If you’ve had good results with the Socratic method in any situation where the ‘questionee’ did not voluntarily accept the ‘questioner’ as someone with more knowledge or status, I’d love to hear about it.
In my experience, without that teacher-student dynamic, the Socratic method irritates the Questionee after the…

EEEK! You left out the best method of all: Share your own views—as your own, not as the “other side” in an argument.
You came close in your discussion under “Listening,” because listening is, indeed, the first step. But if ALL we do is listen, we’re not holding up our end of the social contract. If we fail to speak up…