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Handle challenging conversations, understand people, anticipate their actions, and be truly understood and respected. In this course you will explore the following six topics: 1. Inviting, guiding and observing self-disclosures and narrative sharing 2. Perspective gaining skills 3. Perspective shifting skills 4. Attributional complex thinking skills (considering multiple causes for behavior) 5. Preventing misjudgment and bias 6. Accurately explaining and predicting behavior By the end of this course, you will be able to: · Understand and apply perspective taking, perspective gaining and perspective shifting skills · Prepare yourself to engage skillfully in complex conversations · Invite people effectively to share their perspectives through narratives and self-disclosures · Use conversational strategies to help others express and clarify their perspectives · Use conversational strategies to help others understand and appreciate your perspective · Hold multiple perspectives in mind and evaluate them to identify common ground and key differences · Use complex attributional thinking to avoid bias and improve accuracy · Leverage mental state reasoning to accurately interpret and anticipate behavior · Verify and refine your explanations and predictions of behavior The components that guide your learning: 2 Videos 1 Theory exercise (learning retention) 2 Preparation exercises (establishing a baseline) 1 Observation exercises 3 Practice exercises 2 Evaluation exercises (assessing your learning progress) Your time commitment for the course: · The course takes about 10 hours to complete, but you can go at your own pace. · You will have access to the course for 12 months from the date you enroll, so there’s plenty of time to learn, practice, and revisit the material.