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