We started our last session with a fun variation on a name game, before discussing last week’s homework question: “Where would better communications be useful in your life?” This shed some light on some communications in school that could be improved.
The main point I wanted to cover in this session was how important it is for the listener to check their understanding of a communication. This simple skill prevents many common communication issues from arising.
We played a version of the ‘broken telephone game’, where people whispered the message around the circle and we see how close they are to the original transmission at the end. We then played it again but this time the listeners related back to the whisperers what they had heard.
Next we moved on to play a variation on a game from last week, where we role-played various scenarios to practise communication. The key point was to cleanly and fully summarise your partner’s communication.
This marked the end of the workshop topics, and we spent the remaining 20 minutes doing feedback; questionnaires, the mindset dot feedback from the first workshop, and a few people recorded some video clips as well.
We’re just starting to look at the results of the feedback, but some of it is very promising. Here is a composite photo of the mindset feedback that we ran before the first workshop and after the last. It shows people’s beliefs in their ability to change various aspects about themselves. After the last workshop people showed a marked increase in their beliefs about being able to change!
