Posts Tagged ‘empathic’
Talk about a time when you have had an experience of having a conversation that evolved to an empathetic or generative level, what effect did it have on you?
In an earlier post I talked about a conversation I had with my girlfriend…To recap I unfortunately decided to answer her question of “what do you think of my design work?” (she is studing video post production) with a very attentive style of communication when what she really wanted was reassurance which means I should have listened and offered some positive affirmations about the work “It looks great, I understand what your trying to do with that design”.
After a bit of an argument (downloading) we started to talk on the same level and started talking about the work with some constructive criticism which soon turn into an empathic conversation where I was able to understand her better and how she was feeling about her design work and we actually ended up spending the next couple of hours talking to each other about our future plan and visions once we had finished our study. At this more generative level of communication with her we were able to talk openly and a lot of ideas for the future of our lives flowed freely which was not only a great feeling personally but we were both able to get a lot done as we held out on putting any brakes on our conversation. A very positive outcome.
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