Communication skills training

Various types and forms of the Group Communication Skills Training are used all over the world for those who are trying to improve their communication (Social, Interpersonal, Negotiating etc.) skills. Thousands of books and articles devoted to these topics are published every year. The training scheme based on the holistic Social Pedagogical Concept developed by the Prussian educational thinker Friedrich Diesterweg n the middle of the 19th century and on the Technology of Instruction Theory created by the Russian psychologist Piotr Galperin in the middle of the 20th century and developed by their followers is widely spread in Europe and used by Social Workers and Psychologists for children and for adults to improve their Communication Skills. The following article describes practical implementation of this schema.

The concept of transforming personal behavior from impulsive to reflexive level forms the basis of active social psychological education. It is accomplished through objectifying and assimilating to a wider spectrum of daily life models, patterns and communication. As soon as a person realizes the inconsistencies that his everyday impulsive social behavior has brought, he (she) becomes conducive to change learning new behavioral models, patterns, approaches, and ways. These models and patterns form the basis for new mental actions that ensure better communications in daily activities than previously for the student. After learning of these new models, patterns of social behavior, they are gradually assimilated and adapted into a person’s consciousness and transferred back to his unconsciousness impulsive level. Such transformations are accomplished under the direction and influence of the referent group and trainer.