Coach Training - Language of Listening® Coaching Skills

“Being heard is more than a basic human need.
It’s the key to connecting with our inner greatness
and unleashing our full potential.”

— Sandy Blackard,
Founder of Language of Listening®

Have you fallen in love with the Language of Listening® coaching model, tried it, and can’t stop sharing it with others?

If you have a burning desire to learn all you can about Language of Listening® and want to help us take it to the world as an Authorized Language of Listening® Facilitator or Coach, we can’t wait to meet you!

Our new Beyond Connection Program is your first step. It’s immersion-based learning with live calls and a discussion group supported by coaching from Dr. Betsy and some of our other Authorized Coaches. It’s open to all parents or others who want to deepen their experience with our coaching model.

Those who feel inspired to teach Language of Listening® classes for parents will be invited to apply for our 10-month Authorized Facilitator Training. An additional 10 months of Authorized Coach training is available to Facilitator Training Graduates who want to coach others using our life-coaching breakthrough methodology.

If becoming part of our Language of Listening® Network of Authorized Facilitators and Coaches speaks to you, take the first step now – Contact Us to let us know.

Then, join our newsletter to be first to hear when registration opens for the next Beyond Connection Program, starting Fall 2026.

Warmly,

Sandy Blackard, Founder
Dr. Betsy Blackard, Positive Developmental Psychologist

P.S. If you want to start your deeper dive NOW, don’t wait! Try these self-led steps to give yourself a headstart:

Read the SAY WHAT YOU SEE® handbook free online or purchase your own copy.

Get Authorized Coach Camilla Miller’s new workbook, Keeping Your Cool Parenting — From Toddlers to Teens. It’s a course in itself!

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Language of Listening®
AUTHORIZED FACILITATOR TRAINING PROGRAM
(Year 1 of Coach Training)

Prerequisite: Beyond Connection Program

By the end of your Beyond Connection Program, if you find yourself excited about what you’ve learned in your immersion group and classes, are already trying to explain it to other parents, and want to become authorized to lead others through our online classes, our 10-month Facilitator Training Program is your natural next step.

Using a structure similar to our Beyond Connection Program (Immersion Group + Live Calls + Classes), our Facilitator Training program takes you deeper into our class content, gives you the coaching you need to unravel more of your own parenting challenges, and increases your proficiency with our coaching model and premises.

Practicum elements and our level-two Mastery Class will build your confidence in your ability to facilitate other parents’ journey through the level-one online courses you completed in your Beyond Connection Program.

How does the Facilitator Training Program work?

Qualified graduates from our Beyond Connection Program will be invited to apply to our Authorized Facilitator Training Program (see Qualifications below).

Our 10-month Facilitator Training Program runs from January through November with a summer break in June. It builds on the knowledge and experience you gain in your Beyond Connection Program, has a similar intimate structure, and includes more personalized support. Your Immersion Group will be smaller, and everyone will be included in the 2 live calls per month with Dr. Betsy. To take your expertise to the next level, practice in course facilitation and discussion group moderation and an upper-level class are added.

During the first 5 months of your training, you will review the course material from the 101 Basic Coaching Skills Course and 201 Mastery Class you’ve already taken, and practice facilitating those courses live for each other on your calls with Dr. Betsy. Her coaching and the support offered by your colleagues will help build your confidence as you use your coaching skills to help your colleagues apply the lesson content to their situations at home. Facilitating for them facilitates learning for you! And through this experience, you will clarify for yourself the difference between teaching and facilitating and deepen your trust in every parent’s inner wisdom.

During the remaining 5 months, Dr. Betsy will guide you through our 202 Online Mastery Class (Play Patterns) where you will gain additional insight into your child’s play patterns and parent-child dynamics in general. Available only to our trainers, this upper-level course gives you the additional tools you need to help parents spot their children’s play patterns and provide supportive playtime reviews for them in your future classes.

Across the entire 10 months, you will continue to use our coaching model exclusively to guide all of your interactions in your Immersion Group and facilitate each other’s and your own growth as parents using the coaching tools from your classes.

Facilitator Training Classes

Our Facilitator Training gives you an insider’s view of our online training classes which will clarify the multilevel nature of our coaching approach. It will help you integrate it into your life and model what we teach as a facilitator.

