This activity challenges participants to set aside their own beliefs and attempt to truly listen to a perspective different from their own.             

As a result of this activity, participants will be able to practice listening for understanding, demonstrate respect, curiosity and empathy for others, and develop relationships with culturally different others.

In this activity, participants will practice offering perspectives without the goal of persuasion and practice listening to other’s perspectives without judgment.

This instrument is designed to measure orientation toward listening with relation to listener perceptions of a speaker. 

In this activity, participants examine how to speak in a non-native language, relate to and try to understand the feelings of non-native English speakers, and think about what words or speech patterns impair meaning. 

In this activity, participants develop empathy for people from varied backgrounds and experiences, demonstrate intentional listening, and build relationships through sharing experiences.

This activity helps participants get better at actively listening for the meaning behind the words.

This reflection can be used to collect useful ideas; identify and share best practices, personal stories, or factual information; or solve problems. 

In this activity, participants listen and learn about each other's values. 

In this activity, participants learn to deal with and express their emotions, develop comfort with others' expressions of emotion, and develop empathy for others and practice empathetic listening. 

In this activity, participants identify expectations for an intercultural experience and practice active listening.

While playing this game, participants practice suspending judgment and asking deeper questions.

Participants get the opportunity to listen to other's poems and compare and contrast the cultural influences in their lives with other participants. 

This assessment measures participants' ability to goal-set for communicative competence in seven different domains of communication, including listening, writing, and presentational speaking.

This activity allows participants to practice listening to other's experiences and perspectives without judgment. 

This assessment measures four modes of receiving verbal information: receptive listening, consensus-based listening, exploratory listening, and action listening.

This activity helps participants increase their level of curiosity about others and develop active listening skills. 

This activity asks participants to reflect on the meaning and importance of civil discourse, which includes listening to other points of view. 

Participants use photos to engage in active listening. 

In this activity, participants identify what to do and what to avoid in becoming more inclusive, analyze sentences to develop a checklist for increasing inclusive behaviors, and identify friendly behaviors that make outsiders feel welcomed and valued. 

This activity enables participants to prepare for a cross-cultural experience, experience and relate to communication barriers, recognize and assess verbal and nonverbal communication, and formulate and discuss strategies for accepting barriers and dealing with frustration.

This activity allows participants to experience how one-way communication, while more efficient, is less accurate than two-way communication, as well as analyze the imprecision of language and the difficulty in describing one's experiences that leads to identical understanding.

This activity teaches participants to listen for their own and other's values as they converse.

This activity enables participants to understand how people can interpret verbal and nonverbal cues and expressions differently. Additionally, it allows them to experience misunderstanding and being misunderstood while learning to cooperate despite communication barriers.

This activity does two things: 1. Help participants understand the importance of using specific language. 2. Encourage listeners to ask questions in order to get all the necessary information during a communicative encounter.

This activity helps participants to understand how we, as listeners, can sometimes hear or interpret something differently than what a speaker actually communicates.

In this activity, participants are challenged to seek information and learn more about someone else without asking any questions.