Panda’s Table 1

A lot of people stopped by and asked questions about the table.

1st person was a friend of mine. His crush is ignoring him which is making him go insane.

2nd person another friend Her best friend likes her but she doesn’t like him back. 2 page essay due that day stressed.

3rd person was very awkward. My combination of awkwardness did not mix well (need to work on that) She had a ex that wouldn't leave her and her friends alone.

4th person taught me how to shadow box I don’t know if i should be allowed to play games during the table if i am offered (Maybe by playing games i am listening to them?) Need Orly's opinion!*

5th person brought along a group of friends. He wants to die because he is failing all of his classes. Was very awkward he was often waiting for me to talk about myself but i only wanted to listen to him. Tried to make him talk about it more but he gave me short responses.

6th person (Made me sad) He wants to die because of the amount of emotional abuse he has gone through. His friends think he is annoying and push him away.

Reminded me to be more kind to people.

7th person was a friend trying to deal with person 1's problem. She asks advice and I accidentally give it to her. Learned that it is hard to not give advice if it is someone you care for.

Will work on the no advice.

Notes:

Need to be less awkward. I need to be kinder.

Listening can be improved.

Need to know when I should say something or not.

What to say when I should say something (Ex: Making them talk more about themselves rather than me)

Overall: Success! Learned a lot and grateful for the opportunity Orly gave to me!

I was surprised that I don’t really need to say much to get people to continue talking. I did ask some questions in order for them to continue talking but I still got to figure out what type of questions to ask.

Another thing worthy to note down is the look of shock when I said I can’t give advice. People did ask if I could give advice and to that I responded with no except with person 7. The weather was windy and I had a bit of trouble keeping the signs down, but then I moved the speaker chair where both signs wouldn’t move and it worked!

When people asked what the table was about i usually told them that I wanted to spread the message that listening is a skill we should all practice and that it feels good to listen. I also explained that anybody could sit down and talk to me about anything and i'll be here to listen. If they also asked why I did the table I said that I saw a Orly doing tables and i got inspired by him to do tables.

There is a whole bunch of stuff that happened and I could talk about it more and more, but there is so much that I don’t know where to start, so yeah that is most of the story that I can think of right now. Next time I will make sure to journal my feelings and extra details so I could mention it here.