January — May

Review and Facilitation of 101 Basic Coaching Skills course and 201 Mastery Class (Power Playtime):
This review allows you to step into the role of facilitator with your colleagues. Responding to their questions and concerns helps you solidify your knowledge of our coaching model, increase your confidence in working with parents, and prepare to facilitate our level-one online classes after authorization, depending on your interest and abilities.

July — November

Lifetime Access to 202 Online Mastery Class (Play Patterns):
Having already completed 201 Mastery Class (Power Playtime) in your Beyond Connection Program, our facilitator-level 202 Mastery Class (Play Patterns) gives you new tools for spotting patterns in any child’s play and in parents’ lives (including your own), and prepares you to provide supportive playtime reviews for the parents in your future classes as an Authorized Facilitator, depending on your interest and abilities.

All 10 Months

Practicum:
Throughout your program, you will gain practice in Immersion Group moderation by serving as a moderator for your own group and the parents’ group in our Beyond Connection Program. Supporting parents at an earlier stage on their journey will help you recognize your growth as a Language of Listening® parent and build your confidence as a facilitator.

What results can I expect?

When you enter the Facilitator Training Program, you will have already experienced the atmosphere of warmth, support, and encouragement 10-months of Language of Listening® immersion can create. With 10 additional months plus practice leading our level-one classes, moderating a parent immersion group, taking our level-two Mastery Class, and receiving more personalized coaching from Dr. Betsy, you can expect a lot of progress toward your goals!

Personal Gains:

Your specific results will, of course, be determined by your individual goals and how much you practice and apply what you learn. As you can imagine, the more you use your coaching skills during this program, the greater your gains.

In general, you can expect to gain new coaching tools and increase your abilities and confidence as a facilitator. You can also expect greater fluency with our coaching model, an increased ability to connect with your child and others, and new insights that speed your personal growth. Your life partner may be so impressed by what you model that they start using our coaching skills themselves. Likewise, you might also start seeing your child(ren) pick up our coaching skills and interact more respectfully with their siblings, friends, and you! After all, children do what we do.

Professional Gains:

As a Graduate of Our Facilitator Training Program:

- Affiliate Program — You will be invited to join our Affiliate Program. As an affiliate, you can earn up to 40% of our class registration fee for each parent you refer who registers for our online training.

If You Qualify for Authorization*:

- Authorization — You will be invited to become an Authorized Facilitator licensed to earn money leading parents through our online 101 Basic Coaching Skills Course and 201 Mastery Class!
- Receive Private Coaching — As an Authorized Facilitator, you will gain access to reduced-cost 1:1 coaching with one of our Master Coaches (Dr. Betsy or others licensed for 5 years or more).
- Guest Posts — You can contribute guest posts to our Language of Listening® blog.

*For more details about authorization, see below: Authorization of Facilitators

What is the time and financial commitment?

The time commitment for Facilitator Training is approx. 8 to 10 hrs/week for 10 months — January through May and July through November.

Your personalized training includes:

Participation in 2 live Zoom group calls* per month (approx. 2 hrs. each) led by Dr. Betsy

202 Online Mastery Class (Play Patterns) facilitated by Dr. Betsy

Review and practice facilitating 101 Basic Coaching Skills Course and 201 Online Mastery Class for fellow trainees

Practicum: Supervised Immersion Group moderation for parents in Beyond Connection Program

Self-moderated participation in the Facilitator Training Immersion Group under Dr. Betsy’s supervision.

*Note: Calls will be recorded but are not meant to substitute for live attendance.

2026 Schedule:

Call time: TBD (call times will be set between 10 AM — 10 PM Pacific Time based on the time zones of participants)

Call days: TBD (usually 2nd & 4th Fridays Pacific Time)

2026 Facilitator Training Fee*: $2,457/year

30-Day Refund policy

*Note: To discuss an alternate payment structure, Contact Us.

Qualifications for joining our Facilitator Training:

The Facilitator Training Program is designed for graduates of our Beyond Connection Program who are passionate about Language of Listening®, have regularly practiced our coaching approach when supporting others in their Immersion Group, and have already begun to share their knowledge of Language of Listening® with other parents outside the program.

