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Week 10
What is a time in your life that you felt really listened to? What exactly made you feel that way?
Discussion
Quiz
-Clear your desks.
-Eyes on your own paper.
- No talking while quizzes are out.
-Make sure your name is on your quiz!
-Flip your paper over when you're done and put your pen down.
Listening Activity Guidelines
Listening
- Listen with openness: suspend your judgments and biases and listen for those things with which you agree as well as those you might challenge;
- Listen with curiosity: engage your desire to learn, rather than to try to “fix” anything;
- Listen without asking questions that interrupt the speaker: jot down your questions and save them for later;
- Listen for patterns and for what is not being said; and, finally,
- Listen with intention: what do you intend to learn or do with the information you’ll learn?
There are only two rules:
1. Each person must speak once before anyone can speak a second (or third) time.
2. If someone asks a question, someone else must answer it before another comment can
be made.
Pick a topic as a group
Activity
- Step One: Identify a group leader who will make sure the rules are followed.
- Step Two: One person begins by saying something about the topic; the others listen attentively and intentionally.
- Step Three: Another individual asks a follow up question or comments about what s/he heard.
- Repeat Steps Two and Three until everyone has spoken at least twice, or for a specific amount of time.
- Step Four: The group leader, with help from the group, summarizes the conversation and identifies any patterns or insights that emerged and developed.
Before you go..
What surprised you in today's activity? What new or interesting points/ideas did you learn?