Civil Communication Week 4 Vocabulary

Willing to consider and accept other people’s ideas and opinions

• Engaged

• Explicit

• Open Minded

• Civil

The ability to understand other people’s feelings and problems

• Groundwork

• Empathy

• Identity

• Intersectionality

To suddenly stop someone from speaking or acting

• Reflective listening

• Social scripting

• Facilitating

• Interrupt

To respond to another person by repeating back what you think they said

• Interrupt

• Restore

• Reflective listening

• Labeled

Being polite, especially during a disagreement

• Engaged

• Open Minded

• Explicit

• Civil

To be involved in other people’s thoughts and ideas in order to understand them

• Engaged

• Implicit

• Civil

• Inclusive

Behaving in a way that is expected in social situations

• Facilitating

• Social scripting

• Reflective Listening

• Stereotyped