ON ARRIVAL QUESTION:
How do you think reflective listening compares to our everyday conversation?
Edwin
Everyday conversation:
Each person will experience it differently.
Can be competitive, full of empathy blocks. Each of these blocks may have visceral feelings of discomfort for the listeners and speakers.
Most extroverted person may get the most attention.
Reflective listening:
Each person will experience it differently.
For the speaker, they may feel more deeply heard, without the stress of competition.
Can have more positive feelings, of openness, creativity, etc.
Thinking about this question, a more effective question maybe:
How do you personally experience the difference of reflective listening as compared to everyday conversation in your life?
How do you feel reflective listening compares to everyday conversation in your personal experience?
Bill
Reflective listening focuses on the art of understanding what the speaker is saying in the deepest possible way. Everyday conversation has a number of possible objectives. From my reading of the chapter and my experience, reflective listening enriches my everyday conversation, and makes me a more effective communicator. I find this to be so because experiencing what the other person is feeling gives me insight as to what I say and how I say it will be received.
Peter
Reflective listening for me is my entering the place where I focus on letting go of all the other things I hold onto in my mind so that I can really focus in on what the person is saying. Focus is the difference for me, in exactly what is said, and making sure I don’t make of it what I want.
Cielja
Focus is the thing for me.. Shifting focusing from yourself to others and back again.
In everyday conversation I let it go. I use you messages..
I’m happy EL is a skill with me.
For example. I started defending