The Heart of Sacred Listening
Amba is writing her next book!
What if listening—truly listening—
could transform your life?
In The Heart of Sacred Listening, master coach and award-winning author Amba Gale invites you on a transformational journey inward, where silence becomes wisdom, and listening becomes power. Through narratives, teaching reflections, and soul-stirring questions, this book opens a portal into deep connection with yourself, with others, with the world, and with the divine.
For over four decades, Amba has guided leaders, seekers, teachers, and creatives through personal and professional thresholds. Now, she brings that wisdom to the page, helping you:
- Rediscover the art of listening from the heart
- Heal relationships by shedding judgment and stories
- Turn inner criticism into compassion
- Meet life’s obstacles with resilience, grace, and creativity
- Create a new future aligned with purpose and wonder
Drawing from personal stories, spiritual traditions, and profound inquiries, Amba offers more than a book—it’s a sacred conversation, a reflective companion, and a call to awaken.
IF YOU ARE READY TO LET GO OF WHAT NO LONGER SERVES YOU AND STEP INTO A MORE AUTHENTIC, JOY-FILLED WAY OF BEING, THIS BOOK IS YOUR GUIDE.
How do I get it?
As the book is not scheduled to be launched until April 28, you can’t buy the book yet. But I am publishing it as a pre-release on Awakening Heart, my writer’s platform. Read the first four chapters and see if you want to join the community that is reading!
Enjoy this five-minute interview with Jack Canfield, co-author of the
Chicken Soup for the Soul books about my work.
“I absolutely love Amba and her work. If you are smart, you’ll become a student of Amba’s brilliant work, first by reading her wonderful, rich book, which is filled with both inspiring stories and powerful and practical advice and strategies for having your relationships work. If you do, you’ll end up being a much better person, a happier person, and you’ll be in touch with your own divinity as well as the divinity of others. Because Amba, herself, is a divine gift you can give yourself, I also encourage you to explore personally working with her. I promise you’ll be glad you did.”
— Jack Canfield, Coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul® series and
The Success Principles™: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be
Book Endorsements
In this book, Amba Gale describes her own arduous journey towards learning “The Art of Sacred Listening”. Thereby, she proves two points:
1- That Biography is a most convincing tool for teaching.
2 – That listening with the heart is indeed a sacred art worth acquiring.
– David Steindl-Rast, Benedictine monk and author.
https://www.bibliothek-david-steindl-rast.ch/
Book Endorsements
I recommend this book to anyone seeking to live a fulfilling life. Throughout The Heart Of Sacred Listening, Amba’s radiant spirit and hard-won wisdom touched, moved, and inspired me. Her writing is both clear and poetic, and reading her book is like sitting down with your best friend for a conversation that, like Amba herself, is as heartwarming and fun as it is difference-making.
– Sandy Robbins
Book Endorsements
“The most meaningful part of this book is Amba’s personal stories – both of herself and those she has coached. Amba has poured so much of herself and her work into this one book. It will introduce you to a world of new practices and possibilities.”
– Ryan Joy, Christian Minister
Book Endorsements
“This insightful, content-rich book could not be more timely. If only – oh, if only! – we all had the skillset, and the courage, to really listen from and for the sacred space within each of us, this world would be a very different place.
Hooray for you, Amba, for presenting such time-tested, potentially life-altering learnings and distinctions, and for doing so in your own inimitable style. This food for thought is clearly served straight from the heart.
In addition to your soul-satiating “main course” material, you offer the reader well-chosen side dishes: personal stories, historical perspectives, Your Turn prompts – all with delightful sprinkles of Amba-isms throughout. These rich ingredients combine to make this beautiful book a deeply-nourishing transformational experience. Brava!”
– Nancy Hopps
Author of All the Courage Love Takes: Moving through Crisis and Uncertainty with Grace, Grit, and Gratitude and the Relax into Healing series of audio recordings.
Book Endorsements
I absolutely love your book! It has reinvigorated the “deep work” I began with you during the Heart of Leadership. This book offers timeless principles that enlighten, enliven, and truly have the power to transform lives. The stories you share are powerful and bring the content to life, while the “stopping off” points are thoughtfully placed to encourage the reader to reflect and apply the lessons. This is the book I always hoped you would write — and here it is!
– Bill Weymer, former CEO. Town and Country Markets
Book Endorsements
Such wonderful wisdom and I find myself going back into it to read it for different meanings and introspection.
