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 %TEACH LEARN DESIRE MOTIVE TECHNIQUE COMMUNICATION 890417

     In  schools,  colleges and universities it is  common
for   teachers  and  professors  to  teach   communication
techniques.   It  is  not  so  common  for  teachers   and
professors   to  engage  in  teaching  and   communication
regarding    the   motivations   of   open   and    honest
communication.

     Failures in communication more often may be traced to
contexts which inhibit communication,  than to the lack of
techniques   of  communication.   Wherever  techniques  of
communication  are  lacking,   the pervasive  presence  of
contexts  which  have inhibited the practice of  open  and
honest  communication has no doubt played a major role  in
inhibiting  the  development of  effective  techniques  of
communication.

     It is foolish  to  focus  heavily  upon techniques of
communication  outside the context of efforts  to  provide
authentic encouragement of open and honest communication.

     People  who do not feel secure enough to  communicate
openly   and   honestly   whatever  they  most   want   to
communicate,  are not very likely to be concerned with the
development of effective techniques of communication.

     People  who feel so insecure that they are  unwilling
to be vulnerable in open and honest communication, will be
seeking  to develop techniques by which to give misleading
impressions.   They  are  not particularly  interested  in
learning  the techniques which can be used to give  clear,
open  and  honest  expression of  what  they  have  really
experienced,   what they have really perceived,  what they
really believe, and the focus of their own faith.

     Encouragement of open and honest communication is not
a technical process. Encouragement has to do with courage,
not  with  techniques.   Encouragement  has  to  do   with
providing contexts which minimize the need for the courage
to  take  honesty  risks.  Encouragement has  to  do  with
eliciting trust by meriting trust. Encouragement has to do
with giving the gift of security in which it is safe to be
vulnerable  in  intimately open and honest  communication.
Encouragement  of open and honest communication is  not  a
technical process; thus the encouragement of the authentic
use of techniques of open and honest communication is  not
a technical process, even though the apparent focus of the
process may often appear to be techniques.

                                                                                                                               
                         (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in      
                    (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy)  
                                                                                                                               
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