Session 8: Peer Dynamics / Communication


As Confucius described, virtuous friendship is characterized by any of these, 1. a friend helping you improve as a person, 2. you helping the other improve. 3. helping each other improve (which is ideal). Other than these three (in situations where it is not about helping each other grow and improve) what is friendship about?

Objectives

1. Discuss friendship - what we seek and value in friends (the adjectives). what we strive to be in our role as friend to others.

2. Discuss the practice of communication as friendship in action (the verb). Review definition of Empathy

Activities

1. Each student writes on their own small piece of paper 3 to 5 adjectives of what they want in a friend. After writing them down on a piece of paper, they fold the paper and hand them to group facilitator who then reads what was written on the paper without naming who wrote it. Group facilitator makes note of similarities in how we really all value similar or same things.

2. Reflection. Students reflect on what type of friend they want to be to others.    

3. Group facilitator defines positive communication as a function of empathy.

4. Discussion. What type of communicator are you (passive/assertive/aggressive/mixed)? How do you help others understand you? What type of listener are you (Do you allow others the space to help you understand them?)

 Example of friendship being possible with people of opposite political viewpoints




  

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