February 23, 2007- Role Play

February 23, 2007

I'm so excited we are going places in the role play. I feel like all our wrong approaches and previous attempts are finally starting to make since. From the role play I learned:

1. Establish a relationship of trust
2. Throw away your personal agenda
3. Take time, things like this don't come out all at once
4. Listen empathically! It solves almost all problems in communicating
5. Set aside your emotions and feelings to better understand the feelings of others
6. Don't be thrown off by attempts to get off on a less important topic
7. Practice empathic listening, the more you practice the better you become

Its really nice to finally figure out the key to unlocking important and sometimes complicated information. I have found that what I have learned in the role play has helped me so many times in my communications with others. It has completley altered the way I communicate for the better.