2/12

In the movie clip today, it showed many great forms of listening. They had a talking stick which made it hard to blurt out an opinion. Also, it forced them to listen to each other in a certain way. Today, we participated in a lot of role plays. The first role play was about a dog barking at night. During this role play, I was annoyed with by neighbor and I wanted to let him know how I was feel. Even though we were both empathically listening, I felt as if we did not get anything accomplished. Neither one of us wanted to compromise, and so we just repeated what each other had to say without any emotion. However, the second role play I put more emotion in solving the problem. I really tried to understand how the other person in the situation was feeling. This time we got more accomplished, and I could feel that the trust in the relationship also grew. This will make is easiler next time to talk to that person. It was very effective to participate today in class. The small role plays are very good for learning and growing.