Workshop-Needs, emotions,borders and relations. Cross-cultural communication with yourself and others 3600-KM-PEGR-OG

The workshops are based on the assumption that all communication, and especially intercultural communication, is more comfortable for the people participating in it if they are aware of their own needs, thoughts and emotions, boundaries in interpersonal contacts and the key mechanisms occurring in the process. communication. Moreover, if they are able to reflect on this awareness, make decisions based on it, and then implement them, the chance of conducting even difficult dialogues in the safest and most satisfactory way increases significantly. The above assumptions and values ​​are present in the broadly understood circle of Western culture. They are not cultural universals and we should not expect them to be respected in every communication situation in the world. However, the competences and knowledge acquired during the workshops are used to work on generally understood intercultural communication, not specific to specific countries, groups or cultures. For the participants of the workshops, they will constitute basic competence equipment, later expanded and modified in practice with elements important in specific communication situations.
The workshops are a space, co-created by the participants and the instructor, to improve the level of the competencies described above by experiencing and reflecting on them.
For the purposes of recognizing and naming needs, as well as identifying, naming and managing thoughts and emotions, proposals created in the area of ​​the so-called Nonviolent Communication (NVC), a model created by Marshall Rosenberg. Solutions in the field of assertive rights, behavior and procedures will be a framework for exercises in defining one's own and perceiving other people's boundaries and setting them in interpersonal contacts.
Finally, the conceptual frame of reference for issues in the area of ​​communication with oneself and other people based on in-depth insight into oneself and reaching for meta-communication will be models by Friedemann Schulz von Thun.
Activating the participants' reflexivity by noting descriptions of thoughts, emotions or states is inspired by the thought and practice of Janusz Korczak.
An additional element supporting the improvement of the competencies described above will be the structure of the workshop: based on a contract, diagnosis of expectations and fears, and an atmosphere of mutual respect and equality in the learning process in the spirit of a subjective approach.