How can you tell you listen well? ~ The Four levels of Listening

We all agree that listening is one of the most important skills as a coach.

So here is an interesting question: how can you tell you listen well?

Part of honing and developing your coaching skills is about becoming aware of the subtle parts of the coaching process, and how you know what you do is working for your client at any given moment.

Experienced coaches often say ‘well, I feel it’, or ‘it’s intuitive’.

But it’s really interesting to start to find out more about that intuition, and where it comes from.

Because you will find that there are observable signals and behaviours that you pick up on. And once you become aware of them, you can also start to see where you may miss signals, and where your interpretation can be upgraded.

That’s exciting!! Because this is where you can grow their skills considerably, making it less hard work and more co-creation with their clients.

In this episode, we focus on the Four Levels of Listening that Otto Scharmer identifies in Theory U, and the relationship with Holding Space like we do in Soul-based Coaching. I’m joined by Judith Peters, Certified Soul-based Coach and long time facilitator of transformation in organisations, for a rich conversation on something that seems so obvious.

One of the most exciting parts of this conversation is that it points to conditions for emergence: for things, ideas, changes, to be born that did not exist before.

This is the hallmark of Soul-based Change, and what we expect to happen in our sessions: we are leaning into an emergent future.

As Judith says: “This is why we are here. This is the job. Opening the door for the future.”

Have a listen and let us know your thoughts!

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