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Telecare Crisis & Caring Line is hosting “Love Listens” February 17, 7:00 p.m.--a virtual event focused on active empathetic listening for better relationships. While the event takes place during the week of Valentine’s Day, it applies to all close relationships. Telecare is a faith-based registered charity based out of Abbotsford where trained volunteers use empathetic listening to support callers who are often in estranged relationships. “As media studies show, our digital technologies permit us to communicate with many, thinly, and more and more the same way when we are face-to-face,” states Bill Strom, Telecare’s executive director and the event speaker. Evidence of this is the global downward trend in empathy – the ability to see and feel from another person’s perspective—and fewer close friends’—now just 1.9 on average. The event presents three ways we can approach relationships and how good and poor listening habits spill from each. Attendees will also consider barriers that create shallow listening