Listening is so hard and exhausting. I went to a face to face meeting yesterday which felt good and weird at the same time. When I arrived a noticed some anxiety and once the meeting opened it was clear there was a LOT to say. So, I chose to listen. For over an hour I encouraged, acknowledged and focussed all of my attention on the people I met with. What I also had to keep doing was acknowledging and putting aside (for now) my feelings of 'this is not what we said we were discussing' and 'when are we going to talk about what I want to talk about'. I decided that what was needed was the thing that can be the hardest, to let others thoughts and feelings be heard. How do you help others be heard?

Posted by PhilWillcox at 2021-06-24 08:48:16 UTC