Sound and Motion
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Active Listening Workshop Activities
Active listening exercises to help improve your team's active listening skills and approach workshops and meetings with consideration and care. Improve interpersonal communication skills and raise empathy with active listening games and methods.
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Back-to-back listening
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.
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