B. Pre-Session Materials

Creatnet Learning Loop: How do I listen?

This is a Creatnet Learning Loop* that helps you learn about your your way of listening and also shares how your friends/family perceive you as a listener.

Instructions

1. Rate each of the following statements with the options that best describe your own opinion of what you feel is true for you.
2. After completing the assessment for yourself you must then share the same link to your peer who you reasonably know well. Please complete the assessment for yourself first.
3. Share the same email id that you had used to access yourself with your peer/family member/colleague.
4. After they click on the link, instruct your peer/friend to choose: Taking this learning loop for your peer.
5. Upon their submission of the form, you will get a detailed report on how you viewed your listening to be versus
how your peer/family/friend perceived it to be.

6. Click here to engage with the learning loop – How do I listen?.

7.  To understand more about this learning loop and your report engage with the learning loop guide shared below.

*Creatnet Learning Loops are designed to help us provide a language of awareness for our current reality and learn. The purpose is to enable a self-feedback and peer feedback to create self and other awareness and learning. It aims to inform us about what we are able to be/do and diagnoses what we still need to understand and progress towards. In a non-judgemental way, we can bring authenticity and objectivity about one’s own uniqueness and move towards our pathways to progress. Read more about Creatnet Learning Loops.

Learning Loop Guide – How do I listen?

In order to practice right speech, we need to first deeply listen to ourselves, and then to whoever is in front of us. As Thich Nhat Hanh, the Buddhist monk and spiritual leader teaches, compassionate and deep listening relieves the speaker of his or her suffering

Otto Scharmer, Leading from the Future

To view Otto Scharmer, Leading from the Future, Click here

Loving Speech & Deep Listening | Thich Nhat Hanh

Compassionate listening is the kind of listening that has compassion at its essence. Good intentions are not enough to listen to someone deeply and help them suffer less. What is needed is mindfulness of compassion. This helps us to listen deeply even if the speaker is saying something that sets off irritation, anger, or bitterness in us, and will protect us from interrupting, correcting or debating the speaker. The aspiration is to hold mindful compassion in our hearts.