As a volunteer at the Palmer Munroe Teen Center I received the opportunity to return to the community, in which I spent most of my childhood, and work with the at risk teens in the Nonviolent Communication (NVC) Program. I volunteered twice a week for 12 weeks, helping to teach teens new methods of handling conflict, recognizing, and understanding their own emotions. By pairing one-on-one with a different teen each class, each teen had the chance to verbally release their frustrations. After doing this, the teen and I would then search for a word that best described the feeling that they were experiencing, and then deduce better ways they could have responded to the situation. This experience is meaningful, firstly because I not only was a
In an online class setting, it can be very challenging to work on a group project that requires the participation of every group member and completing the project on time. This group project was successful one each individual had because we used proper communication to assign tasks, roles, and deadline to complete the project.
So what exactly can nonviolence do to make violence go away in the community? In Chavez’s article about nonviolence and how to prevent violence while he draws the reader in. He draws the reader in with Repetition, Pathos, Ethos, and Logos to help make his point against violence.
Chappell is the founder of the Peace Literacy Initiative, which provides license-free lesson plans for K-12 schools, colleges and universities, and community organizations. Available for free on the initiative’s website, these plans provide age-appropriate advice for youth and adults on identifying the signs of aggression in themselves and others, as well as diffusion strategies focusing on respect, self-reflection, empathy and empowerment. Students are urged to trade the fear that can power aggression with calm, deliberate and just beneficial actions that support justice.
We see brutality everywhere, we approach a problem with the easy way out, violence. That's the solution we all resort to when we see no change or when we feel that the injustices that have been done are too much to go unanswered for. Civil rights activist Cesar Chavez published an article claiming that nonviolent resistance has always been more beneficial than violent protest. Chavez’s purpose in this article is to advertise the negative effects of violence and provide a solution for it. In his article Chavez uses an inspirational and objective tone to illustrate how the effects of nonviolent resistance over time outweigh those of violent protest, he creates an appeal to emotion, logic, and authority to persuade followers of God, minorities, and people who have suffered injustices that have gone unanswered for. Chavez uses many rhetorical devices, the most prominent being: repetition, rhetorical questions and allusions to explain why nonviolence protest is better to accomplish their efforts.
Question-Chapter 3 of our text discusses some communication of African Americans (including Black English, dialect, and Ebonics). Apply the readings to the video and reflect on your perceptions of the video. You may include aspects of the students' communication that you found effective, and aspects you found ineffective or damaging to their cause.
FOCUS OF PRESENT SESSION: The youth checked-in that she was feeling “good,” and her week was the same. During this session, therapist and client focused on controlling her anger during difficult situations. The youth was asked to describe a time when she was unable to control her anger. Denae reported a few days ago, she and her mother had a disagreement over her reported absences from school. The youth noted she became annoyed because her mother continued to question her. She stated she became angry and threw an item on the ground, breaking it. Denae was asked what could have been done differently, she indicated she could have ignored her mother and walked away. The therapist provided the client with feedback and encouraged her to practice
The first lesson of the curriculum has students identify the relationship among crime, violence, drug abuse, and gangs. The second lesson of the curriculum has students analyze information sources and identify realistic, normative beliefs about gangs and violence. The third lesson of the curriculum has students define their roles and responsibilities in their family, school, and community. The fourth lesson of the curriculum allows students to write goals that are realistic and achievable. The fifth curriculum students receive the chance to practice decision-making skills. The sixth curriculum students practice effective communication skills. The seventh curriculum will teach students how to identify active-listening skills and learn how to recognize the emotional state of others. Also in the seventh curriculum students learn how to demonstrate empathy toward victims of crime and violence. The eight lesson of the curriculum allows adolescence students to practice effective refusal skills. The ninth lesson of the curriculum allows students to practice effective refusal skills. The tenth lesson of the curriculum allows students to practice anger-management skills. The eleventh curriculum allows students to identify how anger-management skills help prevents violence and conflicts. The twelfth
I will be doing my service learning placement at Mesa Middle School here in Las Cruces. I will be working with the two social workers at Mesa, Lorraine Guillen and Robert Reyna. At Mesa Middle School they offer a variety of services for their students. They provide crisis intervention, they work with the parents to help facilitate support in their children’s school, they develop intervention strategies to help increase the academic success of their children, and they assist the parents in accessing programs available to students with special needs. They assist the children in understanding and accepting self and others, and finally, they help the children with any physical or emotional needs that can possibly be interfering with their academic success. I plan to use many of the teachings from the first four chapters to help me be effective in helping offer these services to the students. One of these skills is how to work with angry, resistant, or aggressive clients.
