META-COACHING & SACRED LISTENING

Sacred listening is the very special kind of deep, attentive, and active listening that we encourage Meta-Coaches to develop in Meta-Coaching. Now the word sacred here has nothing to do with religion or even spirituality. It comes from a sociological distinction as it distinguishes instrumentality and non-instrumentality. When you do something for an instrumental purpose you are some end in mind. You are doing something in order to achieve some other objective. The instrument is a means to that end. So to understand sacred listening, turn this around and non-instrumental refers to doing something without a means in mind. It is to do something in such a way that the process itself is your objective. The process is valuable in and of itself.