Steven

Empathic Listening Feedback: Steven Morrison

2014-08-08

What happens on a large scale when we

teach people these kinds of things?

I hope people really take advantage of

the Free Empathy.

My final thought is, Keep On Going!

Interested in doing Listening ( no)

* entrepreneur getting own business up and running

* It would be interesting to do it to practice.

Interested in doing Empathy Circles? ( )

This is a debrief on how the empathic listening worked for you.

How was the listening experience?

How was the overall experience, of getting the flyer, etc?

It’s nice. I mean for me and the kind of work I’m doing… if I see sign that says, Free Empathy, even if I don’t ever go near it, I am just loving that that is going on. People are doing that, thinking about it and practicing, what might be called active listening or whatever we call it… empathy, compassion.. To me these are all different words for essentially the same thing.

We are doing this at the HUB. I’m wondering how that is for you?

I’m really interested in how that goes. I want to talk with you in a month from now, and see what the experience is like;

I hope people really take advantage of the Free Empathy.

[Impact of Listening]

And beyond that I'd really love to see 3 months from now, 6 months from now, seeing how people’s experience of being heard extrapolates to life. That is really the impact part. So it’s one thing to sit with somebody, like you've done with me, and listen very beautify to what I have been saying, but I’d be curious to know in a place like this what the impact of it is. I’m interested in the exact same thing on a large scale. What happens on a large scale when we teach people these kinds of things?

You’re a good listener and I’m not used to finding good listeners.

What could be improved in this process?

Flyers seemed good. Maybe the flyer could be reduced to the size of a business card. That’s a little detail..

The word that came to mind Edwin, when you just asked me that, was continuity. I’d love to see something maybe build in where you invite people, and they say, “I’ll do this 3 times a week. Or once a week for 4 weeks. “ Just to see what the impact is. It’s the impact question. What is the ultimate impact. But some degree of… I’m a marketing research guy…. One of my previous careers, almost some sort of …. A baseline of here is where people are today, we've been doing this for a month, 3 months, 6 months, and now look what is happening. Hear what they are saying as a result of being heard and receiving empathy.

What is going on with them today on day one, and then what happens a certain amount of time.. I’m starting to talk about a gigantic study, which is probably not where you are headed. But you could even do what I’m talking about rather informally.

[get funding for a family empathy circle study and see what the effects are of doing empathic listening circles in family environment]

At the end of the session, would you come back for another one, are you interested in coming back next week. A regularity of listening. Sign up for a date and time for another empathic listening. Because anything that for you, now I’m just spewing, that being able to talk with people. This is what happens, people come 3, 5, 6, 8 times they start to have a different experience of themselves and their life and their work. They feel better.

Could be a testimonial of this kind of work? yeah, as you develop a culture of empathy, for you to be able to say to people, “Here is what we know”. Some kind of continuity would be an interesting component.

People at Impact HUB have this opportunity for free empathy on a regular basis, and as a result on the whole the group is feeling, thinking, being, doing, X,Y, Z.

This bleeds into the work I do, the business aspect of this. I just shot a testimonial video of people coming to my class….and impacting them as entrepreneurs. It helps me to learn about the impact of the work I’m doing.

Different groups might be effected differently,, entrepreneurs,… etc

Would you want to be a listener here at the HUB? Why or why not?

I’m going to say no, only because it is what I already do. As and entrepreneur I’ve just very focused on getting my own .. selfishly getting my own business up and running,. for me to personally do that for a while would take me away from my own focus.

It would be interesting to do it to practice. To become better. But like I say, I’m not saying I’m the best in the world. But if I’m not fairly good at it, then I have no business any. I’ve been doing this kind of work for more than 20 years. For me personally there is nothing.. it wouldn’t add to my experience.

We were relatively private here, how would you feel if there were more people close by or around?

There can be tons of people and you can feel like you’re having a private conversation. It’s just case specific. If they are right next to us, then may have felt inhibited.

Any final thoughts?

My final thought is, Keep On Going!

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[Idea: have empathic listening practice group. It’s learning and growing in being a better listener by getting feedback.]

[Idea: Empathy circle for entrepreneurs, corporate workers, social workers, etc.]

[Idea: Would you invite 1 friend, and or listen to one person, or do a empathy circle training.]