Name: Listening So Your Child will Speak & Speaking So Your Child Will Listen (Part 1)
Start: 2025-05-09T09:45:00+0800
End: 2025-05-09T11:00:00+0800

Friday May 9, 2025 9:45am - 11:00am CST

Middle School Library

The title of this workshop is a play on the popular book by Faber & Mazlish (1999) who called their work: How to Talk so Kids will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk. In fact, the title should be reversed so that listening comes first: deep listening is the foundation for trust and for risk taking. It sets psychological safety in the environment so that children (and adults) of any age can feel seen and heard. This allows the conditions for individuals to engage in conversation and contribute thinking and ideas. 

Part 1 will focus on deep, active listening, a very old Chinese concept represented by the character 聽 (ting). We can signal our nonjudgmental listening through the use of paraphrasing, sending three very powerful messages: “I’m listening”, “I care”, and “I understand” (or, “I’m trying to understand”). The act of paraphrasing provides psychological safety so the speaker feels heard rather than judged.

Speakers

Dr. Ochan Kusuma-Powell

Ochan Kusuma-Powell is co-founder and director of Education Across Frontiers, an organization that promotes teacher education towards the development of professional learning communities. A graduate of Columbia University with a doctorate in international education development, she... Read More →

Friday May 9, 2025 9:45am - 11:00am CST
Middle School Library

Parent/Student Session

EduLead 2025

Dr. Ochan Kusuma-Powell

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