Deep Listening - Impact beyond words - Oscar Trimboli

Garth Paine is a composer, scholar and acoustic ecologist.  He crosses art-science boundaries with his community embedded work on environmental listening and creative place-making in addition to his environmental musical works and performances.  His research drives toward new approaches to acoustic ecology and the exploration of sound as our lived context including the application of virtual reali...

Mona Thompson is an improv performer, teacher, and creative facilitator. She has performed and taught in Norway, Finland, the   Netherlands, the United States  as well as   at Stanford  and  Harvard, MIT and Stanford. She has  co-founded Collective Capital, a change and innovation consultancy that helps organisations become more curious, generous, and   resilient using tools from improv and design...

Jenny Taylor is passionate about conscious connection between our breathing and our productivity.   A member of the international breathwork foundation, Jenny is an expert teach er and education on the connection between better breathing and a more productive and fulfilled life . Jenny explains the connection between breathing and listening and takes the time to create simple practical exercises t...

Today we get the opportunity to listen to a retired FBI Special Agent and Chief of the Counterintelligence Behavioural Analysis Program. Robin has taken his life's work of recruiting spies and broken the art of leadership and relationship building . Robin has crafted his Code of Trust for quick results and maximum success.    Author of Sizing People Up: A Veteran FBI Agent's User Manual for Behavi...

In this episode I listen to Tracey and Mark -the co-founders of TRUTHPLANE – one of the most compelling global organisations in the field of business communication.    Tracey advises the world's top companies and individuals on their biggest questions around communication and body language.  Mark Bowden has been v oted the #1 Body Language Professional in the world for two years running   Tracey a...

Author, thinker, researcher and a reputation for asking massively difficult questions oh and occasional comedian David Clutterbuck is o ne of the earliest pioneers of coaching and mentoring.   David shares what makes a powerful question, and the importance of being an impatient listener   Listen for Free

We breathe 25,000 times a day, but we've lost the ability to breathe correctly. Learn what went wrong, how we fix it, and the enormous difference it makes. James Nestor is an award-winning author, who has written for The New York Times, NPR, Scientific American and many more. James has spent the last few years exploring and performing studies on breathing: it's million-year-old history and how it...

How do you listen when time is critical? What do medical staff actually listen for?   Associate Professor Ginger Locke shares the art and science of how medics think and perform. Learn from her experience in training doctors about empathy, curiosity and the dangers of seeking efficiency. Discover the difference between what doctors say and what patients hear, and how deep listening can make the di...

How do you listen in such a way that the speaker better understands themselves? Leadership expert and author, Jennifer Garvey Berger, gives a masterclass in how to listen at Level 5: listening for meaning. Jennifer shares her experiences of shaping conversations through listening, diving deeper than the content of what's being said and revealing what has given rise to the dialogue in the first pla...

Paul Nadeau is a highly decorated former police detective, hostage negotiator and international peacekeeper.  He shares the story of how a terrorist saved his life, and why the cost of not listening can be fatal. Learn how to ask the right questions and build rapport. Paul says that at the core, hostage negotiation and crisis negotiation is listening. Opening a space for them to speak and making p...

Dame Evelyn Glennie is on a quest to teach the world to listen, to themselves and to each other.  Evelyn is an internationally renowned percussionist, remarkably despite being deaf since age 12. She shares the story of an encouraging music teacher, who suggested she remove her hearing aids to listen better. Learn about Evelyn's ability to listen with the whole body, and hear her expert insights on...

Which listening villain are you? Once you know, you can't forget it. 86% of people think they are an above average listener. So rather than thinking about how to listen better, it can be more helpful to notice what bad listening looks like. Meet the Four Villains of Listening: Dramatic, Interrupting, Lost and Shrewd. Each of these villains embodies particular bad habits we fall into, which complet...

How do employee surveys get in the way of listening? How do you listen in face-to-face situations and at scale, to hundreds or thousands of employees? Oscar speaks with Geoff Ho, a renowned director and behavioural scientist. Geoff has worked in Google's People Analytics team and is now at Rogers, where he helps shape the management strategies for more than 26,000 employees. His award-winning rese...

How do you create and sustain a good listening habit? James Clear is a world-leading thinker and New York Times Bestselling author in the field of habits and behaviour change. 10 million people per year visit James Clear's website and newsletters, and his book Atomic Habits has sold over 1.5 million copies around the world. James sits down with Oscar to speak about the intersection of habits and l...

Imagine if you had spent your life studying the silent messages you see when somebody is speaking. Susan Constantine is a world authority on interpreting body language and detecting deception. Susan has worked with the US department of defence, federal court judges, law enforcement agencies and many corporations. Author of 'The Complete Idiot's Guide to Body Language' and upcoming book, 'No Bull'...

Do you struggle with your memory when you are listening? Our research says, that your memory is one of the top five reasons why people struggle with their listening. Rather than listening, you are trying to remember the name of the speaker or what they just explained. Dr Boris Konrad is well qualified to discuss this topic as a neuroscientist and a four-time Guinness World Record holder and an eig...

What does a world champion sniper, a 6 year old boy and a Swedish pig have in common? In this episode we listen carefully to Christina Bengtsson, who has a TED Talk and book on the Art of Focus. What is focus or lack of focus? What should you do when you notice your attention is distracted or exhausted? What is the of breathing for focus and listening? Learn what to do with internal and external d...

Can you listen while you're asleep? Why do we wake up when someone calls our name? And what exactly is the cocktail party problem? In this episode, Oscar speaks with Dr Thomas Andrillon about listening and sleep. Thomas is a research fellow at Monash University, an expert on the brain during sleep. Hear about what the brain can process while we sleep, and what it can teach us for our waking hours....

We are listening role models for our kids. If our children don't listen to us, we may need to begin with listening to ourselves. In this episode, Oscar speaks with global parenting expert, Justin Coulson. Father to 6 daughters, TED talk speaker and author of 6 books. Justin answers the question, 'How do I get my kids to listen?' A great way to begin an engaged conversation is to start with observa...

How good is your multi-tasking? Is it a skill you try to work on?  On this episode of Deep Listening, Prof. Stefan van der Stigchel explains what happens when you multi-task, and why it might not actually exist at all. An expert in attention, Stefan shares how to write notes to best retain information and continue listening. He explains what your working memory is, and how distraction cuts your pe...

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Dr Romie Mushtaq, M.D., ABIHM, is a neurologist whose expertise in Western medicine and Eastern wisdom helps people resolve stress-based illnesses, achieve peak performance, and harness the power of mindful leadership. Dr Romie's discussion with Oscar is a masterclass in Level One Listening - Listening to Yourself. She shares about the role of distraction, breathing and ego in your ability to list...

Level Five listening is listening for meaning. It's the difference between listening to the speaker, and listening  for  the speaker. Recreational listening is listening to the speaker - just the words that they're saying. But when you're listening for meaning, you help the speaker to make sense of what they're really thinking. The meaning goes beyond the present conversation, and into the future....

Listening for the unsaid is Level Four listening. It's the ultimate ninja move of a Deep Listener and it sounds counterintuitive. It's moving your orientation away from what's in it for you, but toward the speaker. Help the speaker understand what they're saying and thinking. Learn how to listen to silence like it's another word in the conversation. Learn how to navigate the labels of 'introvert'...