1. Too Good for Drugs and Violence Lesson 5
Getting What You Want
Too Good for Drugs and Violence
Lesson 5

2. What is Communication?

3. 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.

4. Ways to Communicate
Speak Text Skype/FT Write Newspaper Music Smoke Social Media Pointing Internet/Blogs Facial Expressions Mail Body Language News/TV Phones Sign Language Airplane/Billboards Radio Websites Apps

5. Communication Activity 1
Speaker Cannot use hands or body parts. Can only speak/ cannot answer questions. Drawers Cannot ask questions. Must actively listen. Draw what you are told to draw/what you hear.

6. SHAPE # 1

7. ACTIVE LISTENING 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.

8. Use Active Listening Activity 2
Speaker
Can use hands or body parts.
Can speak and can answer questions.
Drawers
Can ask questions.
Must actively listen.
Draw what you are told to draw/what you hear.

9. SHAPE # 2

10. How Do They Relate?
Communication
Getting What You Want?

11. What's Your
Communication Style?

12. PASSIVE COMMUNICATION
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.

13. AGGRESSIVE COMMUNICATION
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.

14. ASSERTIVE COMMUNICATION
Open, Honest and Direct
Stand up for themselves and what they feel.
Respect themselves and others.

15. Why?
Why is this a focus in the Too Good For Drugs & Violence Unit?

16. Getting What You Want! Saying No! Setting Goals
Unhealthy Relationships
Peer Pressure
Interviews