Been on a listening course

[JuniperDewdrop]

It was through my church but is suitable for anyone really. It didn't touch on religion at all, just listening. I wanted to do it as I'm interested in home/hospital visiting.
I got a lot out of it and it made me think about conversation. There's a more in depth course coming up so I think I'll go on that one too.

anything more you want to say, i am here

is that the kind of thing?

Juniper why hospital visiting? Acutally what is it?

Fairyfly LOL you are an extrovert we are pretty rubbish at listening just talking with our foot in our mouth mostly!

would love to talk more about conversation Juniper when I feel better from my cold

enjoy the next course

Hi all, tbh it was all a lot of common sense really but it made me think about 'listening' more. This was a very short course which only lasted 1 hour 15 mins but the next one is a day's course. A friend from Church did a Relate one for 3 full days. I don't know if you get any sort of qualification with this one but I'd love to do it.

any more details on the sort of stuff you did? this sounds really interesting (tho spose if I am that interested I should find a course myself LOL)

Hi MS, the lady who took the course was pointing out the obvious I suppose but it made people re evaluate the way they talk to others.
Some of the things mentioned were giving open questions. Rather than one word etc.. Also repeating what you've heard. So if they say they feel bad you say 'bad?' and that usually gets them to explain/talk more. There's a lot more to it but it's all relatively simple. If you're interested I could find out if there's anything in your area?

btw there was an exercise where we got into couples of people we didnt know and one half went out of the room. The one's who left were told to come back in and talk about their last holiday and we were to ignore them as much as possible. I was very good at it apparently though I did find it hard

Did a listening course at church a few years ago. Never realised how much we interrupt peoples conversations before! found it really usefull. hopefully i've been able to use it in my job(nurse). I think we planned a counselling team at church when the course came up but it never happened. Also done a couple of courses at work on "Loss and Breavement" which were excellent.