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PFI 1305: Life, Love & Money: Assignment 2 Part 2 (A2P2) Practicing Empathic Communication Steps to completing the exercise: 1. Identify ONE person you know and can ideally visit with in person within the next few days. 2. Meet with this person and deliberately concentrate on practicing your empathic communication skills: a. LISTEN carefully with intent to understand, use the whole body listening technique. Attend to words, tone, and body language. b. PAUSE to formulate your response before speaking replying to the other person. c. RESPOND through a combination of cognitive (rephrasing or mirroring) and affective (reflection) techniques. 3. Meeting Record: Immediately after your visit with this person, record in detail: a. Identify person and the nature and status of your relationship b. What you specifically did to listen with your whole body c. The alignment of the words, tone and body language of the other person d. The cognitive technique(s) you used (rephrase, mirror, both) e. The cues you received from the other person’s words/tone/body language that aided in your reflection with that person. f. The response you perceived from the other person from employing empathic communication. 4. Reflection: a. Describe how this listening experience differs (or not) from how you usually listen to people (i.e., discuss what tendencies you may have: autobiographical responses, probing, evaluating, advising/fixing, interpreting, judging, being inattentive, etc. and how empathic listening differs from these tendencies) b. Reflect on how you found this experience (you may include prompts from below to aid in your discussion). i. Was it difficult or awkward? Easy or comfortable? ii. Did you find it helpful…or not? iii. Did you learn anything new from this experience? c. Did you get any cues from the other person that would indicate that you made a genuine connection with this person? i. If yes, describe. ii. If no, why do you think this might be the case?

Please use the template on the next page to record your answers to the steps for this exercise.

MEETING RECORD: Identify person and nature/status of your relationship

Cody Carson, roommate and best friend.

Describe listening with your whole body:

By listening with ones body it is to pay attention to what they are doing with their body, he seems rather calm anytime he speaks with me which I expect since we are such good friends, he fiddles with his hands, but when talking about his girlfriend he is waves his hands around and paces about the living room.

Describe the degree to which the words, tone, and body language were aligned

While listening with all parts I came to the conclusion that he worries about his relationship with his girlfriend since thay are in the attachment phase still. He seems as if all he seeks is comfort that everything will be okay with them, even though they fight about pointless stuff. All he seeks is closure so that he can feel good within himself.

Describe your response process(techniques used, cues from words, tone, body language)

I gave him the closure that he was looking for and told him that they are both just extremely dramatic and each need to just sit down and talk it out I used body language while talking to him by waving my hand around when I told him that he’s just over reacting, I stated what he did as to why they were fighting and proceeded to ask him if it sound like something that is logical to get into an argument about.

Describe how the other person responded to you

He said, “How stupid of me to argue about something so dumb, I’m going to call her right now”. He proceeded to call her so I took my leave into, my room so I didn’t have to listen to the constant bickering of the two, afterwards he told me that everything was okay, and thanked me for the support.

REFLECTION: How did this experience differ from how you usually listen to other people? (Identify and include your tendencies and how this differs from empathic listening)

Describe how you found this experience (See prompts in the steps if you need guidance here)

Assess whether you made a meaningful connection with this other person (What clues did you get from the other person to inform your assessment?)

To be quite honest with you it didn’t differ all that much opposed to other times we have conversations on similar topics to this one. I have usually always listened with my body and actually understanding what the other person is saying as opposed to using empathic listening. I feel the same as I do in other conversations since I have practiced listening with more than my ears and have learned to put myself in others shoes while speaking to others when they seek for my input.

I feel that I did make a meaningful connection with Cody since he actually took my advice, as he doesn’t always, and it put him in a much better mood that of which he was in while speaking to me about his personal problems. He also thanked me for my input and that he really appreciates the advice that I gave him to help him better understand which a pretty big thing is since he can be bitter sometimes....