Today was yet another day to practice empathic listening. This time, of course, we applied it to relationships. We went from bad first dates to how to make friends with your mother-in-law. Also one key priciple we learned is how to go back to an old conversation, and how in doing so we can apologize for mistakes we have made in the past.
I've already had the opportunity in my life to apply this. It's a bit of a personal story, so I won't go into details, but I was able to contact an old friend I had offended months ago, and apologize, saving the friendship and at least seemiingly removing all hard feelings, I then taught him how I learned this in my communications class, "rewinding" to an old conversation, and he was very excited to use it in his own life to resolve a few different conflicts he was having in a few of his relationships, especially that of his fiance.
Thursday, February 15, 2007
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