In this essay, I intend to reflect on a situation I encountered during my first community placement I had the opportunity to develop my communication skills not just theoretically but also practically, facing a real life environment. My placement made me aware of the importance of interpersonal and communication skills which are very important in the delivery of care. Throughout my nursing career, I will be encouraged to develop reflective practice skills and become a reflective practitioner. Reflection refers to a series of steps that you may take to question and explore an experience with the aim of learning from it. I will discuss the importance of communication in order to maintain a therapeutic relationship.
Throughout the years there have been different ways that humans communicate with each other whether it be from talking, body language, or sign language. But how does this communication affect us as human beings? There are many different types of communication such as Interpersonal Communications, Intrapersonal Communications, and Cross-Cultural Communications. Finding out how people communicate with each other is a key factor in our lives and we need to be able to understand how we can communicate better with ourselves and each other especially when it comes to communicating with people with cultures unlike ours.
their Communications Coordinator and Sexual Assault Advocate. Therein I obtained more experience in assisting survivors of sexual assault by working with walk-in clients in need of immediate crisis counseling and support. Additionally, while in this position, I was given the opportunity to work as a Healthy Relationship facilitator for adolescent girls at Juvenile Hall. I lead group discussions and participatory activities related to healthy communication styles, family dynamics, teen dating violence, and other relevant topics.
Throughout our whole lives, we spend the majority of our time communicating in some way or form. Many people in today’s society are uninformed of all the key concepts and importance of communication, such as interpersonal communication. One major concept in the field of communication is Interpersonal Communication. Many concepts of Communication can be demonstrated in everyday life or even in our favorite movies. This analysis is from the movie, “Blind Side”. There are many concepts of Interpersonal Communication included in this film. Self Concept, Self Esteem, Stereotype, Perception, and Stages of Relationship are just a few concepts that are utilized throughout this movie.
The term conflict is defined as a mutual disagreement or hostility that occurs among two or more individuals. Conflict occurs daily among children in preschool and with adult or teacher guidance, children will learn effective resolution skills to solve their own conflicts. Without an adult or a teacher to guide them, they will not develop effective skills to solve conflicts themselves. Recent research shows us that young children have the capability of being loving, caring, and prosocial with the support of adults to maximize these competencies (Wittmer, 2012). As children are growing they can easily change their behavior with repetitive words from an adult figure. With adult support, children can get along with their peers and have less behavior problems in school as well as in the
In interpersonal communication there are many theories that are similar yet different in many ways. The theories can be combined to describe people and how those people interact and communicate with each other. Many of these theories help explain how people in society form impressions of others, how they maintain these impressions, why people interact with certain people in society, and how people will use these impressions that they have formed later on in life. These theories also help people to better understand themselves, to better understand interpersonal communication, and to better understand people in general. There are two theories in interpersonal communication that, despite their differences, can go hand in hand. The first is
Anger, aggression, and anxiety are issues that continuously arise when dealing with Children and adolescents. This issue could be a result of stress, social acceptance, asserting independence, gaining self-identity, and in some cases parenting techniques. Indeed all of these issues are at times normal and even expected at this developmental stage, there are times when the feeling of anger and anxiety become obsessive and overwhelming for the adolescent. Not only does the effects of anger and anxiety disturb the child but indeed affects the parent, who are in hopes of a well behaved child with good grades. Some of the pressure of being this “perfect child” is another road to stress, anger, and apprehension. As the