Deep Listening Foundations — YFE Studios
✦ New Course · Facilitation & Coaching · Certificate Included

Deep Listening
Foundations

Deep listening is one of the most powerful and least practised skills in leadership, coaching, and facilitation. It is not about hearing words — it is about being fully present, tracking beneath the surface, and creating conditions for people to access their own wisdom.

Facilitation & Coaching 8 weeks · Self-paced 11 video lessons Practice partner matching KES 25,000
KES 25,000
One-time · Lifetime access
11 video lessons (~5 hours total)
Practice partner matching
Listening self-assessment tool
Reflective question library (50+ questions)
Bi-weekly group practice sessions (Zoom)
Journalling & self-supervision guides
Certificate of completion
Enroll Now — KES 25,000
✦ Certificate of completion included
Course overview

This eight-week course teaches the evidence-based foundations of deep listening through video lessons, paired practice sessions, and bi-weekly group learning calls. By the end, you will have a listening practice that transforms your professional relationships and your impact.

The four levels of listening — hearing facts, tracking feelings, attending to values, and sensing what wants to emerge — form the core framework of the course. Each level builds on the previous, and each requires a different quality of presence.

1
Listening to content
Facts, events, what is being said — the surface layer
2
Listening to feeling
Emotional undercurrent, tone, what the body communicates
3
Listening to values
What matters most — the implicit commitments beneath what is said
4
Listening to emergence
What wants to be born — possibility at the edge of awareness

Develop the art and discipline of deep listening for coaching, facilitation, and leadership — learning presence, reflective practice, and the courage to truly hear another person.

Format  ·  Video lessons + peer practice + group sessions
11 lessons across 8 modules
Practice partner matched on enrolment
Bi-weekly Zoom group sessions
Listening self-assessment tool included
50+ reflective question library
Certificate of completion
"The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention."
— Rachel Naomi Remen
Who this is for
Coaches and therapists at any stage of practice
Facilitators working in complex community or organizational settings
Leaders wanting to create cultures of genuine dialogue
HR professionals and team leaders managing interpersonal dynamics
What you'll be able to do
  1. Listen with full presence — body, mind, and emotional attunement
  2. Track content, process, and systemic patterns simultaneously
  3. Use silence and reflective questions to deepen exploration
  4. Notice and work with what is not being said
  5. Facilitate group conversations where every voice is genuinely heard
  6. Build a sustainable daily listening practice
Course curriculum
Eleven lessons across eight weeks
Modules 1–2
Foundations of Listening
Understanding what deep listening is, and what gets in the way
01
What Deep Listening Is (And Isn't)
The difference between hearing, active listening, and deep listening — with examples.
22 min
02
The Listening Barriers
Our assumptions, fixes, projections, and cultural filters that prevent genuine listening.
25 min
03
Presence as a Practice
How to arrive in a conversation — grounding, centring, and the somatic foundations of presence.
20 min
04
Levels of Listening
Listening to facts, feelings, values, and what wants to emerge — the four levels framework.
28 min
Modules 3–5
Practising Deep Listening
Building skill through structured exercises and peer practice
05
Reflective Practice Tools
Mirroring, paraphrasing, summarising, and tracking — the core techniques of reflective listening.
30 min
06
Questions That Open (Not Direct)
The art of the open question — how to ask without leading, rescuing, or solving.
25 min
07
Listening to Silence
Why silence is not emptiness — using pause and stillness as facilitation tools.
20 min
08
Listening Across Difference
Cultural humility, power awareness, and how to listen across identity difference without projection.
35 min
Modules 6–8
Application & Integration
Taking deep listening into your professional practice
09
Deep Listening in Groups
Facilitating collective sense-making — listening to the group as a whole, not just individuals.
30 min
10
When Listening Is Hard
Staying present with trauma disclosure, conflict, and high emotion without losing yourself.
25 min
11
Your Listening Practice
Building a sustainable daily and professional listening practice — commitments, habits, and accountability.
35 min
What's included
01
11 video lessons
~5 hours total · Self-paced
02
Practice partner matching
Matched with another enrolled student
03
Listening self-assessment tool
Baseline + progress tracking
04
Reflective question library
50+ questions across all modules
05
Bi-weekly group Zoom sessions
Facilitated practice community
06
Journalling & self-supervision guides
8 weekly guides for reflective practice

Become the listener people need.

Eight weeks of structured practice — building a listening capacity that transforms every professional conversation you have.

ONE-TIME PAYMENT
KES 25,000
Enroll Now — KES 25,000 ✦ Certificate included · Partner matched on enrolment

YFE Studios  ·  Deep Listening Foundations  ·  KES 25,000  ·  8 Weeks  ·  Certificate Included