exercise · all tools
Empathy
Silent eye contact, then one person speaks for three minutes to something on their heart while the other only listens; the listener says back exactly what they heard, with as little interpretation as they can; the speaker adds or corrects; the listener says what they felt, or what they now get about the speaker. Adapted from Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication — the manual's most simple, deep and reliable exercise, and one it warns professional groups may need more time for.
Practical
- Time
- 15 min
- Group
- 2–∞ · pairs, triads
- Settings
- in-person, online
- Mechanisms
- dialogic-encounter, emotional-processing, feedback-mirroring
- Change scope
- state → skill · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- authrev.org/ar-games-manual — Authentic Relating Games Manual, paid
- Availability
- In the source document — the instructions live inside the material linked, on its terms
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0 (Authentic Relating Games Manual)
Source link checked 31 Aug 2026 — unchanged since we recorded it on 29 Aug 2026
This directory describes and points home; the instructions stay with the people who made them.
Origin
Austin Love Juggernaut, adapted from Marshall Rosenberg's Nonviolent Communication — Nonviolent Communication (Rosenberg); carried into Authentic Relating (Authentic Relating Games Manual, 2025 edition)
In this directory via Authentic Relating Games Manual
Related: NVC Dialogue Practice (variant-of)
Variations in the manual: a triad with a second reflector, and Empathetic Conversation ('what else?', 'what I think I get is… is that true?', then resonance).
status: checked · added 2026-08-31