, daughter, friend.  Tara has a full life.  When she’s not attending to issues at work, she’s attending swimming lessons and birthday parties with clowns and fairy bread.  A [...]

I love autobiographies, memoirs, slice of life stories – anything to do with other people is fascinating to me. I was reading Alan Alda’s first autobiography and he said something very interesting about when he really learned what the craft of acting was about.  He’d been acting for a while and thought he knew what it [...]

If this is your first visit here, welcome!  Here at I’m Listening Now, we’re fascinated by and dedicated to listening – how we do it, how we get better at it, what impact listening has in every day lives and in our relationships.  We’re a relatively new site, although the principles we’re resting on are as old as [...]