This is what we will be looking for as you progress through your Beyond Connection Program:

Alignment with Language of Listening®
1. Love our coaching approach
2. Agree with our premises
3. Can connect what you do & say to our model/premises
4. Display emotional maturity & self-awareness
5. Have successfully used our coaching skills with your child at home
Use of Language of Listening® with Others in the Group
1. Can apply it to children and adults
2. Can comfortably follow another’s lead
  - Can keep your replies focused on another’s experience without bringing yours into it
3. Model our coaching skills when working with other participants
  - Can use the Heart Model when responding to others, even if slightly rigid or formulaic
    - Can stick with just SWYS + STRENGTHs in the first half of your program
    - Can help others find their own CAN DOs in second half
      - Can turn problem-solving over to them without suggesting solutions
  - Can use basic Success Training with other participants
    - Can find & point out hidden STRENGTHs
Demonstration of Commitment
1. Completed all online course modules & homework
2. Watched/listened to all recorded calls and Q&A videos
  - If in Tier 2, attended (most) live calls
3. Made original posts in the discussion group
  - Shared your own challenges and successes, not just observed or replied to others’ posts

Authorization of Facilitators

Our Facilitator Training Program is designed to prepare you to become an Authorized Language of Listening® Facilitator, capable of leading parents through our online classes: 101 Basic Coaching Skills Course and 201 Mastery Class (Power Playtime). Authorization is open to qualified graduates.

This is what is available for you in this training and what we will watch for.

Facilitation Skills
1. Can explain important points in all lessons
2. Can provide supportive reviews of parents’ Power Playtime videos
3. Can manage group participation during group calls
Use of Language of Listening®
1. Proficient in Heart Model & Premises
2. Can recognize the role parents play in their child’s behaviors
3. Can use Success Training with others in deeper way
  - Show others how they are right
Power Playtime Proficiency (Mastery Class tool)
1. Can explain importance of toys, playtime setup, rules
2. Can recognize patterns in children’s play
  - Can identify Running Leaps
3. Can set and explain how to set ‘wall’ boundaries with children
  - Not try to fix child’s reactions
4. Can use Success Training with children
Concrete Tasks
1. Can moderate a discussion group
2. Can answer parents’ questions using our model
3. Submitted 2 successful video reviews of parents’ Power Playtimes per guidelines

Authorization:

Authorization of qualified Facilitator Training graduates is governed by license agreements. Generally, our license agreements are very generous, requiring no up-front annual license fee and royalty rates of 10%. Authorized Facilitators may be contracted by us to serve our parent audience or act as independent agents bringing their own parent clients.

When we contract you, royalties don’t apply. When you work as an independent agent bringing your own audience, you generally earn 90% of the fees you charge for your facilitator services plus an affiliate commission rate of up to 40%* of our class registration fee for each parent you bring. To help ensure your success and ours, royalty rates and registration fees for large parent audiences are negotiable.

Developing Language of Listening®-based training programs and providing authorized coaching services are reserved for our Authorized Coaches.

*Affiliate Program:
Graduates of our Facilitator Training Program are invited to join our Affiliate Program. As an affiliate, you can earn up to 40% of our class registration fee for each parent you refer who registers for our online training.

Language of Listening®
AUTHORIZED COACH TRAINING PROGRAM
(Year 2 of Coach Training)

Prerequisite: Authorized Facilitator

Our Coach Training Program is the peak of your training. This is where you gain the ability to do what we do as coaches. We teach you how to help people discover what they want, meet their goals more quickly, and enjoy life more. Since we trust that whatever they are doing is already working toward their growth somehow, the main thing we do, especially with children, is facilitate their natural growth.

If you are an Authorized Facilitator with a particular aptitude for recognizing your child’s and your own patterns, are ready to look inward for answers, and have already begun to help others in your Immersion Group do the same, this program is for you. It focuses intently on your personal growth so you can step fully into the mindset of a Language of Listening® Coach.

Following the structure you’ve become familiar with in your Beyond Connection and Facilitator Training programs (Immersion Group + Live Calls + Classes), our Coach Training program takes you through our coach-level classes, gives you new coaching skills for detecting and unraveling old adaptive beliefs, and grounds you in the Language of Listening® perspective so it becomes your own.

