Listening to Children
practice to expand connection with the wisdoms and wonderings of children
self-guided exploration, 1:1 support, and site-based practice
There’s a call for us to slow down and listen, and practice how we listen.
How we listen to the sky, the waters, the beetles, and the trees. How we listen to each other. How we listen to our listening, especially our listening to children.
Many of us have beautiful ways we already listen to children as we support what they need, nurture what they know, and honor their dreams. And…
we have yet to scratch the surface
of the vastness of listening…
listening that travels beyond what we see, hear, and touch,
listening that connects without attachment to meaning,
listening that expands through trust and devotion.
We create a more beautiful world rich in the frequencies of children through our devoted attention and listening to children.
We practice listening to lissssssten.
Not in order to ___.
Process is outcome is all there is.
We listen to children because there is value in listening to children.
Listening as presence, as trust, as awe, as love.
Listening to Children is nourishment to support you as you explore your process of connecting with the children in your life and the child, deep within yourself.
We’ll bring the mind and heart-mind together as we attune to children and…
What we hear—words, sounds, silences, vibrations;
What we see—body movements, eyes, hands; where/what/how;
What’s between—the space around what we observe; empty, vast, relational, overlapping;
What’s beyond—multidimensional sensing; dream, memory, knowing, frequency, more…
Multidimensional listening requires a shift. A rattling and release. An unlearning of “listening” and “practice.” A slow remembering of something else.
It requires our attention to process. Slow, soft, and courageous. Personal and relational. As we trust the in-and-out, above-and-below of spiral.
Our practice together will nourish and support you to:
Sense between, through, and beyond “observation”
Loosen control of your listening
Flow between listening to children and listening to yourself
Explore deeper states of wonder and not-knowing
Connect with/in fields of frequency
Feel playfulness, flexibility, and joy in listening
Deepen your presence in a moment
Experience new layers of connection with children
Find new questions of practice for yourself
If you feel called to this landscape of listening and you’re ready to venture inward as you expand outward, I invite you into the practice vessel of Listening to Children.
Ways to practice together
Self-guided Exploration + 1:1 Support
For individuals (parents, educators, helpers, healers, leaders, and curious listeners)
Intentional layers of practice, including 8 audio-recorded listening practices, reflection questions for integration, invitations to try out in everyday life/work with children, and a 1:1 session for personalized support.
Private webpage (for ongoing, flexible access for a year)
Sacred practice to expand our connection with the wisdoms and wonderings of children.
For individuals (parents, educators, helpers, healers, leaders, and curious listeners)
8 audio-recorded listening practices, reflection questions, everyday practice invitations, and additional resources
1:1 session for personalized support (scheduled by request via email)
Private webpage (for ongoing, flexible access to all content for a year)
After purchasing the course, you’ll receive an email with a link to a private webpage with all course content. Please note that each purchase is for one individual and the link/password may not be shared with others.
Note: All sales are final and there are no refunds once a course has been purchased.
Site-based Community
For groups of 3+ within an organization, community, or informal gathering
Customized for your context and calendar
Online or on-site
Self-guided Exploration and 1:1 Support
This deep, self-guided practice is designed for individuals who:
Are curious about expanded ways of listening,
Long to connect more deeply with children in their lives,
Enjoy learning structures with self-guided flexibility,
Would like the support of a personalized 1:1 conversation to discuss their unique questions and nuances,
Appreciate the focus of a dedicated container with specific layers of practice,
Feel called to explore, unlearn, play, and try new modes of listening connection.
What’s included?
8 audio-recorded listening practices (20ish minutes) for you to listen to in seated meditation or while you walk outside
Connected to each listening practice are:
Questions to support integration and reflection
Practice invitations to weave into your everyday life/work with children.
Big-picture questions to support reflection about mindsets and habits that often get in the way of expanded listening.
Resources (adult books, children’s books, websites, references) for further exploration and support.
1:1 session with me to explore questions and nuances unique to you, your child/ren, and context.
Private webpage (for ongoing access to all content for one year)
What to expect from the audio-recorded listening practices
Each listening practice is a listening experience for you in the moment as well as a practice to apply in your context during the week.
Your initial listening for each practice can take place while seated in a quiet space or while taking a walk outside. Having a notebook/pencil nearby is helpful, but not necessary. Because the practices are pre-recorded, you’ll be able to take the time you need, pausing to care for yourself or reflect on what you notice.
Each audio-recorded practice is 20ish minutes. You’ll likely also want to carve out time for reflection after each initial experience with a practice.
Each listening practice leads into an invitation to try throughout your days alongside what you typically do. They’re designed to deepen your listening within your everyday life, opening how you listen, not adding more for you to do within your days.
What to expect from our 1:1 conversation
Our conversation will explore your personal ways of listening and applications of listening specific to your life/work contexts.
You’ll choose what you’d like to explore in our session. Maybe:
Reflect more deeply on resistances you notice within yourself when you try to let go, loosen control, unknow, or expand from how you typically listen to children/others.
Receive support regarding a child in your life and discuss how you might shift your listening to better understand, allow space for, and connect with the inner light and wisdom of the child.
Wonder together about applications of multidimensional listening specific to your work context and how you might adapt what we’re practicing to your already rich practices of research, teaching, other.
