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Better conversations.
Stronger connections.
Real breakthroughs.
Change the way you listen.
What if changing the way you listen could transform the way you communicate, connect and understand others?
Seven-week, self-paced online course · Special workshop participant offer
Stay grounded
under pressure
Listen beyond
the story
Create space
for insight
Ever walked away from a conversation wishing it had gone differently?
Good intentions can still get lost along the way.
You go in wanting to understand each other. Somehow, the conversation goes south. You leave wondering what happened.
Do your conversations sometimes go south, leaving you wondering what happened?
Do you feel misunderstood, even when you think you’ve communicated clearly?
Are there certain people you dread having conversations with?
Do you replay conversations in your mind, questioning what was said?
Do misunderstandings turn into frustration, conflict or emotional distance?
Do you struggle to get the best out of important conversations?
What if the problem isn’t simply what you’re saying, but how you’re listening, interpreting and responding?
THE CONVERSATION AFTER THE CONVERSATION
Because conversations don’t always end when we stop talking.
Sometimes they follow us home. We replay a sentence, question our tone or wonder why we weren’t understood. Frustration can turn into self-doubt. Anxiety can make the next conversation harder to begin. Unspoken resentment can create distance.
At work, we put off feedback or avoid asking a question. At home, we hold back from people we care about. If that feels familiar, you’re not alone—and these patterns are something we can learn to notice and change.
There is room for a different response.
Hello, I’m Sarah
I’m Sarah Xanthos, a Human Connection Specialist.
I’ve brought together my study and practice of communication, my background in corporate human resources, and years of one-to-one coaching and client work. Along the way, I’ve seen how changing the way we listen and respond can open up a completely different conversation.
As clients and practitioners experienced this approach, they began asking, “Sarah, can you teach us how to do this?”
So here it is. This course brings together the tools, insights and practices I’ve developed and used over the years, in a practical, step-by-step formula you can learn at your own pace.
My aim is to help you become an extraordinary communicator—someone who can hold space, listen with presence and create room for genuine understanding, connection and breakthroughs.
WHAT ARE WE REALLY HEARING?
We bring more than words to a conversation.
Holding Space
Be present with someone without rushing to fix, judge or fill the silence. Explore how to make room for another person’s experience while staying grounded in your own.
Your Pre-Set Listening Lens
Our experiences, beliefs, expectations and assumptions shape what we hear. When we notice that lens, we can become curious about what we may have missed. Explore the difference between what happened and the story we make it mean.
Going Neutral
Notice when you are preparing a defence, making a judgement or trying to convince. Practise stepping back from those reactions so you can check your understanding and hear another perspective.
Power Pause
A pause creates space between what happens and how we respond. In that space, we can notice our reaction, question an assumption and choose a response with more presence.
Conscious Communication
Bring greater awareness to your words, tone, pacing and presence. Explore how the way you respond can support clarity and understanding in conversations that matter.
Reflection, Oh, Channel Guidance
Make room for reflection and guidance without rushing to supply an answer. Explore listening with presence and allowing space for insight to emerge.
Reflection and Pause
Take time to notice what a conversation has shown you. Reflect on your responses, pause before moving on and bring what you discover into your next conversation.
INTRODUCING
Learn to have conversations that connect, not disconnect.
The Transformational Communication Course
A seven-week, go-at-your-own-pace online course to help you recognise habitual communication patterns and practise a different way of listening and responding. Bring what you discover into the conversations that matter at work and in life.
Recognise your Pre-Set Listening Lens
Separate facts from the stories we create
Become less reactive and more aware
Listen with greater presence and emotional understanding
Navigate difficult conversations with more confidence
Build genuine understanding and connection
A LOOK INSIDE
Your seven-step communication formula
Create a grounded, non-judgemental space where another person can feel heard. Explore the difference between being fully present and trying to fix, rescue or advise.
Notice the urge to interrupt or prepare your next response.
Practise centring yourself and listening without directing the conversation.
Reflect on what changes when someone has room to explore their own experience.
Recognise the filters shaped by your experiences, beliefs and assumptions, and how they influence what you hear and make it mean.
Notice when you are judging, comparing or rehearsing a response.
Explore the difference between the facts of an event and your interpretation.
Practise curiosity and checking your understanding.
Develop a calm, grounded presence that helps you support someone without becoming caught in their story or emotional charge.
Recognise when a conversation touches your own assumptions or reactions.
Explore grounding and the manual’s energy protection practices.
Return to listening with openness rather than needing a particular outcome.
Learn to leave room for reflection instead of filling every silence. Explore how a pause can support someone to clarify their thoughts and discover their own next step.
Practise staying relaxed when a conversation becomes quiet.
Explore open ‘what’ questions and gentle follow-up prompts.
Notice the difference between giving space and withdrawing from the conversation.
Bring intention to your voice, body language and questions so your responses support connection and understanding.
Explore tone, pacing and expressive communication.
Practise engaging fully with the person in front of you.
Ask open questions that invite reflection rather than pushing for an answer.
Explore the manual’s approach to inner wisdom and intuitive awareness while remaining present, grounded and neutral.
Prepare through grounding, intention and awareness of your own state.
Notice the difference between a calm insight and the pressure to fix or impress.
Keep guidance respectful of the other person’s choices, without treating assumptions as certainty.
Bring the conversation to a thoughtful close by helping someone hear and integrate their own insights.
Practise summarising and paraphrasing from the other person’s perspective.
Pause so they can confirm, clarify or adjust your reflection.
Support their own sense of what matters and how they want to move forward.
Learn the framework, return to the practices, and bring what you discover into the conversations that matter to you.
YOUR COURSE INCLUSIONS
Learn in your own time.
Practise with support.
Learn at your own pace, with two workshop participant bonuses to support your continued learning.
Go-at-your-own-pace course
Work through the online content at a pace that suits you, with a framework you can strengthen through practice.
Online learning
Bonus two: live online classes with Sarah
14 July – 25 August 2027. Seven weeks of live online classes to continue learning, ask questions and practise applying the concepts. These sessions are an additional bonus; your online course remains self-paced.
Seven weeks · Included at no additional charge
Certificate on completion
Receive a Certificate in Transformational Communication Coaching upon completion of the course.
Recognise your learning
Bonus one: one month of membership
One month of membership included at no additional charge, to support you as you continue your learning.
Included with your workshop participant offer
Continue your learning
Special workshop participant offer
Regular price: $697 AUD · Special price: $444 AUD
Seven-week self-paced online course, plus both bonuses.
Prefer a payment plan? Six payments of $77 AUD every 30 days, totalling $462 AUD. Both bonuses are included.
Review your selected payment option and the terms before completing enrolment.
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BEFORE YOU ENROL
A few helpful answers
This is a seven-week online course you can work through at your own pace. The bonus live classes run from 14 July to 25 August 2027 and provide a separate opportunity to ask questions and practise.
Your enrolment includes 12 months of full access to the Transformational Communication Course.
Pay $444 AUD in full, or choose six payments of $77 AUD every 30 days, totalling $462 AUD. Select your option at checkout.
For help with the course or live bootcamp, contact Sarah at sarah@wallanhealingtree.com.
Make space for a different conversation
You don’t have to have all the right words. Start by discovering a different way to listen.
$444 AUD workshop participant price · Self-paced course + one month of membership + seven weeks of live online classes
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