Topic: Socializing and Active Listening
Aims
- To raise awareness of the importance of active listening skills, and some situations where they are especially important;
- To teach some language techniques for active listening, including effective use of body language;
- To provide practice and feedback of the situation of active listening to a friend or colleague talking about a difficult experience.
Introduction
Perhaps the most important skill in socializing is to 'shut up and listen'. In practice, it can be very difficult to resist the temptation to turn every conversation into a conversation about what we consider the most interesting thing in the world, i. e, ourselves. The most skillful active listeners include nurses, social workers, psychotherapists and counselors, so this lesson focuses on the techniques studied and used by these professionals.
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