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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)
Instructions
- Where
- u-school.org/listeningassessment — u-school for Transformation — Theory U tools, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
- Licence
- CC BY (Presencing Institute)
Source link checked 29 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 28 Aug 2026
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Origin
Otto Scharmer / Presencing Institute — Theory U (four levels of listening)
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