The Gift of Listening

About mentoring Mentoring is a way of being Mentoring is about being a person that others feel comfortable talking to because they sense you will listen in a caring and non-judgemental way, and because they trust and look up to you in some way. [...] Page 6 The Gift of Listening: A guide to mentoring peers In developing a person-centred approach to helping, Carl Rogers ( watch?v=o0neRQzudzw) describes the active process of listening as “accurate empathy.” In doing so he draws attention to the fact that in order to fully understand a person we must try to see the world through the other person’s eyes, feel the world from [...] If you think about it for a moment, it’s pretty clear why open questions usually provide a better opportunity for you to come to understand the person – how they are feeling, why they are feeling that way – and to make a connection to them. [...] Reflective listening involves responding to the other person in a way that suggests what you think you heard and encourages a further response to either correct your assumption or build on that understanding in a way that develops the thought further. [...] Page 8 The Gift of Listening: A guide to mentoring peers Practising the skills Forming questions Imagine a peer has come to you and wants to talk about their drug use.