This document summarizes the narrator's journey exploring various virtual worlds in Second Life, including required sites like Kuttara Zen, Multiple Intelligences, and Bloom's Taxonomy. It describes the challenges of navigating as an avatar and discusses lessons learned about different types of intelligence. The narrator enjoyed colorful, interactive worlds but had technical issues staying logged on. Overall it was an exploratory experience visiting educational sites in the virtual world.
This chapter discusses developing and maintaining interpersonal relationships. It covers Shutz's three social needs of inclusion, control, and affection. Characteristics of relationships include variability, duration, frequency, revelation, meshing, complementarity, symmetry, support, anxiety reduction, and proximity. Knapp's stages of relationship development are also presented. The chapter then discusses relational expectancies in the short and long term and various strategies for gaining affinity in relationships outlined by Daly. Conflict management techniques include leaving the field, changing topics, restoring trust, and compromise. Conflict can be prevented by raising tolerance for disagreement, reducing importance of issues, and increasing affinity between communicators.
Intrapersonal conflict occurs solely within an individual involving conflicting thoughts, values, beliefs, and emotions. This type of internal conflict ranges from mundane decisions about what to wear or eat to major life decisions. Examples given include decisions about spending priorities, career choices, and whether to share private information. If left unresolved, intrapersonal conflict can lead to feelings of restlessness, anxiety, embarrassment, and depression. The document recommends communicating with others for advice as an effective way to cope with overwhelming intrapersonal conflict.
The document discusses empathetic communication and developing empathy. It provides tips for decentering communication, such as giving full attention, not talking over others, and summarizing what you heard. It suggests that mastering empathy can change both yourself and the world. Links are included about mirroring to connect empathetically, developing empathy and imagination to open your world, and fine-tuning relationships through empathy even with strangers.
This document summarizes the narrator's journey exploring various virtual worlds in Second Life, including required sites like Kuttara Zen, Multiple Intelligences, and Bloom's Taxonomy. It describes the challenges of navigating as an avatar and discusses lessons learned about different types of intelligence. The narrator enjoyed colorful, interactive worlds but had technical issues staying logged on. Overall it was an exploratory experience visiting educational sites in the virtual world.
This chapter discusses developing and maintaining interpersonal relationships. It covers Shutz's three social needs of inclusion, control, and affection. Characteristics of relationships include variability, duration, frequency, revelation, meshing, complementarity, symmetry, support, anxiety reduction, and proximity. Knapp's stages of relationship development are also presented. The chapter then discusses relational expectancies in the short and long term and various strategies for gaining affinity in relationships outlined by Daly. Conflict management techniques include leaving the field, changing topics, restoring trust, and compromise. Conflict can be prevented by raising tolerance for disagreement, reducing importance of issues, and increasing affinity between communicators.
Intrapersonal conflict occurs solely within an individual involving conflicting thoughts, values, beliefs, and emotions. This type of internal conflict ranges from mundane decisions about what to wear or eat to major life decisions. Examples given include decisions about spending priorities, career choices, and whether to share private information. If left unresolved, intrapersonal conflict can lead to feelings of restlessness, anxiety, embarrassment, and depression. The document recommends communicating with others for advice as an effective way to cope with overwhelming intrapersonal conflict.
The document discusses empathetic communication and developing empathy. It provides tips for decentering communication, such as giving full attention, not talking over others, and summarizing what you heard. It suggests that mastering empathy can change both yourself and the world. Links are included about mirroring to connect empathetically, developing empathy and imagination to open your world, and fine-tuning relationships through empathy even with strangers.