Chapter 09

It takes two to speak the truth - one to speak and another to hear.

― Henry David Thoreau

9. Diving Deeper

Reading Time: 10 min

Open Empathy MOOC: Chp 09

On Arrival: *C09 Challenges:

What struggles or challenges do you have with empathic listening and what would you like to improve?

Tool Kit Exercise: *09 Reflection 2:

Chapter Summary

• Simple reflection

• Complex reflection -adding guess of feeling or meaning

* Accurate Empathy and Reflective Listening

• reflective listening - a skill

• empathic understanding - way of being

• accurate empathy - way of being

* Fine Tuning: Choosing Your Words

• Understating and Overstating

• Analogies

• The Music

  • feeling lays that may be added

  • sympathy

  • mistrust

  • sarcasm

  • disgust

Try It!

• practice empathic listening in the group. As topics ask these personal questions.

Questions

• Describe each of your parents and your relationship with them when you were growing up?

• Explain how you became interested and involved in the work that you are doing now?

• Talk about a favorite person who had a particularity important impact on your life. What was that person like, and what positive effect(s) did they have on you?