Practicum elements, including coaching volunteers from our Beyond Connection and Facilitator Training programs, provide the experience you need to start coaching parents independently and designing your own Language of Listening®-based classes when authorized as a coach.

How does the Coach Training Program work?

Authorized Facilitators who are passionate about exploring the personal growth side of our work and want to coach parents professionally will be invited to apply to our Coach Training Program.

Coach training builds on the knowledge and experience you gain in our Facilitator Training Program. It has a similar intimate structure with even more personalized support — your immersion group will be smaller, all trainees will be included in the 2 live calls per month with Dr. Betsy, plus you’ll be given two private coaching calls. To take your expertise to the next level, coaching practice and our remaining advanced-level classes are added.

Like your two previous programs, your 10-month Coach Training Program runs from January through November with a summer break in June. During the first 5 months, Dr. Betsy will lead you through our 301 and 302 YOU Classes (Art of No Compromise & Self-Coaching). On the group calls, she’ll answer your questions and provide coaching.

During the remaining 5 months, calls will be open-floor group coaching with opportunities to coach each other. Two separate private coaching calls with Dr. Betsy will ensure that you experience the breakthrough-level coaching you are learning to provide for parents.

Across your entire 10 months, you will continue to use our coaching model exclusively to guide all of your interactions in your Immersion Group and facilitate each other’s and your own breakthroughs using the coaching tools you will be learning in your classes.

Coach Training Classes:

Our Coach Training classes give you the transformational coaching skills you need to become a Language of Listening® Life and Parent Coach. They take you through our personal-growth classes and into the Core Principles behind our Premises. Adopting our Core Principles as your own gives you a Language of Listening® mindset for life.

You will take these remaining classes as a participant so you can master the skills yourself. At the same time, you will be given behind the scenes tips and materials and assistance to help you lead these classes or design your own for parents in the future.

January — May

Lifetime Access to 301 YOU Class (The Art of No Compromise):
By focusing on your preferences, this class helps you fall in love with yourself, get solid on your boundaries, break through old adaptive beliefs, and take charge of your life.

Lifetime Access to 302 YOU Class (Self-Coaching):
This class gives you our most powerful breakthrough tool for coaching yourself through your triggers and stuck places.

July — November

During these five months, open-floor group coaching calls and no additional classes will allow you to explore your interests and growth challenges at your own pace. Dr. Betsy and the others in your group will follow your lead to ensure that you experience the breakthrough-level coaching you are learning to provide for parents.

All 10 Months

Practicum:
Throughout your program, you will gain practice with your new skills by coaching each other in your immersion group, recording video responses for parents in the Beyond Connection Program, and providing coaching for volunteers from the Beyond Connection and Facilitator Training programs. Your experience and Dr. Betsy’s supervisory support will help build your confidence as a coach.

What results can I expect?

As an Authorized Facilitator with a strong interest in the personal growth side of our work, you can expect to experience accelerated personal growth during this final phase of your Language of Listening® Coach Training.

With 10 additional months of coaching each other and coaching parent volunteers from the Beyond Connection and Facilitator Training programs plus focusing on your own personal growth in our YOU Classes and receiving 1:1 coaching from Dr. Betsy, you can expect permanent, significant, effortless changes in how you see yourself and others! The breakthroughs you achieve during these 10 months will free you from some common parenting triggers so you can coach other parents through theirs.

Personal Gains:

In general, you can expect to gain greater confidence in your coaching abilities. As you experience our coaching model in action at its deepest level, not only will your unique coaching strengths unfold (everyone’s are unique) and your coaching skills flourish, but you will gain the proof you need to fully trust the Language of Listening® coaching model, our premises, and the core principles behind them. It’s one thing to understand our approach, but completely another to experience it yourself and take it on as your own.

Your specific results will, of course, be determined by your individual goals and how intensely you apply what you learn. The more you apply your new coaching skills to yourself and use them with others, the quicker you will attain your goals.

Graduates consistently report complete satisfaction with the results they achieved during their Coach Training. Most add that they got everything they wanted and more! All have seen the benefits spread to their families. Those who have become Authorized Coaches have gone on to help their clients and followers achieve the same. (See testimonials below).

But the best proof of concept we’ve seen is the increasing depth of understanding our graduates display as they continue to use our coaching model in their work, in their family life, and with each other in our Coaches Network.

