Listening

I tried the listening skills that we were taught in class with a lot of people but one that really stood out was a girl that is in my ceramics class. She was telling everyone at our table in the class how she has had a rotten day. She said all the things that went wrong and then some of the other girls at the table went off on tangents from what she said about their own lives. I turned it back to her and asked how that made her feel and said back to her what I understood she had said and I could tell that she then liked telling me more and actually felt better even though it didn't directly solve her problems. It was awesome and I am going to use it more to truly listen to people.
Karen Ungricht