Learning to maintain constructive communication when tension and emotions complicate professional exchanges.
Goals
- Recognizing the mechanisms of stress and anger in a disagreement.
- Identify the progression of a conflict and adjust your approach accordingly.
- Use listening and assertiveness to calm an exchange.
Program
Stress and emotions
- Distinguishing between forms of stress, observing one's reactions, and understanding anger.
- Visualize the stress factor within the context of a conflict situation.
- Clarifying positive stress and negative stress.
Dynamics of the conflict
- Identify the stages of escalation, the power dynamics, and the relational roles.
- Identify the different phases of a conflict situation, from simple disagreement to physical aggression.
- Incorporate the concept of the dominant/dominated relationship.
Constructive dialogue
- Separate facts, feelings and opinions; take a step back from objections.
- Explore and apply the Karpmann triangle.
- Rescuer Phase – Victim Phase – Persecutor Phase.
Calm communication
- Practice assertiveness, empathy, active listening, and paraphrasing.
- Discover the principle of argumentation and objections.
- Clarify the concepts of facts, opinions, and feelings.
Non-verbal communication
- Adjusting gestures, distance, congruence and questioning in a tense exchange.
- Learn to communicate assertively.
- Attack, flight, manipulation, and assertiveness.
Practical application and feedback
- To work on a situation close to the participants' real-world experience.
- Compare several responses and observe their effects in an exchange or incident.
- Develop reflexes adapted to one's professional context.
Evaluation and validation methods
Prior self-assessment and assessment of acquired skills at the end of training.
Target audience
Suitable for all audiences
Prerequisites
No prerequisites



