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."
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