Deep listening: Finding common ground with opponents
, deep listening can also enable the speaker to feel safer, less defensive and therefore more open to seeing both sides of an argument.He recalls using it in the 1990s with 40 non-political leaders from Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities."With deep listening, they were able to hear that each person in the room had suffered at the hands of the other," he says.
While researching the technique's effectiveness, academics from the University of Jerusalem read an article about a controversial subject to a group of undergraduates. The BBC Crossing Divides season has recruited 250 people from across the UK to be trained in deep listening before being paired with someone with strongly opposing views. BBC News will report on process throughout the day.Person A: It's horrendous to eat meat nowadays. Look at our precious planet - all these hamburgers are causing our carbon emissions to skyrocket. It's a nightmare.
B: So, for you, your outrage about meat-eating is not just about the environment, you also feel passionately about animal welfare. You believe animals deserve similar rights to people? Did I miss anything?Psychologist Carl Rogers, who pioneered this listening approach, in the 1950s, said listening authentically conveyed the idea of being interested in someone as an individual and thinking their feelings were important.
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