experience the power of

Radical Listening

Radical Listening is one of many mindfulness-based leadership programs InsightOut offers to inspire wisdom and well-being in your workplace and community.

Experience the benefits

invite in deeper listening

Walk away practical tools to:

  • Lean into your innate presence and power to lead with greater authenticity.

  • Trust your own and others’ capacity for right action, right speech, and right livelihood.

  • Deepen empathetic and active listening skills to overcome bias and prejudice.

  • Inspire greater trust and compassion within your team and community.

  • Manage difficult conversations with grace and insight.

  • Feel heard and understood by your friends, family, and colleagues.

  • Liberate yourself from deeply held fears of expressing what matters to you the most.

Learn how to:

  • Move towards a richer appreciation of your innate presence and power.

  • Unlearn the habituated ways you communicate and explore fresh approaches to renew connection.

  • Enrich and enliven your personal and professional relationships. Deepen the clarity of your heart and mind.

Try it!

Deepen your own skills of listening. Learn to lead from an intentional and heart-centred place.

Delve into these free resources to learn how to listen non-judgmentally. Speak with fewer words. Ground your experience in deeper belonging.

fewer than ten

Choose words wisely. Empower your personal presence. Nurture relationships.

Based in contemporary neuroscience, the practice of “fewer than ten” aligns with what cognitive scientists and psychologists have long known about human memory systems.

Part 1

Enjoy a grounding practice of breath, mind, and body. Learn to speak from your heart with sincere intention and practiced peace. Activate the systems in your central and peripheral nervous systems that enable greater clarity of thought.

Part 2

Bring the radical art of speaking with “fewer than ten” words at a time into your daily interactions to inspire patience and perceptivity.

streaming

Learn the fundamentals of “stream of consciousness” creative practice and participate in the liberating art of “streaming” and non-judgemental listening in interpersonal dialogue.

Part 1

Part 2

sole-to-soul listening

Discover how intentional practices in mindful walking can improve skills of communication and enhance a sense of belonging.

Learn more about Dr. Miller’s personalized approach to “mindful walking” embedded in the Zen, Vipassana (Insight meditation), poetry, and dance traditions.

The artist walking across the Burren in County Claire, Ireland

Click the image above to view one fragment of Dr. Nancy Ellen Miller ‘s dissertation on the art of mindful walking. Explore walking as one way to access your innate skill of deep listening and to practice your own unique art of authentic communication.

“Half the walk is but retracing our steps. ”
— Henry David Thoreau

Meet your instructor

Dr. Nancy Ellen Miller

Dr. Nancy Ellen Miller is an educator, coach, consultant, and interdisciplinary artist with two decades of experience as a creative leader. 


Whether dancing her doctoral thesis at Dartington Hall in Devon, England, teaching the principles of creative flow to teachers-in-training at Howest University in Bruges, Belgium, or co-leading a silent meditation retreat in Oaxaca, Mexico, Nancy works diligently within the dharma, or teaching, that we’re all (inter)connected.

Committed to deepening her own and others’ heart of insight, Nancy encourages “practice-led” and “research-based” insights that tends toward the unorthodox. She encourages soulful experimentation with concepts. Her interdisciplinary artwork exploring memory, nature, and loss has been highlighted at symposiums and exhibitions across Europe.

Nancy’s practice of Radical Listening (whether as an educator, artist, or coach), has deepened her connection to her native country of Canada and has connected her more fully to the people and places she has worked with and within abroad in Wales, America, England, Ireland, India, Nepal, Thailand, the Czech Republic, and The Netherlands. 

Studying and teaching yoga at ashrams and monasteries across the UK, Europe, the Americas, East Asia, and SouthEast Asia, in her work as a certified mindfulness-based coach, Nancy integrates applied neuroscience and somatic healing practices in her training.

Nancy specializes in helping leaders to move from disempowering states of mind to ones of deeper presence and power.

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to your teacher

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to your student

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to your father

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to your anscestor

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to your hyacinth

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to your geranium

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to your hibiscus

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to your emptiness

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to your elbow

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to your inner wisdom

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to your toast

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to your host

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to your ghost

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listen! ☆ to your teacher ☆ to your student ☆ to your father ☆ to your anscestor ☆ to your hyacinth ☆ to your geranium ☆ to your hibiscus ☆ to your emptiness ☆ to your elbow ☆ to your inner wisdom ☆ to your toast ☆ to your host ☆ to your ghost ☆

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do something radical

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écoutez!

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à ton battement de coeur

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à ton ami

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à ton chien

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à ta copine

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à la lueur des bougies

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à ta belle âme

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à ton voisin

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à ton oncle

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à ta tourterelle

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à ta tortue

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à ta planète

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à ton pouls

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do something radical ☆ écoutez! ☆ à ton battement de coeur ☆ à ton ami ☆ à ton chien ☆ à ta copine ☆ à la lueur des bougies ☆ à ta belle âme ☆ à ton voisin ☆ à ton oncle ☆ à ta tourterelle ☆ à ta tortue ☆ à ta planète ☆ à ton pouls ☆