Greetings are wonderfully unconscious words. How often do you ask, 'what have you been up to?' or 'how are you feeling?' only to kindly follow with a related example of your own. Here we grow awareness of relevance, need to know, and how we can grow our conversations (it's more fun than knowing all the goss!).
Some conversation advancing questions:
What's important to you about that?
What's one thing you enjoyed at the weekend?
How would you like to feel instead?
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