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Different forms of Role Play
Emotions never die, they are burried alive and come forth later in uglier ways

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We can use role play if we ever get in a position of future management to test our customer service line

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Express your emotions, dont let them sit around. Or else you can expect some mad crazy night of the living dead experience.

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Mason has been harboring some ugly emotions, but he needs to express them and let them out.
Or else i might find myself slain in the night.

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We are working on good things here in class, however it seems like weve been working on almost the exact same items the entire semester thus far. Which is cool. It just strikes me a little funny that we still havnt finished the role play yet. egad...

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• The Maturity Continueum
• Naps during class

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1. The maturity continueum helps to explain how different people react and engage in different relationships.
2. Its also a good guide for preparing somebody for marriage, it helps them know if they are mature enough to take care of themselves
3. Sometimes we can take power naps during class if its absolutley necessary

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Next time i find myself absolutley exausted im taking a nap during class. just for a few minutes

Teach

Mason thought it was awesome that we could take naps during class. Or just get up and leave to do something. Good call

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The maturity Continueum is a good thing to become familiar with, even if your not too sure how to spell continueum. Its a difficult word.

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• The difference between killing someone and not killing them
• More on Empathic Listening

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1. Empathic listening is taking someone elses energy and useing it
2. Empathic listening can help make people speechless. because it mirrors what they are saying.
3. If you are getting old you can use brutal killing moves to defend yourself

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I used wang chung on my roomate today.

Teach

You can control yourself and your antagonist by controling your energy and refocusing his. By flowing like water.

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Its nice to know that there is a martial arts style that teaches you how to instantly kill your opponent. what a happy world we live in. lets just kill everyone before we get into any conflict.

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• Things to study for the test
• The 5 Cancerous Feelings

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1. The five Cancerous feelings can be devestating to your relationships
2. If your not careful someone might think poorly of you if you exhibit a Cancerous Feeling
3. People will probably try to use better emotions if they are educated about it, dont be so hard on people who show cancerous signs, just help them see what they should be doing.

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Next time i see myself complaining ill stop myself.

Teach

Mason recognised the Cancerous emotions, they are something that shouldnt be trifled with he said. He thought it was a good idea to try and supress them and to use more mature methods of venting frustration.

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Its important to think about what you think about. so that you can catch yourself before you say something or act embarassing. Look before you Leap.

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• More on Empathic Learning

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1. Empathic Learning is good to use.
2. Empathic Learning is a good idea.
3. Empathic Learning works well if you invest some emotion with it

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Its good to just keep these sorts of things in mind when someone is talking to you, it helps you stay focussed on them.

Teach

Ive taught Mason so much about Empathic listening that hes almost a pro with it now

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Empathic Listening can be a powerful tool if you know what your doing. I keep getting the impression that what were doing in class is more or less just an emotional version of Active Listening. Which to me, doesnt seem like it would be that effective. Empathic Listening should have more emotional investment, the person you are listening to should know that you honest to goodness are listening because your responding realistically. To be honest im not sure that 100% pure Empathic Listening has any use, because to me it doesnt get anywhere. If your in a relationship where there isnt enough trust for you to be able to ask even any small questions, then your probably not the right person to be talking to. Questions can be necessary.

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• The Viscious and Virtuous Cycle
• What Remember means

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1. Remember actually means Renew your membership to something. Like reassociating yourself with a memory.
2. The Virtuous Cycle skips the consequences that take place through pride
3. The Viscious Cycle takes place without ever experienceing humility

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• Its easy enough to catch yourself and recognise most blessings, just make sure you can stay humble and grateful about it

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I taught mason about it and he thought it was interesting that the "Viscious Cycle" had a positive counterpart the "Virtuous Cycle"

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Seeing the word Remember a different way was really interesting to me. It added a slightly different feel about the way i remember things now.

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• The impact that searching for positive things makes on a person.

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1. People respond better when you point out positive things they have done
2. Use words like "And" instead of "but" so that it doesnt push aside the things youve said
3. Pointing out negative things reminds people that they are a failure, which can be a burden.

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• Someday when little kids come my way ill praise them about the positive things they do rather then pointing out the negative things

Teach

I told Eliot my neighbor about how using "And" instead of "But" can have a more positive impact on a conversation because it doesnt push aside the the points that you made earlier. Its a helpful habit to get accustomed to

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I had a conversation yesterday with a friend of mine, she said that a man actually went as far as to name two of his kids "winner" and "loser" as an experiment. As absolutely bizzare as it sounds the kid named Winner acutaully went on to be convicted of a number high crimes and is now serving time in prison. Where as the kid named Loser goes by the name "Lou" and has become a succseful business man. Very very curious.

