Family Follow-Up

Offering support to others.

Today we built on what we learned about perspective and empathy by focusing on offering support. Today we took turns as project managers while we were working which required, perspective taking, empathy, and support-offering strategies.
Afterwards, we reflected on specific ways we offered support during these activities and some of the challenges we faced.

How to offer support
1. Use empathy.
2. Be respectful.
3. Offer encouragement.
4. Use clear communication.
5. Use active listening.
6. Avoid taking-over.


Tonight: Ask your teen to describe how they were an ally and which strategies they used to offer support during ELP. How many different examples can they generate?

THEN… Share an example of how you have used the above strategies to offer support to your teen.
Examples: "Hey John, I heard you guys worked on being a project manager today—how did you support your work group today? You know I use some of those same strategies to offer you support.