{"id":821,"date":"2015-04-11T15:24:24","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T00:24:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=821"},"modified":"2015-04-11T15:24:24","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T00:24:24","slug":"apr-11-the-power-of-listening-well","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=821","title":{"rendered":"Apr 11 – The Power of Listening Well"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I spent two days this week at an education event which had an emphasis on the important of listening as people tell their story.\u00a0 In many stories people choose to tell you can gain insight into the subtext which they have not told.\u00a0 In many cases being able to give voice to these subtext stories can produce the most emotional healing and benefit for the person.\u00a0 So for a chaplain or other care provider to recognize where there is a subtext story and invite the person to discuss it processing the memory can produce emotional healing.<\/p>\n

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One the most stubborn impediments to listening is the fact that many times we are in the process of forming our response before the person we are listening to has completely finished their sentence.\u00a0 Effective listening includes waiting to even form a response until the person who is speaking has finished what they are saying.<\/p>\n

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The event was very helpful to me and I can see that it will assist me in being a better chaplain in the future.\u00a0 The lesson from the event can help anyone be a better listener and have more substantial conversations with those people we meet.\u00a0 Here is a test of how well you listen.\u00a0 The next time you are listening monitor yourself and see if you start to form your response while the person is still speaking.\u00a0 If you do that, then you need to resist the urge to form your response until the person is done speaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I spent two days this week at an education event which had an emphasis on the important of listening as people tell their story.\u00a0 In many stories people choose to tell you can gain insight into the subtext which they have not told.\u00a0 In many cases being able to give voice to these subtext stories … Continue reading Apr 11 – The Power of Listening Well<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=821"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":823,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821\/revisions\/823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}