Are you really listening? The Practice of working with your Listening Filters

May 12, 2025 

7:30 - 8:30 pm ET

CCEUs - CC 1.0, RD 0.0

This event is co-hosted with ICF NYC's International Coaching Week.

Unconscious filters often distort our listening. In this session, learn the art of bracketing—noticing, naming, and setting aside assumptions like “I know” or “I’m right” in real time. Deepen your coaching presence, sharpen active listening, and evoke greater client awareness through this essential practice.

What to Expect Out of This Session:

• A simple framework to recognize and bracket listening filters
• Live practice identifying filters in conversation
• Tools for reflection to strengthen long-term presence and awareness
• Practical applications for coaching mastery

Outcomes:

• Enhance Active Listening: Notice assumptions and hear beyond them.
• Deepen Coaching Presence: Stay flexible, client-centered, and in-the-moment.
• Expand Client Awareness: Evoke deeper insights through unbiased listening.

Please register for the event here:  https://www.icfnycchapter.org/event/are-you-really-listening-the-practice-of-working-with-your-listening-filters/

Brendalyn King is a Leadership & Development Coach with Bhavana Learning Group. She describes herself as “an old-soul millennial, from a lineage of strong educators and entrepreneurs” Her great-aunt and grandmother both began careers in Oklahoma, teaching over 70 years combined.

Brendalyn is ICF credentialed as a Professional Certified Coach (PCC). As a Founding member of Bhavana Learning Group, Brendalyn serves as an executive coach specializing in Leadership Development. She also leads the firm’s monthly Coaches Salon Community Hub to cultivate a Coaching Mindset via Deep Listening Practices. Brendalyn also serves as a Meditation guide at the firm’s weekly Practice field, which services the firm’s clients.

Brendalyn is committed to supporting high achievers in unlearning habitual patterns to create space for emergence. She believes in human potential.