Ask questions personal to you and your context; ask for and receive the specific kind of feedback you need.
Sessions are one hour, online; information about how to schedule will be shared once you register.
Structure
The self-guided exploration for Listening to Children is designed for engagement over the span of 8-10 weeks. It is easily possible to stretch this out to take more time with each practice. The practices are designed in an intentional sequence that build upon each other and support you to slowly expand your relationship with listening.
You may schedule your 1:1 session at any point during your exploration.
Layers of listening
Practice 1: Connect from your heart
Practice 2: Observe a scene
Practice 3: Observe yourself, too
Practice 4: Loosen observation
Practice 5: Play between
Practice 6: Travel beyond
Practice 7: Focus + release
Practice 8: Trust listening
Sacred practice to expand our connection with the wisdoms and wonderings of children.
For individuals (parents, educators, helpers, healers, leaders, and curious listeners)
8 audio-recorded listening practices, reflection questions, everyday practice invitations, and additional resources
1:1 session for personalized support (scheduled by request via email)
Private webpage (for ongoing, flexible access to all content for a year)
After purchasing the course, you’ll receive an email with a link to a private webpage with all course content. Please note that each purchase is for one individual and the link/password may not be shared with others.
Note: All sales are final and there are no refunds once a course has been purchased.
If you prefer to pay via Venmo rather than credit card and/or if you’d like to split your payments into two installments, please email me with your request.
Note:
I’m including a 1:1 session as part of this self-guided option (at no additional cost) because there’s deep value for me to connect with you as you practice listening. Our conversation is designed to support you. And… I want to be transparent and let you know that hearing how you experience these listening practices and how you apply them in your everyday life is also supportive to me as I find new ways to teach and share ways of holistic, multidimensional listening with others. This is new territory and much of this practice lives beyond the language we currently use. I consider this to be deeply collaborative work. We are pollinating new paradigms together as we stretch our ways of listening and talking about how we listen.
Q + A
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Listening to Children is for those who wish to explore their listening. You might be a parent, educator, or caregiver who spends time with one child or many children. You might lead an organization that supports families or communities. You might be retired or working on the edges of systems related to children. You might long to connect with the creative child within yourself. You might be curious about new modes and realms of listening in general (whether listening to children or to trees or with the infinite more-than-human world). Anyone who is curious and open will be able to participate in meaningful ways.
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So much of the attention required when caring for children keeps us at a distance from deep connection with them and what they know. We help and teach and guide and keep them safe. We listen in order to support and nudge and understand. It can feel “impractical” and “frivolous” to listen without observable reasons why, and it can feel challenging to loosen the logics our self-worth tied to the “results” of our “helping.” Yet it’s our listening without an agenda—listening that grows from trust and letting go—that expands our heartfield and opens us to deeper connection with children and ourselves. This takes practice, and practice within a community of other playful, curious humans learning to listen is a beautiful thing.
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No. The material we’ll engage with as we practice listening to children can be real-time listening in an everyday context (e.g., kitchen, library, classroom, bus) or it can be listening to scenes of memory, glimpses of dream, connection with your inner-child, or something else. Physical proximity to children is not a requirement for how we’ll practice listening to children.
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The only “requirement” for our practice together is an openness to explore and listen to your listening. Whether you rarely reflect on how you listen, or you’ve attuned to your practice of listening for decades, the content and process of Listening to Children will meet you where you are.
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I encourage you to have a dedicated notebook to record your listenings (and reflections) throughout our practice together.
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When we try to understand what we can’t see or touch it can feel complicated, abstract, or far away from our everyday realities. But we won’t be practicing in order to understand anything. We’ll practice listening as a way to deeply experience listening. This practice will support our 3D/physical/embodied connection to what often feels ephemeral, distant, or unreal. If this is new to you or it sounds strange, that’s fine. What we “think” about this isn’t important to our practice.
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Yes, from inherent pollination… because any attention we bring to our listening will impact the whole of our lives and those around us, including the ways we already notice and listen to children. If your work includes processes of documentation and description of children, additional layers of perspective and modes of practice will only enhance your approach. The listening we’ll explore in Listening to Children is not separate from, or in opposition to, other kinds of listening; it stretches our capacity to listen in expanded, multidimensional ways.
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I offered one Online Community of Practice (Feb-March 2026) where we practiced listening to children together during live online sessions. After reflection, I decided to revise this design and remove the live Zoom sessions for group practice. Instead, I’ve pre-recorded a series of listening practices as audio files to allow each listener more spaciousness and care for their initial experience with the material. You’ll be able to take the time you need, pausing if you’d like more space to feel something, daydream, or reflect on what you notice. You may choose to listen while seated in a quiet place or while on a walk outside.
My hope is that this self-guided + 1:1 support option will allow more humans to explore and practice at their own pace and become the roots for the rich soils of a community who continues to practice listening in an ongoing way. At a later date, I hope to open another Online Community of Practice for those who have engaged with the initial practice material (self-guided content or site-based community).
Note: I continue to facilitate communities of practice for groups with 3 or more humans who wish to gather (online or local) over a period of time for collective exploration and reflection.
Do you have another question?
I have devoted attention to noticing and listening to children for over three decades and what I know for sure is this:
I will forever be learning how to listen to children.
I come to our work together as both a guide and a learner practicing alongside you.
