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Empathic Listening is a learned art that does not come naturally. When you listen empathically, it helps cure those in need.
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Listening to Cureby
Benita Arceneaux
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Empathic Approach:
Listening First Aid
Research by Gregorio Billikopf Encina
University of California
Listening to Cure
Talking is Therapeutic – Empathic Approach to Listening
How Empathic Listeners Helps Those in Need
Listening to Cure
Talking is Therapeutic – Empathic Approach to Listening
Empathic listening: Putting oneself in position to understand another
Attending to another so the individual feels heard in a non-judgmental way
Accompany a person in their moment of sadness, anguish, self-discovery, or challenge
Listening to Cure Talking is Therapeutic – Empathic
Approach to Listening
Panama Canal vs. The Human Mind
Listening to Cure
Panama Canal vs. The Human Mind
They Both have the build up of water or pressure, at different levels, that remain behind closed locks.
If one were to open these locked gates, a great flow would occur that would most likely be unidirectional.
Listening to Cure
Panama Canal vs. The Human Mind
Your Role as an Empathic Listener is to Allow the individual to open the locked gates!
So Many Emotions!
Anger or Interpersonal
Conflict
Stress or Deep Emotional Wounds …
Frustration..
Other Negative Feelings…
Open The Locked Gates!
Listening to Cure
Talking is Therapeutic – Empathic Approach to Listening
How Empathic Listeners Help Those in Need
Listening to Cure
An Empathic Listener Helps By: Attentive Listening Asking Effective Diagnositic
Questions Offering a Prescription or Solution
Listening to Cure
An Empathic Listener Has to be Careful not to:
Lose patience and quickly offer a solution
State The Obvious
Steal The Show by Telling Our Own Stories Interrupt the Troubled Person
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In the words of Alfred Benjamin-Butts:
“Genuine listening is hard work; there is little about it that is mechanical… We hear with our ears, but we listen with our eyes and mind and heart and skin and guts as well.”
Let us endeavor to listen empathically with our hearts, to help cure those in
need.
