Blocks to Active Listening
Allowing your attention to wander to other events or people. You stop listening and drift away into your own fantasies.
Daydreaming.
You restate in your own words, what you think the other person is saying. Using words like "in other words" "what I'm hearing is"
Paraphrasing
Jeremy
What big sport event is happening right now
March Madness
Who has the most tattoos
Alexa AND Kendra
When you are busy thinking about what you are going to say next, so you never hear what the person is truly telling you.
Rehearsing
You restate what the person has said but you add in what the speaker is feeling.
Reflection of Feelings
Who reads the most books
Payge
What Major League started this month
Bonus points: What country did it start in
Baseball
Japan
Who is always the best dressed
Keri
When you listen to certain parts of a conversation but not all
Filtering
You tell the other person what you thought you heard and learn whether you were right or wrong, and asking questions.
Clarification
Who is not from South Dakota
Alexis
What state had a massive storm that several counties are still without power
Iowa
Who drinks the most expensive coffee
Jeremy
When you have stopped listening to the other person because you have already placed a label, assumed something or stereotyped.
Judging
Showing you're listening through actions that conveys that you're interested in what the other is saying.
Body Language
Who has two girls
Keri
What is the happiest country in the World
Finland
Who ran country for college
Liam
When your attention is divided by something internal to you, (headache, worry, or hunger,) or external to you, (traffic, whispering, others talking.)
Distractions
Were you listening to the leader going over all this information in the beginning? What is one thing I love to listen to in the morning.
Second Date Update.
Who has a husband is who deaf
Alexis AND Keri
What Country has 70% of the worlds tropic glaciers
Peru
Who is the best at trivia
Paj
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