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Healthy communication presentation
The document discusses healthy communication skills such as listening, nonverbal communication, communicating under stress, and empathy. It provides examples of each skill and emphasizes focusing on the speaker, avoiding judgment, showing interest, keeping an open posture, using positive body language, loosening shoulders and breathing when stressed, looking for humor, being willing to compromise, and understanding the other person's feelings. Unhealthy communication includes blaming, defensiveness, labeling, sarcasm, hopelessness, and denial of feelings. The document encourages remembering the EAR method of showing empathy, being assertive, and communicating respectfully.
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- 1. Healthy Communication Finding theright words
- 2. Skills needed foreffective communication Listening Good Nonverbal communication Communicating under stress Empathy See following slides for more
- 3. Good listening skillsinclude Focus Avoid interrupting Avoid judging Show interest
- 4. Nonverbal communication By focusing,you are showing that you respect what they are saying Keep posture relaxed and easy Positive body language (nodding, smiling and sitting tall)
- 5. Communicating under stress Trythese examples to practice quick methods to decrease stress during communication: • Loosen shoulders and breathe • Look for humor, laugh! • Be willing to look at their side and compromise • Agree to disagree
- 6. Empathy One of themost important things you can do is to try to understand their feelings Keep their emotions in mind
- 7. 5 Components ofEffective Communication Truth Empathy Question to clarify Use “I feel” sentences Say something positive
- 8. While communicating, remember: EAR Empathy:Acknowledge their feelings Assertiveness: Express your feelings openly and directly Respect: Use a respectful and caring tone
- 9. Some examples ofunhealthy communication Truth (you are right, they are wrong) Blame (it is their fault) Defensiveness (refuse to admit imperfection) Labeling Sarcasm Hopelessness Denial of your feelings Problem solving Mind reading Passive-aggressive
- 10. Summary of healthyand unhealthy communication Here is a one page summary.
- 11. Test your communicationskills How are your communication skills? Try this online test to find out! (You don’t need to fill in any information, just say “no thanks”
- 12. Revise your communication skills Shouldyou blame them? Use Worksheet 19 to find out If it isn’t worth it to blame them, use Worksheet 20 to evaluate your conversation and look for alternative ways of resolving. Remember EAR (empathy, assertive, respectful)
- 13. THANKS FOR PARTICIPATING! NEXTWEEK, POSITIVITY AND HAPPINESS!!!