Today’s choice
Each session is short — five to seven minutes of real conversation, then a quick read on what landed and what to try next time. Pick whichever pulls at you today; you can repeat any of them as many times as you want.
Practice catching what a friend is feeling without offering advice, fixing, or relating your own story.
Practice listening past judgments and labels to guess the universal human longings underneath someone's complaints.
A short, high-rep drill for staying with someone's pain when they fire "why" questions at you.
Practice making a request and, when you hear "no," turning on a dime to empathy.
Practice delivering a full Observation-Feeling-Need-Request statement and asking the listener to reflect back what they heard.