Professional Gains:

All graduates of our Coach Training Program will retain the benefits gained as an Authorized Facilitator. Those who qualify will be licensed to use our methodology as Authorized Coaches to coach clients and pass along the Language of Listening® philosophy in classes and other products of their own design.

Our Authorized Coaches have designed licensed Language of Listening® parent training programs of their own, authored licensed publications for sale, spoken in parenting conferences, offered private coaching services and live training, hosted parent discussion groups, and more. Active Authorized Language of Listening Coaches are listed here.

Previous Benefits as Authorized Facilitator:

- Facilitating — You can continue to earn money leading parents through our online 101 Basic Coaching Skills Course and 201 Mastery Class.
- Affiliate Program — you can continue to earn up to 40% of our class registration fee for each parent you refer who registers for our online training.
- Receive Private Coaching — You can continue to receive reduced-cost 1:1 coaching with one of our Master Coaches (Dr. Betsy or others licensed for 5 years or more).
- Guest Posts — You can continue to contribute guest posts to our Language of Listening® blog.

As a Graduate of Our Coach Training Program:

- Coaches’ Network — You will be invited to join our private Coaches’ Network discussion group where you will exchange ongoing coaching support with your colleagues.

If You Qualify for Authorization* as a Coach:

- Authorization — You will be invited to become an Authorized Language of Listening® Coach licensed to use our methodology in your own coaching business to coach clients, host podcasts, write books, design and lead Language of Listening®-based classes of your own, partner with our other coaches to create and sell products and services, etc!
- Marketing — When you become active as an Authorized Coach, you will be promoted on our website and in our social media because your success is our success.
- Facilitating 301 YOU Class — As an Authorized Coach, you can lead parents through our 301 YOU Class when we open it to the public.
- Training Facilitators/Coaches — With experience, you can be contracted by us to help lead our Facilitator and Coach Training Programs.

*For more details about authorization, see below: Authorization of Coaches

What is the time and financial commitment?

The time commitment for the Coach Training is approx. 10 to 12 hrs/week for 10 months — January through May and July through November.

Your personalized training includes:

- Participation in 2 live Zoom group calls* per month (approx. 2 hrs. each) led by Dr. Betsy
- Two private coaching sessions with Dr. Betsy
- 301 Language of Listening® for YOU (Art of No Compromise) facilitated by Dr. Betsy
- 302 Language of Listening® for YOU (Self-Coaching) facilitated by Dr. Betsy
- Practicum:
  — Record video responses to parents’ questions for the Beyond Connection Program
  — Provide live coaching for volunteers from the Facilitator Training and Beyond Connection Program
- Supervised Immersion Group moderation for parents in Beyond Connection Program

2027 Schedule:

Call time: TBD (call times will be set between 10 AM — 10 PM Pacific Time based on the time zones of participants)

Call days: TBD (usually 2nd & 4th Fridays Pacific Time)

2027 Coach Training Fee*: $6,457/year

30-day Refund policy

*Note: To discuss an alternate payment structure, Contact Us.

Qualifications:

The Coach Training Program is designed for graduates of our Facilitator Training Program who have become Authorized Facilitators (see above: Authorization of Facilitators)

Beyond authorization, this is what we will be looking for as you progress through your Facilitator Training Program:

You show a particular aptitude for recognizing your child’s play patterns and your own life patterns
You help others in your Immersion Group find their children’s play patterns and their own life patterns
You are interested in changing your own behavior to create new dynamics at home
You are ready to look inward for answers

Authorization of Coaches

Our Coach Training Program is designed to prepare you to become an Authorized Language of Listening® Coach, licensed to use our methodology to coach clients and pass along the Language of Listening® philosophy in classes and other products of your own design. Authorization is open to qualified graduates.

This is what is available for you in this training and what we will watch for.

