Please read the instructions below to help you get the most out of the workshop.

1. Watch this Reflective Listening (RL) Exercise video multiple times.

2. Download, save and print documents listed below and keep them in a folder/binder for easy access.  We suggest that you make multiple copies of the single worksheet.

• Reflective Listening Advanced Instructions & Single Worksheet
• Boundaries Define Us – Cloud and Townsend
• Seven Desires of Every Heart – Mark and Debra Laaser
• Feelings Table and Intensifiers

3. Your Reflective Listening exercise sample: Select an experience or situation and fill out the sentence on your worksheet following the Reflective Listening (advanced version) instructions.  Do your best, but don’t get uptight about doing it perfectly.  Select a topic that you would be comfortable processing with others during breakouts (potentially).

We ask that if you attend this workshop that you are familiar with the video, the worksheet instructions and supporting documents and that you have worked on a couple worksheets (basic or advanced) prior to the workshop. 

During the workshop we will collectively follow the RL instructions with a sample worksheet stopping at each step to breakout into groups allowing time for you to practice on your own worksheet.  We are super grateful to be able to share FMM’s signature skill with you!!   Hats off to you for taking steps toward emotional resilience!

NOTE: In early 2024, FMM updated the Advanced Reflective Listening Instructions and Single worksheet, and recorded a sample using this new tool.  We will share this updated video as soon as it becomes available along with a “package” of videos to support learning emotional resilience.  Those videos will be broken down as follows:

• Emotions & Addiction,”What’s the big deal?”: Addiction is an Intimacy Disorder; Steps to the Development of Anxiety; the Intellectual and Emotional System
• The Basic Reflective Listening Worksheet sample: Unmet Needs and the Seven Desires of Every Heart
• Emotional Resilience: God’s Relational Design; Post Traumatic Growth; Reflection, Relationships & Resilience; Changing Relational Anxiety Patterns; Begin with the End in Mind
• The Updated Advanced Reflective Listening Worksheet sample

We are super excited to share FMM’s signature skill with you!!  Hats off to you for taking steps toward emotional resilience!