Activity: Reflection 5 – Educated Guesses (continued) Making educated guesses as the listener is not making assumptions: you have listened carefully to understand the person’s experiences and perspectives. Still, making educated guesses can feel risky because your guess may not accurately reflect the meaning or emotion of what the person said. To increase comfortability in offering educated guesses, let’s continue practicing the second step of forming a reflection. In the same pairs from the previous activity, read each peer item below and work together to generate and note three guesses about the possible underlying meaning or emotion using “you” statements. Here is an example: I am not sure I can participate in these services anymore. • You are struggling to find reliable transportation. • You have a schedule conflict. • You are not having a good experience here. I am feeling so depressed this week. •
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