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Reintegration: Communicating With Your Partner, Friends, and Co-Workers. Communication Workshop Overview. Develop an Understanding of the Challenges of Adjustment Awareness of Positive Interpersonal Communication Strategies
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Reintegration: Communicating With Your Partner, Friends, and Co-Workers
Communication Workshop Overview • Develop an Understanding of the Challenges • of Adjustment • Awareness of Positive Interpersonal • Communication Strategies • Identify Effective Communication Techniques
How do People Communicate? • Three Parts Of A Message Body Language 55% Body Language 55% Verbal Content 7% Verbal Content 7% Tone of Voice 38% Tone of Voice 38%
Communication Skills • Tune In • Listen • Give Feedback • Respond
Your Reunion: Heavenly? Or Not! • What Were Your Expectations? • How is Your Reunion Going? • Do Your Expectations Match Your Reality?
ROLE PLAY • Miriam and Mark
Reunion • Expectations: Seeing Life From Your World to the • Relative Exclusion of Your Partner’s - Try to see life from the other’s viewpoint - Adjust initial expectations - Life is messy; both have to compromise • Emotions • - Allow time to re-adjust; resist putting emotions 1st • - Unresolved issues? Help is available • - Attack the issue, not your partner!
Resolving Conflict • Fight Fair • Avoid blanket statements • Don’t attack your partner’s character • Forgive! • Discover and “Speak” Your Partner’s Love Language • Words of encouragement • Acts of service • Time • Gifts • Physical touch
Role Play • Your Turn
Conclusion • The Key to Readjustment From Deployment: • Recognize the Challenges of Communication • Reintegration Success is Achieved Through • Effective Communication: Apply Interpersonal • Strategies and Techniques • Talk Openly, Listen Carefully