12/16/2015

The Feels

Session Activity- Go though emotions
 
Item Produced- List of emotion words, GREAT definition of anxiety
 
Summary-  I had just experienced and breakup, and decided to ask for words for my feelings. Overall, this was a good session because my speaker empathizes and recognizes my mood, and still stayed on track with our research
 
Linguistic Effective- We started with simple feelings, and then moved into those which were harder to describe. In this case having three people was helpful to diffuse the emotional overtones, and also double-check that the expression fully expressed the emotion we were all empathizing with
 
Linguistic Ineffective- I think this went as well as t could. Although I am still having issues understanding/ translating to writing what my speaker is saying
 
Linguistic Provisional Improvements- We need to address listening issues
 
Cultural Effective- On understanding my speaker, it was not very effective, but my speaker did get to know me better, which helps our understanding in general. Also, the definition for some of the emotions were very insightful on how emotions are handled culturally, and withing my speakers experience.
 
Cultural Ineffective- None
 
Cultural Provisional Improvements-  None
 
Tomorrow- Get over it.
 
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