Active Listening Workshop Activities

Rollenspiel-Übung zum Aktiven Zuhören

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Die Teilnehmer gehen zu zweit zusammen und üben das Aktive Zuhören anhand eines Rollenspiels.

Dabei geht jeweils eine Person mit der Rolle „A“ und eine Person mit Rolle „B“ zusammen.
Das Gespräch wird geführt, wobei der jeweilige Zuhörer jeweils unterbrechen kann, um das Gehörte zusammenzufassen. Der Gesprächspartner gibt unmittelbar Feedback, ob dies stimmig war.

Anschließend läuft das Gespräch weiter.

Kurze Rückmeldung zur Übung im Plenum.

Gibberish Dictionary

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Values from Stories

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Word association pass

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words are passed like gifts in the group

Widen the Lens

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justification game to expand context

Relationship Sculpture

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One person sculpts 2 people in relationship. Sculpted people shift their relationship to each other.

Story of Your Name

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Kontrollierter ABC-Dialog

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Yes And Incubator

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One idea enters the circle. The group builds it together, one sentence at a time. Every statement begins with "Yes, and..."

Hybrid rounds

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If you want everyone in the group to have a say, but are in a hybrid setting, with people joining both online and in-person, how can you set up a talking round? Here are some ideas!

You! Patterns

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Establish pattern to pass in a circle. Create a category that each person has a contribution (ie. breakfast cereals). Add another category.

Back-to-back listening

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Practice deeper listening and empathy by experiencing the same stimulus from two perspectives. Partners sit back-to-back and first listen individually to a short piece of music, noticing their internal experience through body, emotions, and thoughts.

They then describe their experience to each other in detail before listening again — this time through the lens of their partner’s description. By shifting from “my experience” to “your experience,” participants practice perspective-taking, empathy, and disciplined attention.

This simple structure builds the micro-behaviors that strengthen understanding, improve collaboration, and enhance the quality of insight gathered from others.