What would you do?
Twenty seconds of rehearsal now changes what you'll actually say in the moment. There's no score and no wrong-answer buzzer. The "mistakes" here are the ones every loving person tries first.
Watch Prefer to see it done before trying it? Three short demos of the core moves (approach, connect, redirect): the start-here video shelf.
The pattern you just practiced
Every scenario above is the same move wearing different clothes: meet the feeling, not the fact. Correcting facts asks their brain to do the one thing it can't. Meeting the feeling asks yours to do the one thing it can.