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BGO-13: Communication Skills

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

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

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/Willing in communications. Practise Discerning Listening: follow a speaker’s thinking, feeling and motivation. 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

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Topics include

  • Learn and practice skills of verbal communication.
  • Develop reflective and deep listening.
  • Distinguish Thinking/Feeling/Willing 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

  • Practising reflective listening.
  • Perceiving communications related to Thinking, Feeling and Will.
  • Ongoing self-development – exercises to strengthen ‘I’ function.