Getting What You Want

Too Good for Drugs and ViolenceLesson 5

What is

Communication?

Communication

•The act or process of using words, sounds, signs, or behaviors to express or exchange information or to express your ideas, thoughts, feelings to someone else.

• With a partner, list all the ways people communicate.

Speak Text Skype/FT

Write Newspaper Music

Smoke Social Media Pointing

Email Internet/Blogs Facial Expressions

Mail Body Language News/TV

Phones Sign Language Airplane/Billboards

Radio Websites Apps

Communication Activity 1

SpeakerCannot use hands or body parts.Can only speak/ cannot answer

questions.

DrawersCannot ask questions.Must actively listen.Draw what you are told to draw/what

you hear.

• Focus on what the person is really saying.

• Observe body language.

• Listen to the tone of voice

• Paraphrase to show understanding.

• Ask questions to clarify.

Use Active ListeningActivity 2

SpeakerCan use hands or body parts.

Can speak and can answer questions.

DrawersCan ask questions.Must actively listen.Draw what you are told to draw/what

you hear.

How Do They Relate?

•Communication

•Getting What You Want?

• Polite

• Used to avoid making anyone angry

• Don’t want to hurt feelings

• Avoid Arguments

• Put other’s wishes ahead of their own.

• Often get hurt themselves.

• It’s my way or the highway!

• Do not respect the feelings of others.

• Are often hurtful.

• Use name calling and ridicule.

• Always put others down.

• Open, Honest and Direct

• Stand up for themselves and what they feel.

• Respect themselves and others.

Why?

Why is this a focus in the Too Good For Drugs & Violence Unit?

Getting What You Want!

• Saying No!

• Setting Goals

• Unhealthy Relationships

• Peer Pressure

• Interviews