PSYC 5325 - Advanced Listening Skills

1 credit hour
Students will gain experience in listening and being heard from an experiential therapeutic perspective. They will deepen their skills in helping others focus on the here and now of their experience, a practice demonstrated to increase the quality and duration of psychotherapy’s effectiveness. Students will study key concepts from the work of phenomenologist Eugene T. Gendlin and will apply those concepts in listening practice with peers. Concepts explored in the class will include: the focusing attitudes, the six focusing steps, felt sense vs. emotion, felt sense vs. physical sensation, listening for and inviting felt sense, and the primacy of relationship as context.

Registration Restriction(s): Majors Only
Prerequisite Course(s): PSYC 5125