LAUREN
POWERS
Adventures In Self Smarts
BOOKS
How To Listen Out Loud
GOOD NEWS:
Listening is much more fun and energizing than we’ve been led to believe.
-
No endless conversations— you can interrupt!
-
No solving required—you can relax!
-
No agreement needed—you can be open-minded!
Your curiosity, your creativity, and your attention are essential qualities in the fascinating pursuit of understanding other people and having them feel understood.
Most books on listening tell you that yes, you should listen better, but they neglect to explain how. Master Certified Coach Lauren Powers shares what she had to unlearn as a below-average listener and her surprising discoveries on the way to Listening Out Loud.
In this entertaining how-to guide, Lauren serves up funny stories, wise advice, and "play date" exercises to help you:
-
Identify your internal blocks to superstar listening
-
Move from the Me Channel to Level Two Listening
-
Crank up your natural curiosity through asking super easy questions
-
Create conversations you enjoy and impress others with your attentiveness
By the end of this mind-expanding book, you’ll understand why you listen the way you do, what to pay attention to, and how to think about listening as a power tool. Simply put, listening well makes other people more interesting and less irritating. Wouldn't that be helpful right about now?
The Trouble with Thinking
In The Trouble with Thinking Lauren describes how our habits of thinking don’t always help us. In this surprisingly funny book, she shows how often we run on autopilot, making up negative stories about our lives and the people in them.
​
Drawing on the latest research in neuroscience and psychology, she describes the way that our emotions, our judgments, our upbringing, even our biochemistry, can affect us more than we would like. The decisions we make based on this “thinking” can lead to all kinds of unhappiness—hurt feelings, antagonistic relationships, and serious mistakes.
​
By detailing our automatic thinking, the Rat Brain Loop as she calls it, Lauren shows how to change this unconscious pattern. For truly, we can make choices about how we interpret information, how we interact with people, and how we can own our thinking instead of letting it own us.
COURSES
Be a Great Listener / Video Course
Most of us want to get better at talking. But the REAL power tool for influencing others, leading, collaborating, having an impact, and being an an-all-around-better person is Active Listening. While regular listening can look like being blank and silent, Active Listening is engaged, creative, and responsive.
​
In this course, you will gain both the internal awareness and external skill-set that are the foundation of Active Listening. This workshop is packed with real-world examples that demystify and simplify what to pay attention to so you can be a great listener. You will be able to have far more satisfying, interesting, successful conversations.
​
​