Language of Listening® Coaching Perspective
1. Demonstrate understanding of our 4 Premises
2. Demonstrate understanding of our 4 Core Principles
3. Demonstrate understanding of the difference between ‘doing’ and ‘being’
4. Can recognize enmeshment and use coaching skills to increase autonomy
  - Not take child’s reactions personally
  - Claim own autonomy
  - Support child’s autonomy
Use of Language of Listening®
1. Can effortlessy interact using the Heart Model & Premises
Coaching Self
1. Can successfully use our self-coaching tools to facilitate personal growth
  - Can ‘break through’ an adaptive belief resulting in lightness, freedom, relief
  - Can find childhood sources of adaptive beliefs and life patterns
Coaching Others
1. Can use Success Training in deepest way
  - Can show others how everything they do works for them in some way
  - Can show parents hidden strengths in their children and themselves
  - Can start with what works and help others fine-tune their coaching skills for greater success
2. Can guide others toward breakthroughs
  - Can help others find their childhood sources of adaptive beliefs and life patterns
  - Can validate and offer coaching perspectives to help others see childhood moments in new ways
Concrete Tasks
1. Coached at least 5 parents
2. Submitted 2 successful video 1:1 coaching examples
  - Successful parent coaching
  - Successful personal growth coaching

Authorization:

Authorization of qualified Coach Training graduates is governed by a license agreement that establishes a win-win relationship and keeps us closely connected. It allows you to earn money using and teaching our methodology and philosophy in return for royalties.

Generally, our license agreements are very generous, requiring no up-front annual license fee and royalty rates of 10% to help ensure your success and ours. We occasionally contract our coaches to help us serve our parent audience. When we contract you, royalties don’t apply.

Authorized Coaches typically operate their own business under a separate name. The Language of Listening®-based training programs they develop and the coaching services they provide carry their name but reference Language of Listening® as needed to help us protect the brand and increase its public profile. The more well-known Language of Listening® becomes, the greater the value of your title, your offerings, and those of all of the coaches in our network. As an Authorized Language of Listening® Coach, you become part of our team.

Affiliate Program:
Graduates of our Facilitator and Coach Training Program, authorized or not are invited to join our Affiliate Program. As an affiliate, you can earn up to 40% of our class registration fee for each parent you refer who registers for our online training. Royalties don’t apply.

Beyond Graduation: Advanced Training Options

Private Language of Listening® Coach Network Community:

As a graduate of our Coach Training Program, you will be invited to join our free Language of Listening® Coaches’ Network Community on Facebook. Like your previous Immersion Groups, you can use this group to provide coaching support for each other as you share your successes, challenges, insights, and breakthroughs in parenting, personal growth, and your professional growth as an Authorized LoL team member.

You do not have to be active as a LoL Coach to participate in this group. Active LoL Coaches are welcome to share challenging client situations (keeping your clients anonymous) as well as client testimonials since those will challenge and inspire us all.

You are also welcome to discuss your LoL business challenges, tips, and successes since each success increases the value of the LoL brand for us all. You can also brainstorm new LoL projects and find other LoL Coaches with similar interests who may want to partner with you. Since the group will include Coaches with a wide range of experience, together we can find a way to make any dream possible! That’s the gift of the LoL Coaches Network.

Prerequisite: Graduate of our Coach Training.

2026 Spring Series: Group Coaching Calls

If you would like to join Betsy and Sandy for these coaching-group style calls, exploring topics of your choice from the perspective of our Core Principles, please register below.

- - Six group coaching calls on Zoom (approx. 2 hours ea.)

- - Calls will be recorded and shared with registered group members

- - 2nd & 4th Fridays, February – April (3 months)
    Feb. 13, 27
    Mar. 13, 27
    Apr. 10, 24

- - Call time: 1:00* – 3:00 PM Central Time
    (* UK & EU – 1 hr earlier Mar 13 & 27 due to USA time change)

- - $50/month (3 x $50 = $150)
    OR need-based scholarship $25/month (3 x $25 = $75)

Prerequisite: Graduate of our Coach Training Program.

REGISTER NOW:
(Choose pymt option + click Buy Now)

2024 2nd Series: YOU Class Refresher

Join us for a facilitated review of our 301 & 302 LoL For YOU Classes for Self-coaching.

The purpose of this refresher is to increase your ability to use Likes, Wants, Shoulds, Rules, and our Self-Coaching Tools with yourself and your clients.

To prepare for the calls, you will be asked to review your previous workbook responses for each lesson and add to them, or download a blank version of the workbook for each lesson and start from scratch. Most of our call time will be spent discussing how to apply the lesson content to right where you or your clients are now.

