Not interrupted, not judged, not analysed, not advised
About 2 hours · Weekly ·
Ning, 34, mother of two.
Every time she tells her husband "I'm exhausted," he says straight away, "Then take a break."
When she tells her mother "I'm anxious," her mother says, "Stop overthinking."
She doesn't want solutions. She just wants someone to take what she says seriously.
If you had 60 minutes where no one interrupted you and no one gave you advice,
what would you say?
Siyu, 29, building a life on her own in a big city.
Friends come to her in tears about relationships, work, family — she's always "the one people lean on."
But when she herself is hurting, she either holds it in or talks herself out of it.
It's not that she doesn't want to speak — it's that she doesn't know who to speak to without being analysed, advised, or told "you should."
If there were a place where everyone came only to "be listened to,"
what would that feel like?
Xiaofan, 41, recently divorced.
Friends say "you'll be fine in a couple of years," family says "just find someone new."
None of it is wrong. But none of it is right.
She doesn't need to be fixed. She needs a room that won't judge her.
If, at your hardest moment, a quiet room were waiting for you,
what would be different?
The Listening SPA is an online mindful-listening group for adults — you're not here to attend a lecture, you're here to practise. It runs once a week, about 2 hours each time. No judgement, no advice — only the space to be truly seen.
Hosts: Nicolas Laurent (ICF PCC coach, mindful-listening supervisor) + Lanny (certified mindful-listening practitioner).
An analogy: therapy is like a hospital — you go when you need treatment; an AI is like a pocket encyclopedia — it can answer anything, but it doesn't truly care about you; the Listening SPA is like a gym — you come to stay in shape, and to be genuinely seen. Friends and family are something else again — they are your relationships themselves, not a space designed specifically for "being heard."
Courses, books and podcasts are all good — they help you "know" more. But between "knowing" and "doing" lies a whole river. The Listening SPA doesn't teach you new ideas; it gives you a fixed place each week to turn what you already know into your own.
| Reading club · Online course · Livestream | Listening SPA | |
|---|---|---|
| You are | an audience | a participant |
| What you're doing | receiving information | practising firsthand: sharing · listening · observing |
| Who the content is for | the same for everyone | every session is about you |
| Afterwards | some ideas | a reading made just for you |
| A month later | mostly forgotten | a visible trail of growth |
Reading and courses help you "know" more; the Listening SPA helps you "practise" what you know into your own — and keeps the part that's about you, week after week.
About 2 hours in total · half of it is real speaking and listening inside your group
↻ In a single session, you take all three seats in turn
In a single session, you take three seats in turn — sharer, listener, observer; one round through, and each seat gives you a different gift.
Pull the lens back from one session to week after week — you grow two lines along two of those seats; and the observer's quiet seat feeds both.
What I love is keeping one fixed slot every week that's just for me. In that time I don't have to do anything at all — just being there, letting my mind go blank, is deeply de-stressing and relaxing. That's what moves me most.
And being in this circle, people don't cut each other off, and nobody throws out unsolicited advice. It gives me a full sense of being held — I get to live at ease, unclenched.
Around the time I decided to join Listening SPA, I was going through a very painful stretch.
It gave me — the me back then — a lot of strength; it was where I slowly began to find myself again.
From there, bit by bit, I recovered the courage and confidence to connect with people, and I picked coaching back up too. I'm grateful there's a place like this.
And from the in-person years, old friends said:
Like a deep spa treatment for the most clenched-up part of your mind — an experience that is badly missing from daily life and badly needed, leaving you relaxed and satisfied.
Every time I come to Nicolas's, I feel real positive energy. Whether you arrive with a question, or with difficult emotions, or with no purpose at all and just come to look around — you leave feeling refilled, settled and encouraged.
My first time at one of Nicolas's workshops. I experienced relaxation and self-awareness; the group created a safe, open listening space together. No judgement, no advice — it was like talking to another version of myself, and something opened up in me.
The facilitator, the other participants and the whole atmosphere together created an extremely relaxed and safe space to speak. As Nicolas puts it: everyone is capable of solving their own problems.
Many people finish coach training but rarely get to practise — not for lack of will, but for lack of a low-threshold, sustainable place to practise that doesn't require finding a paying client every time. The Listening SPA is exactly that place: every session, use what you already know on a real human being.
