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Listening Assessment
Depth · what it can open●●○○2 — reflective
Holding · facilitation0 — self-guided
Trust · group readiness★any
Disclosure · what is sharednone
A daily solo tracking practice: at day's end, estimate how much of your listening happened at each of Scharmer's four levels — downloading (reconfirming what you know), factual, empathic, generative — and watch the pattern over days and weeks. Listening quality made measurable enough to train.
Practical
- Time
- 5-10 min
- Group
- 1–1 · individual
- Settings
- self-guided
- Materials
- A simple daily log
- Mechanisms
- feedback-mirroring, open-awareness, life-embedding
- Change scope
- skill · recurring-practice (once a day, at day's end)
Origin & where it lives
Otto Scharmer / Presencing Institute — Theory U (four levels of listening)
Instructions: open online · CC BY (Presencing Institute)
In this directory via u-school for Transformation — Theory U tools
Related: listening to pause (pairs-with) · deep listening (prepares-for)
status: checked · added 2026-08-26