- - Two Zoom conference group calls per month (approx. 2 hrs ea) led by Sandy and Betsy Blackard

- - Private discussion sub-group for the duration of this series

- - Sept 13 through November 22 (3 months)

- - Calls will be recorded and shared with class members

- - Call time: 2nd & 4th Fridays, 12:30 – 2:30 PM Central Time

- - Participation in a private Facebook coaching group for this class.

- - $50/month (3 x $50 = $150)
    OR need-based scholarship $25/month (3 x $25 = $75)

Prerequisite: Graduate of our Coach Training Program.

REGISTER NOW:

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Testimonials

These are the kinds of results working with Betsy and Sandy helps you produce:

“Sandy, I have been so pleased with my ability to respond to readers lately with the insights you have taught me [via email correspondence]. I wouldn’t have known what to say a year ago, but you have empowered me.

One mom wrote back saying that she cried so hard by reading my coaching and thought I was right. I had helped her see herself in a new way. I cannot thank you enough for equipping me to help people even more!”

— Rachel Macy Stafford, New York Times Bestselling author of the Hands Free Mama book series and handsfreemama.com

“I spent hundreds of hours researching brain development, child psychology, and positive parenting for my evidence-based parenting book. When I came across Language of Listening®, I was amazed by how simply it encapsulated so much of that research. I started practicing it immediately with my 3-year-old. Language of Listening® was so effective at ending power struggles with my child — just for starters — that I edited my book to include it. Later, I jumped at the chance to become a coach.

When I speak about Language of Listening® at conferences, people say it’s their favorite session. When parents and teachers ask me for advice, they say they’re encouraged and inspired. Best of all, they get results. If you coach parents or teach children, you’re already making the world a better place. You won’t find a more powerful program to help you do it.”

— Tracy Cutchlow, author of the international bestseller Zero to Five: 70 Essential Parenting Tips Based on Science and zerotofive.net

“When you take the coaches’ training you are not only getting the best for your clients, you’re getting the best for yourself and for your family. Not only am I super-confident about what I have to offer my clients, I have REAL tools to coach my children to bring out their GREATNESS and I am more connected to my own GREATNESS as well. LANGUAGE OF LISTENING® tools are tools for life.

These tools gave me the skills I longed for as a parent AND they helped me to re-parent myself and become more deeply aligned with who I really am. Sandy is a treasure and if you’ve found her and get to work with her, you are one of the lucky ones. LANGUAGE OF LISTENING® is so much more than what you see here, and the community that Sandy builds around it is a truly supportive and listening community – one that will help you grow in leaps and bounds!”

— Lauren Tamm, author of themilitarywifeandmom.com

“I’ve only been in the training two months and already know that I want to do Coach Training next year. My husband won’t even stop talking about Language of Listening®, and I’m not blowing smoke about that. He really sees how it’s made a big difference with us, and it even resonates with him as an adult. He feels so validated and works really hard to do it with our kids even though it doesn’t come naturally.”

2 years after completing our Coach Training:

“I can absolutely see I changed forever. I’m not drawn into debates or gossip, etc. because I can so clearly see both sides. It’s really freeing for me in that way!”

— Rachel Norman, author of If Mama Ain’t Happy and amotherfarfromhome.com

“I had wanted things to be so different for my kids. I wanted them to have a loving, predictable mom they could depend on for emotional support and feelings of safety. I wanted to give them something I never had, and I thought that ‘want’ would be enough.

The want was important, but I also needed tools. I didn’t even know if the tools I wanted existed. And then one day I came across a sweet lady named Sandy and her website. The way she spoke about honoring the greatness in children and how to hold boundaries with great love as protection instead of punishment, gave me HOPE.

Sandy helped me turn things around for my kids, and for myself. And I was ecstatic the day she welcomed me into her coach training. Learning the tools from her coaching model (Language of Listening®) got me reconnected to myself and a wisdom I didn’t even know I had. It began to lift the fear and the overwhelm, and it taught me how to speak to my children when I saw behavior I liked and when I saw behavior I didn’t like. >>> And, to my joy, that way of speaking always built them up!

The Language of Listening® coaching model brings out the greatness in kids, and in moms, too. And now I get to share ALL of these wonderful ways to experience motherhood with my clients!”

