What questions do you have about the Speaker Role?
William Filler
Cutting people off -
How to set time. ?
Zak Wear
What are the speaker’s responsibilities?
How could a tongue-tied speaker be encouraged to share?
There are blocks for listeners, are there blocks for speakers?
Toby Yesterday
I haven’t thought of any questions I have about this.
Except maybe one, but it is more about the dynamic between speaker and listener and timekeeping. How can we prioritize the speaker actually being heard despite time guidelines?
For example, if someone is having a hard time reflecting because they don’t really understand the speaker or have a lot of filters on what the speaker is saying - that takes time away from the speaker.
So how can we have justice for the speaker in terms of being allowed/supported in sharing AND being understood for a comparable amount of content?
EG, this happened once in a call when someone had shared something and the listener wasn’t really getting it, the speaker did not feel heard, but the facilitator said we need to move on due to time. Leaving the speaker feeling kind of abandoned, I think.
So, do we want to:
A) move on from speaker to speaker exactly at the time mark regardless of if they feel heard, or
B) give the speaker a certain amount of time to share, but then not move on until they say that they feel heard
I personally prefer B, as I think it defeats the purpose of the empathy circle if people are moved on from when they don’t feel heard. Can be potentially traumatizing or at least very frustrating to offer one’s presence and understanding and then not have reciprocity
Don’t people feel pressured to say “I feel heard” even if they don’t, due to the time constraint?
Edwin Rutsch
How might I feel more deeply heard?
How might I speak more from my felt experience?
How might I speak in a way that it makes it easy for me to be heard and understood?
Evan Magor
How can I capture the essence of what I
Susan Campbell
should facilitator urge speaker to speak in a way that is designed to create empathy in listener?
Sam Kifer
How can I engage the listener when I speak?
How can I speak up when there is likely to be disagreements or conflict?
How can I speak more succinctly?
How can I speak more authentically?
How can I speak more for how I am feeling in the moment?