Conflict

A part of communication which I feel needs further discussion is the concept of conflict. Conflict is inevitable and a part of communication that causes so many negative reactions. People have conflict because they don’t know how to communicate well and then, cant find their way back to positive communication because they don’t know how to deal with conflict in a healthy productive way. I enjoyed reading the different types of ways people handle conflict. I tend to withdraw a lot during fights and etc, possibly because of cultural expectations. Instead of fighting my point, I just say whatever and go away. This is not healthy nor does it end the conflict, but rather it extends it because the resentment and feelings are still there. This is something very obvious that everyone knows but it is different when you read it and you read the correct steps to deal within communication and arguments. We did do a lot of work on conflict though, but it is such an interesting topic that I would have enjoyed further discussion on it.

Nonverbal communication

A topic that I found the most interesting was the topic of nonverbal communication. Like most people I limited this concept to just facial and body language and paid little attention to the rest. In reality, kinesics is not the only type of nonverbal communication that we experience. Non verbal communication is very complex, extensive, and through project we have written, I have learned that it makes up at leaset 70% of our communication. What we say is not always the important part but how we say it and other nonverbal cues. Proxemics, was particularly interesting to me because we isolate ourselves physically, as well as categorized by where we are sat and other forms of spatial aspects. There is so much to learn about nonverbal communication. Thanks to this course, I learned to pay more attention to the cues that I send out and the positions I put myself in.