Empathic listening might involve guessing at a person’s underlying feelings and tentatively reflecting those feelings back. Since our emotional vocabulary might be limited to Seseme Street feelings, I provide students with lists of emotions and ask them to identify the feelings they have had in the last day, week, or month.
After the students learn and roleplay responding with empathy, I pull troubling statements out of a bag and go around the circle, asking each student to respond to a different statement. These are all real statements that people have said to me.
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