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Listen from genuine curiosity, welcoming the expression of thoughts, opinions, and especially feelings. When we listen with our whole selves to more than the words, people feel heard and their energy moves into new channels, naturally weaving connection.

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Listening points primarily to:

Honour Each Person

Witness with Compassion

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When listening to a number of people, make it clear that they are all worthy of being fully heard. -- Tom

If people are asking powerful questions, people need to be listening. Yes? -- Tom. Inquiry is a keystone of how listening happens. --Tree

Just because we listen doesn't mean the speaker will feel truly heard. Mirroring is a particularly powerful form of listening which helps the speaker feel fully heard. -- Tom

If you are truly listening you will see that any seeming attacks on you are simply the speaker speaking their own emotions or experience -- or speaking from some tension in the psychosocial field. If you hear it well, its energy will usually dissipate. -- Tom. (Another one i wanted to list but ran out of #s. --Tree)

If you aren't really "there" you can't really listen and usually the speaker can tell that. If you are thoroughly and intently there, your Presence will have a profound impact all by itself, communicating to the speaker that you are with them. -- Tom

Essential to listen to all, not just a few. --Tree

This is what a lot of true listening is about. -- Tom

Other patterns Listening also points to (secondarily):

Good Faith Assumptions

Embrace Dissonance and Difference

Nooks in Space and Time

Subgroup and Whole Group

Tend Relationships

Value the Margins

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Listening+Appreciation

Listening+Embrace Dissonance and Difference

Listening+Feedback

Listening+Go Deeper

Listening+Good Faith Assumptions

Listening+Holding Space

Listening+Letting Go

Listening+Nooks in Space and Time

Listening+Story

Listening+Subgroup and Whole Group

Listening+Tend Relationships

Listening+Value the Margins

Patterns that point primarily back at Listening

Appreciation

Challenge

Dwell with Emotions

Embrace Dissonance and Difference

Feedback

Go Deeper

Honour Each Person

Mirroring

Naming

Not about You

Presence

Shared Airtime

Silence

Tend Relationships

Translation

Value the Margins

Witness with Compassion

Yes, and

How Related

Other patterns that also point back at Listening (reverse secondaries):

All Grist for the Mill

Appropriate Boundaries

Circle

Common Ground

Deliberate

Distilling

Experts on Tap

Follow the Energy

Generate Possibilities

Harvesting

Inform the Group Mind

Inquiry

Letting Go

Spirit

Story

Trust the Wisdom of the Group

Viewpoint Shift

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All Grist for the Mill+Listening

Appropriate Boundaries+Listening

Circle+Listening

Common Ground+Listening

Deliberate+Listening

Distilling+Listening

Experts on Tap+Listening

Follow the Energy+Listening

Generate Possibilities+Listening

Harvesting+Listening

Inform the Group Mind+Listening

Inquiry+Listening

Letting Go+Listening

Spirit+Listening

Story+Listening

Trust the Wisdom of the Group+Listening

Viewpoint Shift+Listening

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