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BGO-13: Communication Skills

BGO-13: Communication Skills – Observing how a person thinks, feels and intends

Not only what someone says – how they say it, and what they want to achieve

Communication begins with listening, and listening can be learnt. For anyone whose life brings them into conversations that matter — among friends, in schools, at work, in medical or counselling settings — and who has noticed how much it matters that people feel truly heard.
Learn and practice skills of verbal communication. Develop reflective and deep listening. Distinguish thinking, feeling and intention in communications. Practise Discerning Listening: follow a speaker’s thinking, feeling and intention. Develop capacity for Imagination. Develop capacity for
gaining Inspiration.
Develop skills that are needed in The Helping Conversation.
Leads into the Core Module on Helping Conversation

Topics include

  • Learn and practice skills of verbal communication.
  • Develop reflective and deep listening.
  • Distinguish thinking, feeling and intention in communications.
  • Practise Discerning Listening: follow a speaker’s thinking, feeling and motivation.
  • Meet a four-sided model of communication – receiving with four ears.
  • Develop capacity for Imagination.
  • Develop capacity for gaining inspiration.
  • Develop skills that are needed in The Helping Conversation.

Online group-work explores

  • Preparing incidents from your own life — the observational material for all three sessions.
  • Reflective listening: retelling a speaker’s incident accurately, while recognising your own inner involvement.
  • The roles of Speaker, Listener and Observer — and what each reveals in the review of process.
  • Discerning listening: perceiving a speaker’s thinking, feeling and intention as distinct activities.
  • How thinking becomes visible in a retelling, how feelings weave while someone speaks, and what the speaker wants to do.
  • Ongoing self-development: daily practice of an exercise from Steiner’s Overcoming Nervousness, continuing the work begun in BGO-12.
  • Learning from one another’s practice — how an exercise works into ordinary life, harvested in your Learning Journal.
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  • Study Guide: 83 pages
  • Recorded Lectures: 5
  • Suggested Reading, Journalling, Creative Activities
  • Independent Study: 40 hours, self-paced
  • Fee: 90 AUD – counts towards the full course
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  • 15 hours real-time online, in small groups of 3 to 5
  • Offered once every year – see Course Dates
  • Fee: 290 AUD – full course 380 AUD
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