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• How pysical symptoms of the body can affect communication
• More on Empathic Listening
• Personal Agendas when it comes to cheering people up

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1. Its important to realise that what were going through phsyically can impact our ability to communicate well. Lack of sleep - Lack of food - Lack of friends etc...
2. Next time i get in a situation when somebody is emotional distraught, and i can practice empathic listening and "mourn with those that mourn."
3. My own personal agendas can get in the way of what is really important, which is helping someone over come a specific trial.

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Make an effort to hunt out my own personal agendas and be more aware of them so that i can catch them when they come up. Making it easier for me to push my agendas to the back and focus on the person im listening to.

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Mason - Dorm - 2:00

I taught mason that the pysical body definently makes a difference in how capable you are in communicating. He promptly informed me that he wasnt born yesterday.

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Class was good today, Thomas is an actor. Its important to put into practice a lot of the things we learned today, specifically Empathic Listening, because of its potential to make a serious difference in our relationships.

Jan/22/07

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• Active Listening
• Empathic Listening
• Unconcious Competence and Concious Competence Etc...
• More on Agendas
• AutoBiographical Comments

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1. Empathic Listening can be a much more effective form of listening
2. People can act weird if they are Conciously Competent
3. Its important to avoid Autobiographical Comments

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• When people get intense you need to put in some emotional effort to try and understand where they are coming from. Its possible to communicate on a very basic level by simply sensing the emotion of a person.

Teach: Mason, In the Dorm, 10:10 am

I told mason about the idea that many of us knew each other in the pre-exsistence, and that when we "re-meet" here on earth, we still have relationships and impressions of each other that we can remember and respond to. Its important to listen to the subtle quirks people will send you, often times you will understand their personality that way.

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Ive specifically noticed that sometimes i use selective hearing, and that i will think of stories to tell sometimes when im in a conversation with someone. Next time i catch myself doing this im going to choose to switch into Active or Empathic listening, depending on the situation.

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• The different levels of listening : Ignore - Pretend - Selective - Active - Empathise

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1. Every time you are in a conversation there are different ways to listen to people
2. If you want to be an effective listener its important to use higher listening skills
3. People can usually tell if you arent listening, and you will become more respected if they know that you respect them.

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• I usually try to exercise to the very least, a selective form of listening. But next time i find myself in that situation i think ill try using a higher level of listening. Just for the heck of it.

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• I taught Eliot my nieghbor across the hall about that different forms of listening. And then we role played the different forms. Just for the heck of it.

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Learning to be a good listener is an important skill to have, and can make a significant difference in how accepted or respected you can become among the people you interact with. Its also just a good thing to do to become a more civlized person in general. People always think that what they have to say is important, and if you listen to them appropriately they will love you for it. to an extent.

Jan/17/07

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• More Introductions.
• The Difference between A and B Columns
• Internal Agendas

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• If we can learn to read what is listed in the B Column we can much better understand the people we interact with, and then become more productive.
• Its difficult to get people to share what is in their B Column, because its usually personal.
• Sometimes we let our own Agendas get in the way of letting us see situations more clearly

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• Next time i get in a covnersation with someone ill think about the Agendas and Columns that are going on behind the communication. And explore how things are different with that knowledge.

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• Mason : In the Dorm Room : 7:10

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• I gave Mason the low down and he thought it was pretty cool. He said he already subconciously knew all this, but having words to explain things like, "AB Columns" or "Agendas" helps understand the way people communicate a little more.

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• Channels and observations of different forms of communication
• Face-to-Face Communication
• Audible, Phone Conversation, word of mouth
• Text Form, Email, Text Messages

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1. We use many different channels to communicate in different circumstances.
2. Face-to-Face can also be Audible if the conversation is overheard by someone else
3. Text Messages and emails can be completely confidential. Text form cannot be "overheard" but it can be "intercepted"

Apply: Mason Ball - Roomate

• Mason can text message me during class to ask me what the combo number for the lock on my closet is if he wants to get in to eat my cheez-its. I can send him the number without ever having to leave my place, or distract from the lesson taking place in class.

Teach: Mason Ball - Roomate - Dorm Room - 11:15

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I told Mason about the many different channels we have available to us to communicate, including cell phones, emails, audible conversations and even morse code. He promptly informed me that he already knew that, and that he wasnt born yesterday.