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Positive Attitudes "Not until you have learned to choose your attitudes will you really have the power and freedom to be your own person, capable of determining and achieving your goals and dreams." Adventures in Attitudes© is an empowering program designed to help people understand that how they perceive and respond to events around them is their choice. This awareness is the first step in changing negative attitudes to positive ones. It is key to establishing personal responsibility and accountability in the midst of change. And it helps turn passive resistance into high-energy performance. ©Inscape Publishing [back] |
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 Give empathic understanding - Listeners attempt to be sensitive and empathic to what is going on with talkers.
 Provide unconditional acceptance - Listener's accept talkers unconditionally as important people
 Be genuine and authentic - Listener's are real , honest , tactful and authentic the care about talkers.
 Give specific responses - Listener's respond with straight messages rather than indirect messages by being specific with their answers.
 Be non-judgmental - Listener's let talkers explore their feelings without any value judgments or criticism . Remember that feelings are neither right nor wrong, they just are feelings.
 Stay in the talkers emotional space - Listeners concentrate on what talkers are saying, thinking, and feeling rather than responding with listener's feelings and thoughts.
 Avoid rescuing - Listeners allow talkers to have pain, confusion, sadness and anger as part of their learning. Listeners nurture and support without bleeding with talkers. Listeners believe that people can solve their own problems if given a chance to talk in a non-threatening situation.
 Ask open ended questions - Listeners avoid "why" questions.
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