Using an original approach, we map SPA against the ICF's eight core competencies: the three fundamentals practise four of them directly, and two more grow out of the space itself — six of the eight. The remaining two SPA deliberately leaves open — exactly the ground more advanced training takes you into. Easy to pick up, yet landing right on the key points of professional skill.
For the full competency mapping, read the member guide 《写给学过教练的你》 in full (in Chinese), or read about Coaching Competencies.
| Your membership includes | Listening SPA member |
|---|---|
| Group practice participation | ✓ |
| Personalised reading (private message) | ✓ |
| 🌿 Personal page (your Listening SPA archive) | ✓ |
| └ Subscription status · service catalogue · community progress | ✓ |
| └ Your full growth trail | ✓ |
| └ Full inner-world exploration (15 themes) | ✓ |
| └ Monthly growth summary | ✓ |
| └ Personalised post library | ✓ |
| └ Referral plan + earnings | ✓ |
| └ Official host development track | ✓ |
| 🤖 AI Coach (not a human) | ✓ |
| └ 1 free conversation each month | ✓ |
| └ Weekly in your first month (welcome gift) | ✓ |
| └ More: ￥49 per conversation (￥99 non-member) | ✓ |
| 🌱 WeChat-group companionship | structured daily guidance for 3 months |
| ⏳ Rolling out (2026 roadmap) | ✓ |
| Listening SPA explainer course · AI psychological self-help course (member discount) · AI community co-practice (free for members) · Personality Growth course, basic (free for members) · advanced/pro (member discount) · weekly livestream + permanent home | |
A real demo page (fictional member "Zhixia") · click around freely — your own page starts blank and slowly grows into this
After each week's practice, you receive a personalised reading written just for you. It's not a score, and it's not a generic template — it's written by someone who actually read what you said this session, following your own thread.
It usually does three things: catch what you said this session → point to a moment you may not have noticed yourself → leave you with a question you can carry away and sit with.
What you brought this session was a kind of "stopping yourself mid-sentence" moment — you were talking about that frustrating thing at work, and halfway through you said, "actually, I do know what I should do," and then quickly circled back to the frustrating thing.
There's one place worth pausing on: that line, "I do know what I should do," was said so lightly it almost slipped past. You hurried back to the frustrating part, as if that "already-knowing" self hadn't yet been taken seriously by you.
Something to walk with this week: what kind of moment would make you willing to stay a little longer at "I already know"?
Looking forward to your sharing next week 🌱
Week after week, these messages connect into a growth trail that's only about you — the themes you keep returning to, the questions that go deeper, the knots that slowly come undone, all kept in one place. No course can give you this. (On the listener's path, the progress is even more direct: from mastering the three fundamentals to earning a visible certification level.)
Here's what a few members felt after reading theirs:
The SPA used to be: we talked, and then it was over, and after a while it faded. Now the weekly feedback lets me follow what I shared and see where I can go next — to think a past insight one layer deeper.
For me, the real value of the personal page is the power of a visualized record — so much I'd forgotten myself, and yet it kept it all safe for me. Looking at my growth card is like looking at a little sapling I've raised myself, tended with both hands — it gives me hope, and a sense of strength.
Just quietly reading the content in the mini-program is itself nourishing. So many things I was already half-aware of but hadn't seen clearly — like where a thought enters and where it leaves, and the guidance of pace — it lays them out plainly. What I need is exactly this: to take it in, quietly.
I run the Listening SPA because, 18 years ago, I looked through too many courses and "healings" myself,
and found the hardest thing wasn't the ideas — it was having someone willing to hear me out.
This practice won't make your life better.
It will let you hear what your life is saying.
— Nicolas Laurent
ICF PCC Certified Coach · Robbins-Madanes Strategic Intervention Coach · CAS Psychological Counselor · MOHRSS Family-Education Consulting
Taiji Zen Certified Coach · French Institute of TCM Tuina Therapist · Master's degree, French Engineering Grande École
880+ hours of coaching practice · 1050+ hours teaching & group facilitation · Listening SPA 218+ sessions · 1v1 client satisfaction 9.5/10
18 years in China · Chinese / English / French
Co-hosting every session with Lanny (certified mindful-listening practitioner)
One complete session, about 2 hours
Your own record of it stays in your member page
We'll have a quick chat about your situation before sending an invite
No sales follow-up · stay if you want to, leave if you don't
The Listening SPA is your weekly upkeep. If you want to train deeply through one specific relationship or setting for a stretch, we also run themed bootcamps:
