



What can be achieved through active listening?Īctive listening is a communication process that makes us change the way other people behave and modify our behavior as well. Rogers believed active listening is a conscious effort where a person needs to attend to the speaker well and make sense of whatever is being communicated. Rogers considered active listening to be of equal importance as that of delivering a message that needs to be effectively framed. Hence it is believed that active listening is a process that is natural and requires no conscious efforts.Ĭontrary to this, Carl Rogers believed that active listening is an active process that needs to be intentionally taken care of during any communication. Many people consider active listening to be a process that is executed automatically and naturally. He believed that empathy and attention to the client during the process of active listening are two main factors that need to be paid a greater consideration to.Ĭarl Rogers’ approach to active listening is different in direction from that of the other people. Carl Rogers believed that the process of active listening needs to be done in an active manner and with a greater sensitivity. Carl Rogers discouraged the idea of active listening being a passive process. What is Active listening according to Carl Rogers?Īctive listening according to Carl Rogers is done as an active process. We will discuss active listening as per Carl Rogers view and also learn the various aspects of active listening that were specific to Carl Rogers theory. The current blogspot will be based on the question “what is active listening Carl Rogers?”.
