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Episode 54- Back to Basics - Empathic Responding How Empathy Becomes Something the Child Can Actually Feel
Host Kylie Ellison continues the Back to Basics series with a deep dive into empathetic responding, the skill that takes reflecting feelings a step further. Kylie unpacks how empathetic responding differs from sympathy, agreement, and projection, why it stays with the child's felt experience rather than the cause behind it, and what it actually takes to deliver it well: warmth, congruence, following the child's pace, matching intensity, and trusting silence as part of the work.
She also walks through five common pitfalls practitioners fall into, from evaluating instead of reflecting to…
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