3.3.3. Interpersonal Communication

3.3.3. Type Interpersonal Communication

Presentation, dialogue, reflection experience, instructor-led training

Objectives

Participants will get to know the basic ways of communication and learn communication methods that are reaching them through the media; Raise awareness on how different communication methods can be in personal and professional life.

Duration

25-35min

Group size Materials Description

Debriefing & Reflection

Learning outcomes

15-20 participants Markers, flipcharts & a board. The facilitator makes a presentation on ways that conversations work and connects it to the ‘Draw as I tell you’ game. The facilitator introduces the transmitter, the message and the receiver. The facilitator keeps on presenting to the participants the obstacles that the transmitter and the receiver have to face in order to have a successful conversation. The first obstacle is the ‘noise’. Here is where the first question to the participants is arising: ‘what is noise?’. The participants will have the chance to contribute with their opinion in the discussion in order to see how each of us perceives the ‘noise’. Then the facilitator explains the meaning of ‘noise’ in communication. Afterwards the facilitator presents the second obstacle, the ‘wall-filter’. The question arises again and after a short dialogue like in the first question, the facilitator explains the ‘wall-filter’. After this presentation, a small discussion takes place and participants share their thoughts or experience with the model. What are transmitters, messages, and receivers? What is "’noise’ and ‘wall-filter’? Do we recognise this model in our lives? Do we find similar issues when we are trying to communicate? Does this model influence the way that we choose our media? Digital competence: Understanding basic ways of communication and obstructions to communication.

Learning to learn: Participants are advised of things that may obstruct their learning process. The debriefing supports individual and collective learning processes.

Additional comments

Social and civic competences: Understanding basic ways of communication and communication methods. Participants need to pay attention to the facilitator and to the questions that the facilitator will make based on the conversation and the presentation.

Resources

communicationtheory.org/interpersonal-communication businesstopia.net/communication/interpersonal-communicationexamples