Listening Project
Guy Itzchakov defines high quality listening as listening that offers empathy, interest-taking, and unconditional regard.
Bushnell University traditional undergraduates are emerging adults. Monisha Pasupathi’s research shows that high quality listening helps emerging adults become more confident in their adult decisions through emerging adulthood.
What I sought to do is provide a space in the community to discuss what it takes to practice high quality listening and how easy it can be. During a gathering of Bushnell students at chapel I explained the elements of high quality listening and in one gathering we practiced high quality listening.
I then asked students throughout the next 3 weeks to practice the skills to develop comfortability in high quality listening. Once they had practiced this level of high quality listening they were to put stickers on a poster board in Womack Hall as a checkmark of their practice. I sought to get 30 stickers on this poster
After the 3 weeks had passed we had a total of 15 stickers on the poster board
COMM 499, Senior Capstone
Doyle Srader
Richardson 100
11 – 11:30 AM