Lessons: Miller

This is a 3 Lesson workshop that William (Bill) Miller held in an adult school titled "Listening Across Canyons." Bill told me I can use this outline for our work. The workshop is geared towards preparing participants to have empathic dialogues across the political divide.

Listening Across Canyons

by William Miller

SESSION 1

• Empathy

• The Skill of Accurate Empathy

• Three Disciplines of Accurate Empathy

  • Discipline 1: Focusing. Full attention. No agenda except for understanding

  • Discipline 2: Refraining from Roadblocks

    • Twelve Roadblocks that are Not Listening

  • Discipline 3: Mirroring

SESSION 2

• The Skill of Reflective Listening

• Forming a Reflection

• Simple and Complex Reflections

• Experience Forming Reflections

• How is Reflective Listening Different from Conversation?

• Take-Home

SESSION 3

• Three Disciplines of Reflective Listening

• Listening Across Political Differences

• Take-Home