Listening as an Embodied, Relational Practice
I work with embodied listening to support people, groups, and communities in navigating change through attunement and non-dominating guidance — across human and more-than-human contexts.
I’m Wenlin Tan: Embodied Listening practitioner, Mental Health & wellbeing facilitator
My work draws on mental health and wellbeing facilitation, somatic and mindfulness practices, and over fifteen years of experience supporting individuals and groups through periods of uncertainty, transition, and re-orientation.
At the core of my approach is embodied listening as a relational practice — creating conditions where agency, clarity, and care can emerge without force. Rather than fixing, directing, or optimising, I work through accompaniment: listening with what is present and allowing change to unfold at its own pace.
Embodied Listening in Practice
Listening, as I practice it, is embodied and relational.
It happens through attention, rhythm, movement, breath, and presence — not only through words.
This approach supports non-linear processes, honours complexity, and allows change to arise through sensitivity and trust rather than pressure or control.
Two Pathways
Embodied Listening with People
(individual support & facilitation)
Through embodied listening, I work with individuals navigating anxiety, creative blocks, life transitions, or moments of uncertainty. My work centres psychological safety, deep attention, and respect for the body’s capacity to self-regulate and reorganise when met with care rather than urgency.
Rather than prescribing solutions, I support people to reconnect with their own agency, intuition, and sense of direction — moving forward in ways that feel coherent, sustainable, and alive.
Embodied Listening beyond the Human
(collective & ecological practice)
Alongside my work with individuals, I develop and facilitate listening-based practices that engage water, sound, movement, and place as relational fields. This work explores how humans might cultivate more reciprocal, non-extractive relationships with the more-than-human world.
These practices unfold through workshops, interdisciplinary projects, and research-in-action contexts concerned with care, reciprocity, and ecological attention.
April
Creative Breakthrough coaching with Wenlin was absolutely brilliant.. I feel dramatically different, confident and very clear.
April Perkinson
Marla
Marla Allisan
Laura Sofia Cariolato
Coaching with Wenlin was an incredible experience of deep listening. Wenlin was able to understand even my most hidden needs so I could bring a new energy into my work and all the projects I am carrying out.
Laura Sofia Cariolato
Embodied Listening: An Invitation
If you’re drawn to listening as a way of navigating change — whether personal, collective, or ecological — you’re welcome to get in touch.
From time to time, I also share reflections and simple practices on listening, embodiment, and care.
Wenlin Tan
Listening & embodiment practitioner, Mental health & wellbeing facilitator
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