— Rosemary Clark, author of Love the Way You Parent and co-author with Camilla Miller of three Language of Listening® Phrase Books.

“When I was looking for parent training, I was looking for specific things like what to do if a child does this… Language of Listening® is way more than that. It goes to a deeper level to solve the original problem, the source

I enrolled in the Coach Training program because I love the Language of Listening® approach. At first, I doubted my ability to become a coach since I felt that I was not good enough. The coaching model has taught me to listen. Now, I can listen to myself, my kids, and anyone. That sounds crazy but true! This coaching program has helped me to connect to myself and know who I really am. I have been good enough from the beginning!

Listening for greatness allows me to coach myself, adults… just anyone. Making others right gives me different ways to see myself, my kids, and even the world. Meanwhile, I am always able to find possibilities I love. At the very end of the training, a breakthrough I had about kids caring changed my perspective 180 degrees. Parenting is no longer lose-lose or even win-lose. It can be win-win, really!

After the training, I see things differently. I am more aware of who I am and more confident to face future challenges! I feel so lucky and thankful to have found Language of Listening® and be part of it.”

— Chia-Ying Chang, author of Inside Chia blog (for Chinese-speaking parents)

“What had initially sparked my interest in this coaching program was the way Language of Listening® looks at children. It sees their greatness and how they set the perfect level of challenge when learning new skills. Overall, there was sooo much trust in the innate wisdom of kids, well, all people, honestly, that I felt a big relief when listening to Sandy and I wanted to learn more.

What I learned throughout the year-long training was not only a coaching method but a way to look at life and at people that just feels true to me. So I dove deep, questioned beliefs, and learned new ways of interacting with children and people in general, holding boundaries, and trusting my kids and my own greatness.

The results have blown my mind — I have the most loving relationship with my kids (and I say “NO” or something similar more often these days than before!), and my love and compassion for all kids (and people in general, really) has grown immensely. Sandy, Betsy, I’ll be forever grateful for your teachings and hope to spread them to many more parents, teachers, and anyone interested.”

— Anne Hentschel, author of annehentschel.com

“I feel how much I have grown with my kids in this relatively short time, and it just feels great! All of this would never have been possible without your powerful guidance and support! I´m deeply thankful for all of this!

The experience of working with you and the wonderful people in the Coach Training group has given me deeper confidence and more stability when things get challenging. Thanks to all of you, I have experienced that we can work it out, and I don´t have to get stuck again.”

— Angelika Wetter, Argentina

“Taking part in the Coach Training Program was a life-changing experience! It was so good to feel heard and understood! I saw such deep changes in the relationship with my kids as we went through the Mastery I & II class (Playtime and Play Patterns)! The YOU class and working with likes, wants and rules has led to some huge aha moments for me.

Now, I am much more aware of who I am and what I believe. I have gained a new look at my life, and I am fascinated to see so many possibilities in front of me!”

— Julia Kurskaya, Russia

“Before I started the Coach Training, little I knew of what a huge impact it would have not only on my own life but the life of my whole family and all the relationships I am creating each and every day.

To be honest, I was only searching for some tips on how to approach my sons in a loving and respectful way during challenging moments. What I found throughout those two years of Sandy`s genuine leading and a huge support of the small closed group of amazing, wise human beings is, that even in challenging moments one can be respectful to the self and the other, that it is possible to hold the space for fulfilling your own needs and at the same time the needs of your loved ones.

Through all those conversations we had, all thoughts we shared and exercises we did, I was coming closer and closer to my center, true self. Acting from my centered self allows me to listen without judgment and respond instead of react. I can step out from my learned reactions, skip all the assumptions, and truly listen with an opened heart and mind.

What left me in awe was the fact that through my changed communication and listening, my husband was changing his communication and listening without me even telling him.

I recommend this training to all parents, teachers and coaches who wish to create deep, respectful, and meaningful relationships; to those who are willing to reach another level of listening, being, and understanding; and to all of you who have the courage to look deep inside yourself and reconnect with your true, powerful, centered self. This training creates a space for you to make a difference in your life and the life of the community you live in.”

— Zuzana Macková, author of mothering.cz (for Czech-speaking parents)