Learning and Conversing LO9071

Robert Bacal (dbt359@freenet.mb.ca)
Tue, 13 Aug 1996 00:42:18 +0000

Replying to LO9046 --

On 12 Aug 96 at 14:25, Rachel Silber wrote:

> Some time ago, I remember reading that therapists in training
> will, as a learning exercise, write down theraputic conversation as
> close to "verbatim" as they can, as soon after the conversation as
> possible. It seems to me this is a good exercise for working on
> dialogue skills, in that
> * knowing you're going to write it down from memory
> may force closer attention to the conversation, thus helping to keep
> automatic conversation habits from kicking in;

It might, then again it might not. People are limited in the information
they can track...adding verbatim recording potentially overloads the
cognitive system.

I would NEVER use this technique since it focuses on the words not the
meaning, and the meaning is not the words (oops, I'm in fortune cookie
mode....again).

Robert Bacal, CEO, Institute For Cooperative Communication
dbt359@freenet.mb.ca, Located in Winnipeg,Canada.
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