If that means missing practice, and a little game time, that's O.K. because you'll still reduce the pressure from your Dad while enjoying playing soccer. When you get your grades up, and feel like you can come to every practice, we'll re-evaluate then. Thanks a lot coach. Because the coach listened empathically, the player felt relaxed enough to open up, to get to the heart of the matter without becoming defensive, short, or frustrated. Psychologists refer to this feeling of having enough room to breathe as psychological air.
Empathic communication rearranges the nature of the opportunity.
Rather than simply an exchange of information, the talk promotes change or transfor- mation. During this process, the player will go from emotional to logical. If the player returns to an emotional state, it is beneficial to return to listening empathically, until the logical state returns. Again, many will argue that to listen empathically requires more time than is available. And this is frequently the case.