Healthy Minds Compact: Building - Active Listening
Children explore listening as an active relationship skill rather than simply remaining quiet while someone else speaks. The emphasis is on attention rather than compulsory eye contact. Children can show listening in different ways. Core idea: Listen to understand, not simply to wait for your turn to speak.
Learning Outcomes
Outcome 1:
• understand why listening matters for communication and relationships
Outcome 2:
• recognise that active listening requires attention
Outcome 3:
• notice verbal and non-verbal cues, including words, expression, body language and tone
Outcome 4:
• practise allowing someone to finish
Outcome 5:
• ask questions and check understanding
Outcome 6:
• respond thoughtfully and respectfully.
What's included
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Bounce Forward is the UK’s psychological-fitness charity.
We help children and young people — and the adults and environments around them — develop the understanding, skills and shared language to regulate, recover and adapt through challenge, change and everyday life.
Our work brings together mental resilience and emotional wellbeing, shifting the focus upstream: building capability before crisis, rather than waiting for something to go wrong. We translate evidence from psychology, resilience research, cognitive behavioural approaches and positive psychology into practical learning that can be taught, modelled and used in real life.
From evidence-informed curricula and staff development to family support and whole-community approaches, our work recognises that young people do not develop in isolation. What happens around a young person shapes what becomes possible within them.
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