- When we’re listening
- Active listening - 2 methods
- Stay within the footprint
- Use the words that they say or are hearing
- Helpful to check in for understanding
- Allows someone to know they are being heard
- Removes the bias of the listener
- Use the words that they say or are hearing
- Summarizing
- Stay within the footprint
- Active listening - 2 methods
Sono and Sita listenig exercise with John
Moment that stood out: just after the 2nd ask - I hear the sounds of a thousand songs
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thanks for bringing me to this place, let us stay here
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Moment at the last church experienced this
- Find moments of peace, and sometimes the first moment of peace is alluring
- Good friend joined, weekly meals
- Change is constant
- Joy vs peace
- Joy brings contentment
- This contentment was happy to be where he was at, lack of growth
- makes movement harder
- This contentment was happy to be where he was at, lack of growth
- Joy brings contentment
- Stale movement towards God - the moment was peaceful and complacency creeped in
- Jesus - Transfiguration - Peter can only see the wonderful
- Joy vs peace
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What questions does Sono ask? How do these questions facilitate Sita’s journey?
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How does Sono’s silence or lack of explicit guidance influence Sita’s experience?
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What qualities or characteristics of Sono can be related to those of a spiritual director?
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What challenges might a director face when employing Sono’s methods?
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How might directors use scripture or other texts to guide directees?