Meta-Talk

How to Uncover the Hidden Meanings in What People Say

This program is a great 1-hour long program that will entertain and be very informative about what we are really saying when we say....

Talk is a process, just as life is a process. Developing and utilizing the many facets of talk will add new dimensions to your life. Talk to be effective should be flexible so that it is suitable for any situation. Many of us do not realize how intimately we are involved with the drama of talk. We are our own producer, playwriter, director, and star performer. As speakers we have utilized many phrases and expressions that seem to have no obvious logical relationship to what we are saying. This is not the case. Those phrases and expressions are meaningful but in a different area and manner. As we develop a feeling and an appreciation for meta-talk, our talk should change. Its expansion will be from static to dynamic, finally becoming a process-like activity. Its structure will be made up of interactions which produce meaningful transactions. We can evolve in life from being an observer to becoming a manipulator and finally a fully involved participant. One who has passed through this growth cycle might as an example, change his handling of criticism from "You did" to "I feel."