The core of the Empathy Circle is Empathic Listening, also called active listening or reflective listening.
Different forms of listening
"Empathic listening (also called active listening or reflective listening) is a way of listening and responding to another person that improves mutual understanding and trust."
Empathic listening places the focus on feeling into the visceral felt experience of self, others and the relationship.
Reflective listening -" is a communication strategy involving two key steps: seeking to understand a speaker's idea, then offering the idea back to the speaker, to confirm the idea has been understood correctly. It attempts to "reconstruct what the client is thinking and feeling and to relay this understanding back to the client""
Active listening - "a communication technique used in counseling, training, and conflict resolution. It requires that the listener fully concentrate, understand, respond and then remember what is being said. This is opposed to reflective listening where the listener repeats back to the speaker what they have just heard to confirm understanding of both parties."
Dialogic listening - "is an alternative to active listening which was developed by John Stewart and Milt Thomas. ...Thus dialogic listening means learning through conversation. Dialogic listening is also known as ‘relational listening’ because with the help of exchange of ideas while listening, we also indirectly create a relation."
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Aspects
Reflecting word for word
Summarizing
Paraphrasing
Conveying meaning in own words.
Identifying and naming feelings
Identifying and naming needs or feelings that are desired.
Other Links
Empathy Movement Home Active Listening
Active listening - wikipedia.
"Active listening is a communication technique used in counseling, training, and conflict resolution. It requires that the listener fully concentrate, understand, respond and then remember what is being said.[1]
This is opposed to reflective listening where the listener repeats back to the speaker what they have just heard to confirm understanding of both parties."