Event details

Academic Skills	Digital Literacy	Personal Development	Responsibility	Sustainability	Work Environment

Overview/objectives:

In this workshop we will highlight methods, conversation techniques, but also personal obstacles to get in contact with other people or to stay in contact with a good and safe feeling.

 

Contents:

• Types of contact and making contact
• Different contact needs
• Goals and relevance of contact and making contact
• How do I approach people? How do I start a conversation?
• Small talk (topics, transitions, etc.)
• Influences and obstacles when making contact
• Important non-verbal conversation regulators and affective gestures/facial expressions
• Sensitize perception: How can I tell whether the other person wants to continue the conversation/contact? How can I tell whether the other person feels comfortable with the contact?
• How do I steer the conversation to stay in contact or not?
• Setting boundaries and breaking off contact
• Contact and group dynamics
• Strategies for successful long-term contact
• Confident in dealing with telephone contacts
• Recognizing and dealing with personal blockages
• Authenticity vs. politeness

 

Methods:

• Individual work and individual tips for specific communication situations
• Exchange and feedback on self-perception and perception of others
• Physical exercises, partner exercises
• Role plays, trying out specific situations
• Feedback on your own impact and that of others
• Exercises to train perception

 

Prerequisites for participation:

We need your active participation and openness to get involved in the joint discussions and exercises.

 

Workload:

1 ECTS: continuous, active participation + reflection report/transfer task (approx. 5 pages)

  

Lecturers:

Birgit Opielka: graduate social scientist, personnel and organizational developer, ProfilPASS consultant, mediator and systemic/NLP coach, since 2005 freelance trainer, lecturer and coach for various educational institutions, companies, organizations and institutions, focus on: Communication, conflict management, intercultural competence, gender mainstreaming, leadership and team development.

Kristin Wunder: Studies in speech science/rhetoric/pedagogy/psychology, DGT dance therapist, HP psychotherapist, INMEDIO mediator, trainer/coach for 25 years in the private sector, in the education sector, as well as in social and artistic institutions, main focus: Communication, social skills, conversation, conflict management, presentation, rhetoric, bodywork, voice.