Mindful Missions Challenge
Your mission:
Today we will practice an act of active listening. Ask someone to spend a minute telling you about their favorite vacation. Afterwards, repeat the story back to them as though it happened to you. Notice how you listened differently.
Why?
Part of being an ally is being empathetic, compassionate, and authentically listening to other's experiences. By paying close attention and re-summarizing someone's experience back to them, we learn a helpful strategy that addresses all three of these characteristics.