4 Levels of Listening
Meeting 1 · Date & time TBA
Our meet & greet: get to know each other and the format. We’ll open with a conversation about nine possible topics, then try the approach with a facilitated conversation on the 4 Levels of Listening.
Moms learning, practicing and growing around topics that matter to them.
¿Prefieres en español? Also offered in Spanish. Ver el sitio en español.
Dates and times will be announced soon. From Meeting 3 on, the topics are yours to choose, and every future meeting will be designed and adapted based on your feedback.
Meeting 1 · Date & time TBA
Our meet & greet: get to know each other and the format. We’ll open with a conversation about nine possible topics, then try the approach with a facilitated conversation on the 4 Levels of Listening.
Meeting 2 · Date & time TBA
Using the OK Corral model, Katherine introduces the ideas and answers your questions, then we move into reflection, paired coaching and debrief.
Meeting 3 · TBD
Shaped by your feedback.
Where: Montauk School, or another location to be announced.
Arrive, breathe, say hello. Nobody has to perform the minute they walk in.
Katherine introduces the concept of the day: what it is, where it comes from and why it works.
An open group conversation: your reactions, stories, questions and ideas about the model.
Partner up: 15 minutes coaching, then 15 being coached, applying the model to real life with our co-coaching guidelines.
Katherine brings everyone back together to share what surfaced and what each person will try next.
Large organizations spend real money helping their people communicate, adapt and lead. Those same frameworks are just as useful at the kitchen table, on the school pickup line and in the quiet moments of figuring out what success looks like now. MomsTauk offers them to the parents and caregivers in our community who want them.
A single, well-tested framework, explained simply, that you can use the same day.
Your stories and reflections shape how the idea lands. Everyone brings something.
Paired coaching turns the concept into a real next step in your own life.
Peer coaching works when everyone plays by the same few rules. These keep the space safe, honest and useful for the person being coached.
Your partner is the expert on their own life. Hold back the fix and help them find theirs.
Listen past the words to what is emerging for the person, and who they are becoming.
Say back what you heard in your own words, so they can hear themselves more clearly.
Don’t rush to tidy up hard feelings. Let the discomfort have some room.
Notice what’s yours, your assumptions and your story, before it steers the conversation.
Ask what, how and “tell me more”: questions that can’t be answered with yes or no.
Close with one small, concrete action your partner chooses for themselves.
What’s shared in your pair and in the room stays there. Take home your own lessons, not other people’s stories.
“The answers are already in the room. Our job is to listen so the solutions can surface.”
Every family, path and pace is different, and that is the point.
We honor each person’s story, time and boundaries.
We grow by adjusting as life changes, not by getting it perfect.
Questions before conclusions, about each other and ourselves.
We handle each other’s words and trust with care.

Katherine founded Invisible Culture in 2000, while living in Singapore, and has spent the years since delivering cross-cultural training and global leadership coaching to employees and executives of multinational corporations, including seminars for Fortune 500 companies around the world. She holds a master’s degree in organizational psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University, and has lived in Australia, Singapore, China and Costa Rica.
Her work rests on a simple idea: our differences are not something to overcome, but to understand and embrace, moving from awareness of self, to awareness of others, to adaptation. MomsTauk brings that same toolkit to the parents and caregivers in her own community.
Reach out through the Montauk School PTA. We’re happy to tell you more.
Where: Montauk School, or another location to be announced.