7 LEVELS OF LISTENING

Victor Pierau (2020). Leadership in listening: 

                                   The 7 Levels of Listening for Professionals.

Pierau was an auditor, psychotherapist, and trainer in the Netherlands, spending 7 years researching listening and another 3 years writing this book. 

Listening is ingesting and digesting signals, including objective vibrations and subjective meanings.

There are 3 orientations in listening: 

1.I (ego parts)

2.You (personality)

3. It (the essence, big picture, spirit)

There are 7 levels of listening: 

1.self-focused (managing one's energy: physical, mental, emotional, and essence/spiritual)

2.dual focused (self and others)

3.seletive (focused on needs)

4.empathic (focused on emotions)

5.cognitive (focused on beliefs)

6.synergetic (co-creating with others)

7.silent (essence, intuition)

The orientations and levels crisscross in a table form to create 21 unique listening perspectives.

Intentionally choose your listening perspective, consider: how are your energy levels (self), is there enough energy/attention for self and others, how well can you identify needs, emotions, and beliefs in a given situation/relationship, is it possible to dialogue and co-create with another (as in problem solving and/or decision making), can you go into a silent space beyond ego-parts and let what is there intuitively arise?