Motivation

📺 Watch the video below to learn what Listening is as a day-to-day skill.

Discuss

❓ Take a moment to reflect on your experience of Listening.
1- Recall and describe a time when you felt truly heard in a conversation. How did it feel?
OR
2 - Think of a time when you listened well to someone else. What did you observe about the conversation and the results?

📺 Watch the following video on why we are losing our ability to listen and how we can counteract this loss.

As mentioned in the video, listening is a mental process of extraction, which uses a couple of interesting techniques, including:

• Pattern Recognition
• Differencing
• Filters that determine what we pay attention to. For example:
  • Culture
  • Language
  • Values
  • Beliefs
  • Attitudes
  • Expectations
  • Intentions

The video also talked about these 5 exercises and tools to improve listening:

• Exercise 1: Silence. Practice silence for just 3 minutes a day to reset your ears.
• Exercise 2: Mixer. When you are in a place filled with noise, try to notice and focus on the individual channels of sound. (Note: A great way to practice this exercise is to listen to music with headphones on and see if you can focus on different layers in a song).
• Exercise 3: Savoring. Listen to and savor the mundane sounds in your daily life (e.g., clocks ticking, traffic noise, household electronics).
• Exercise 4: Listening Positions. Consciously play with your listening filters to change the way you are listening.
• Exercise 5: RASA. Receive, Appreciate, Summarize, Ask.

Discuss

❓ Reflect on the content from the video by answering the questions in the padlet below.