On the back of yesterday’s blog, let us take a look at what Deep Listening is. Based on
the book The Coaching Manual written by Julie Starr (p80-81), Deep Listening is the ability to listen to and understand another person from insights into what they have said, or even understand what they have NOT said.
The characteristics are:
1) The mind of the listener is mostly quiet and calm.
2) The awareness of the listener is entirely focused on the other person.
3) The listener has little or no sense or awareness of themselves
4) The listener is totally lucid and present to the person speaking
5) This state can easily be broken or disturbed, e.g. by the speaker asking the listener a question, or seeking acknowledgement of some sort.