Dear Participant,

 

the seminar is designed to strengthen your communication skills in various aspects both in your professional and private life.

Every-day communication brings about a number of challenges in dealing with colleagues, supervisors, family, friends and partners. We will look into the challenges you are personally faced with and equip you with new means of arriving at a deepened mutual understanding and better solutions in situations of disagreement or conflict.

When tensions build and keep on lasting at work, it may feel more and more burdensome to go there every day. Conflict within hierarchies can be especially challenging. Together, we will investigate how to positively transform our professional relations.

Conflict within the field of people who we are the closest to in our private lives is even more detrimental. This is because our degree of identification with our beloved ones is the most extensive. That is why it is so highly valuable to enlarge one’s personal capacities and competencies in dealing with challenging interaction.

In order to become aware of your own part in inter-personal dynamics, we will also dig deeper. You will gain a more profound understanding of what drives you as a person and get to see more clearly in what ways you profit from personal drivers and where they might limit you. Furthermore, you will get to comprehend how the way in which you treat yourself interconnects with the way in which you treat others.

Ultimately, the goal is to increase your self-awareness in interaction and in relation with others and to make you grasp how you can influence the course of what happens between you and others constructively. This leads to a productive and fruitful collaboration with people with whom you work and to better relationships in general.

In order to get you there, we will be working on theoretical input as well as in practical exercises and experiments. I am very much looking forward to working with you.

 

Yours sincerely

Felix

 

Please, read below how course participants in 2022 have liked the seminar and in what ways they have benefited from it:

 

 

“From my personal point of view, I really enjoyed the workshop and it was totally worth investing time into. The various activities that the workshop was divided into were intriguing. I took a lot of take-home messages from the same and learned about my behavior in particular with the others. I would like to absolutely recommend every Ph.D. student to invest their time and effort in the workshop. I would definitely like to participate in future seminars held by Felix.” Shreya, participant in 2022

 

“What I really liked of the seminar was the experiment because it was highly interactive and practical. I think the seminar is really good and I would like to recommend it to other grad school students.” Pietro, participant in 2022

 

“Transitioning from the theoretical knowledge to actually applying it in a real life scenarios is quite hard and Felix (and all of us as well) created a safe space where we could put in practice all these new ideas. Moreover it was done in a way that we actually had a lot of fun. Felix was really friendly and approachable and quite flexible and accommodating when it came to our needs.

We covered a whole lot of diverse topics on communication and conflict management both on a theoretical level and on the hands-on part and even got the chance to converse on a more rhetorical/philosophical level. All in all it was a great experience. I learned a lot from Felix and the whole group and would highly recommend to the rest of the grad students to go for it.” Artemis, participant in 2022