Being open to receive the wisdom you seek to share is a pleasure and I only hope others can find the book as helpful as I do.
– Tim Tackett, Manager
Book Endorsements
I see how this book could encourage immediate life-changing shifts in thinking or be used to aid a long-term process of self discovery or workplace dialogue.
I think this is a great diving board for guided self-help in a style that can be taken at any speed, referenced back to over and over, with the option to learn even more independently or to enroll in a course.
I love all of yourself that you include within this book. We (the reader) feel like they know you
or want to know more, by the end of the book. I feel that I might know a little too much to be a “beta” reader but I imagine that 2 types of people will be reading this book: people who already know you or have taken one or more of your courses & people who need help. I think this is a great diving board for guided self-help in a style that can be taken at any speed, referenced back to over and over, with the option to learn even more independently or to enroll in a course.
– Missy Meyer, Physician
Book Excerpt
What if listening—truly listening—could change your life?
In The Heart of Sacred Listening, master coach and award-winning author Amba Gale invites you on a transformational journey inward, where silence becomes wisdom, and presence becomes power. Through poetry, teaching reflections, and soul-stirring questions, this book opens a portal into deep connection—with yourself, with others, with the world, and with the divine.
- Rediscover the art of listening from the heart
- Heal relationships by shedding judgment and stories
- Turn inner criticism into compassion
- Meet life’s obstacles with resilience, grace, and creativity
- Create a new future aligned with purpose and wonder
Drawing from personal stories, spiritual traditions, and nature’s teachings, Amba offers more than a book—it’s a sacred conversation, a reflective companion, and a call to awaken.
If you are ready to let go of what no longer serves you and step into a more authentic, joy-filled way of being, this book is your guide.
Other Publications
Amba was a celebrated author, invited to submit a 500-word essay about people’s relationship with Spirit.
In Crossing Thresholds, Island Reflections, best-selling author, transformational coach, and founder of Gale
Leadership Development, Amba Gale invites you to join her in connecting with nature and tapping into
the silence inside, where deep lessons abound.
Amba’s heartfelt poetry, breathtaking color photographs, and, what she calls “teaching questions,” will
guide you to embrace, and complete, the endings in your life and to create a new future —a future that
brings you more fully alive.
About the Author
AWAKENER OF HEART, MEANING, AND JOY IN LIFE, TRANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP COACH,
COMMUNICATION MENTOR, AUTHOR, NATURE PHOTOGRAPHER
Amba Gale is a Master Coach committed to the awakening of consciousness as the source of healing for
our planet. She is reliable for releasing people to their own leadership, borne from their own wisdom,
spirit, and vision. Through her expertise in communication and leadership development, Amba has spent
over four decades working with organizations to create and sustain relationships and instill trust,
creating organizational cultures that allow for the Soul to flourish in business. She is committed to the
principle that the power of a business to thrive is directly correlated to the power of the people in that
organization.
Amba holds a BA with honors in English and an MA in Education from UC Berkeley. She later completed a
business mastery program at Darden College. A relentless pursuit of knowledge and a passion for teaching
have characterized Amba’s journey. As a certified Communication Course Leader for a multinational
corporation, Amba has empowered countless individuals to foster trust and effective communication in
both their personal and professional lives.
As the founder of Gale Leadership Development, Amba has collaborated with a range of organizations, such as Hewlett Packard, Town and Country Markets, Plymouth, Inc, and Pulse Heart Institute, fostering environments in which communication thrives, trust resounds, and partnerships flourish. Her book, Crossing
Thresholds, Island Reflections, which received a Gold Medal Global Award for Nature Poetry in 2019, reflects her talent for blending poetry, photography, and introspection to explore themes of transformation and new beginnings. She is currently writing The Heart of Sacred Listening: The Key to Transforming Your
Relationships, Your Work, and Your Life, to be launched in early 2026.
In addition to her professional accomplishments, Amba finds inspiration in nature. She lives on Bainbridge Island, surrounded by the beauty of Puget Sound. As an avid traveler and passionate storyteller, she enjoys sharing her experiences and insights while cherishing moments with her creative adult daughter and
musician husband.
Amba Gale reliably inspires others to embrace change, transform breakdowns into breakthroughs, live a meaningful and passionate life, and create extraordinary futures, recognizing that every individual has the power to live authentically and with purpose.