Robert Turcescu & Mircea Toma

Curriculum

Dialogue

Social Navigation handbook

The essential condition for desciphering the communication process is to know who is communicating: what is the communicator’s identity, what is his social role, what motivations and personal projects he has. Understanding the message is much more easily done, once the active motivations have been correctly identified.

1. What does “to exist” mean? The personal project
   1. Who are you? Motivations, aspirations, status.
   2. Central motivations and current motivations.
   3. Active motivations.
   
   
2. Who are you, regardless of what you want to be?
   1. Roles. Status.
   2. Typologies.
   
   
3. You and only you. Self-knowledge exercises.


4. Empathy exercises. You in another’s shoes.


5. Is change possible? Affirmative demonstration.

Debate

1. Written and spoken communication.
   1. The news. How is a news made? How can you create and articulate your message?
   2. How can you transmit your message? Nonverbal language.
   3. Empathy, irony, emotion. How to arouse and hold the others’ attention.
   4. The persuasive dialogue. Conflicting opinions. Persuading the other. Clarifying/ solving an issue.
   
   
2. The “triangle dialogue”: at least two interlocutors, and public.


3. Dialogue in front of the TV camera. Exercises. Feedback.