Storytelling

4 Steps for Effective Listening

1. Active Listening

• Listening is an active process that requires your participation

2. Listening with Empathy

• Simply knowing that everyone is trying to survive
• “This is hard to hear, but it’s another human being trying to live.”

3. Listening with Openness

• Hear the whole statement, the entire communication before judging.

4. Listening with Awareness

• Compare what is being said to your own knowledge of history, people, and the way things are
• Without judgment, simply making note of how a communication fits with known facts
• Hear and observe congruenceDoes the person’s tone of voice, emphasis, facial expression and posture fit the content of his/her communication? If not you’re getting an incomplete message
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Choose at least one of the following to do and practice effective listening

Exchange stories!

• Answer these prompts: favorite childhood memory, Ratatouille moment, most embarrassing moment, first heartbreak, last time you cried
• Family Sculpture Project

• Cooking time

  • Come up with a dish you would like to recreate (preferably one with easily accessible ingredients and materials)

  • Gather and send out a list of ingredients and materials needed

  • Start your cooking!

  • As you eat, share:

    • Memories the food brings up, how it may be different than how it was growing up, the role food played in your family and community

• Watch a documentary, movie, or tv show

  • Abominable

  • Always Be My Maybe

  • Avatar: The Last Airbender

  • Bao (Short Film)

  • Crazy Rich Asians

  • The Half of It

  • Jackie Chan Adventures

  • Joy Luck Club

  • Linsanity

  • Never Have I Ever

• What parts of the story resonated with you?

• What was something new you learned?

• What is the history behind ________?

• What challenges were faced in the stories shared?

• What did you value/appreciate about a person’s story?

• Active listening

• Empathy by Brené Brown