Seeing and Being Seen in Mediation

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Husbands and wives frequently feel like their marriages broke down because their spouses didn’t hear what they were saying. Therefore, the mediator’s ability to see and hear what each party is saying, and to reframe it so that the other party can see and hear it, can make or break their ability to reach a settlement.

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Husbands and wives frequently feel like their marriages broke down because their spouses didn’t hear what they were saying. Therefore, the mediator’s ability to see and hear what each party is saying, and to reframe it so that the other party can see and hear it, can make or break their ability to reach a settlement.

And we have the perfect example here on Typology Central, for most of the time we talk past one another. We do not listen to one another. We are impoverished.

It's true, I have tried to set up a thread where we can practise empathy training, but I have had no takers.

Almost all of us have a narcissistic itch to scratch and we scratch and scratch and scratch, without relieving the itch.

And I am quite sure if we can't listen to one another here, we won't be able to listen to our spouse.