Facilitating What Wants to Happen: Nicole Taylor on Deep Listening & Presencing

What does it take to create space where real transformation happens? In this episode of Facilitating Change, we sit down with Nicole Taylor - facilitator, leadership coach, and fierce advocate for well-being - who brings a deeply integrative approach to space holding. With roots in yoga, meditation, Ayurveda, and somatic experiencing, Nicole shares how she blends nervous system regulation, presence, and sharp facilitation design to support deep change in individuals and groups. We explore what makes a space truly transformative - from creating the right conditions, to sensing the intelligence of the room, to navigating emergent dynamics with clarity and courage. Nicole speaks candidly about how her own healing journey fuels her fierce commitment to truth, and how facilitators can cultivate the presence needed to guide others through complexity, trauma, and breakthrough. This conversation is a rich offering for facilitators, educators, coaches, and changemakers who are hungry to go deeper - not just in theory, but in practice. Topics We Cover: The lineage and origin of Nicole’s facilitation journey Self-regulation, co-regulation, and the facilitator’s nervous system How to create conditions for depth, trust, and transformation Working with Theory U and sensing the field Naming truth with love - even when it's uncomfortable The power of silence, spaciousness, and being changed together Connect with Nicole: Website: ajoyfulpause.com LinkedIn: Nicole Taylor