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I understand that it's very useful to demonstrate your listening skills by restating their opinions back, then check with them to see if you're stating things correctly.
After a certain amount of that, in which some trust is built up, I suppose one could then apply a bit of the Socratic method here and there.
Every experience I’ve had with this stuff sees the person reverting back once they go back to their regular programming. So often people come around and agree stuff is bad and the next day go back to repeating it that I no longer bother, they’re rarely ever sincere.