Active Listening - Fun Listening Skills Activity & Free Prompts
Active Listening - Fun Listening Skills Activity & Free Prompts is a relationship mapping exercise that helps participants build useful connections and understand how people, roles, or ideas relate.
How to run it
- In advance, download the Print+Play Active Listening Prompt sheets from the Resources tab, one for each small group.
- Announce that you will soon lead them through a brief exercise that will help to sharpen their listening skills.
- Form pairs or small groups of 3 or 4 people.
- Ask one person in each pair or group to volunteer as the first speaker.
- Prompt these volunteers to respond to a question you pose, eg What are you most looking forward to today?
- Allow each speaker 2 to 3 minutes to share with their partner(s.)
- Instruct all other members to only listen to the speaker, ie offer no judgement or immediate responses.
- When the speaker has finished sharing, invite the listeners to respond by following the Active Listening Prompts one at a time.
- Active Listening Listening skills activity that develops empathy & communication skills.
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Prompts to use +
In advance, download the Print+Play Active Listening Prompt sheets from the Resources tab, one for each small group.
Form pairs or small groups of 3 or 4 people.
Ask one person in each pair or group to volunteer as the first speaker.
Allow each speaker 2 to 3 minutes to share with their partner(s.)
When the speaker has finished sharing, invite the listeners to respond by following the Active Listening Prompts one at a time.
Run this with your AI assistant +
Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, or your own local model: paste this prompt and your AI will co-facilitate this exercise with you.
Adapt this exercise for my exact room. Exercise: Active Listening - Fun Listening Skills Activity & Free Prompts. Readiness: Publishable Draft. Core moves: In advance, download the Print+Play Active Listening Prompt sheets from the Resources tab, one for each small group.; Form pairs or small groups of 3 or 4 people.; Ask one person in each pair or group to volunteer as the first speaker.; Allow each speaker 2 to 3 minutes to share with their partner(s.). Return a concise facilitator script with timing, wording, safety notes, and remote/in-person adjustments.
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