2009 Summer Activity - Communications Museum

Communication without Border

A useful course to teach effective techniques of interpersonal communication through mini-seminar, workshops and interactive games, participants can enhance their confidence to communicate with friends and parent.

Contents:

  1. What is communication?
    • The objective of communication
    • Does the result meet your expectation?
    • Communication process and elements
    • Codes, signs and symbols in communication
    • Ways of communication: One-way versus two-way
    • Communication in verbal, non verbal and written language
    • Interactive game: Are ?hearing the truth? and ?seeing the fact? the same?
  2. Modes of communication
    • Virginia Sartir?s five communication modes
    • Communication in the family, the school and the community is not the same
    • Communication with parent
    • Communication with friends
    • Principals of interpersonal communication
    • Role-play activity: What type of person are you?
  3. The language trap
    • Communication barriers and deviations
    • Misunderstanding and prevention
    • Is it important whether you say or not?
    • Culture and bias
    • Pop language, language of Mars and MSN
    • Interactive game: Communication, person to person
  4. Speaking with my heart
    • Effective ways of communication
    • How to ask a question?
    • How to answer a question?
    • Negotiation without difficulty
    • Interactive game: How to start a conversation?
    • Sharing party