Assertion – Personal Strength
Equal communication

Are you saying what you mean without offending others?
Are you not saying what you mean, or do you say it in an aggressive way? Are you preoccupied with what others think, so that it is difficult for you to express yourself? Do you sometimes get too angry or do you get emotional too easily when saying no? Can you become overpowered by doubt and feel unclear about things? Are you often involved in misunderstandings, or are you easily misunderstood? Do you sometimes find it difficult to get your requests and messages through while remaining attentive and on an equal level with the other person?

This course will greatly improve your ability to communicate. You will learn to stand up for yourself and handle your emotions and your communication constructively. You will bring home a solid toolbox and you will be guided through a process where it will become clear to you what your strengths are and where you can develop.

Participants
“Assertion – Personal Strength” is for anyone who would like to conduct themselves with personal impact and clarity. You would like to be perceived as someone who knows where they stand, whilst having the courage to enter into a dialogue.

This course is either for individuals who are somewhat humble and reserved – and perhaps don’t communicate what they mean and are not getting their “words of wisdom” out – or for those who are very expressive and domineering and sometimes put things a bit too stridently.

It is important that you actively contribute and participate during the course and that you want to work on improving yourself.

Benefit
This course will strengthen you in several areas: you will clarify your values and strengthen your self-confidence and impact in your communication with others. You will devise a strategy for developing stronger personal communication and you will have an opportunity to team up with a sparring partner and continue the training after the course.

You will learn to:

• Get your message through in a clear, honest and empathetic way, and you will get better at saying no in the right way
• Give and receive acknowledgement and feedback
• Collaborate and prevent conflict
• Handle difficult situations in a direct and constructive way
• Prevent overloading on a day-to-day basis

Your company will gain:

• An employee with increased self-insight and awareness of their own communication
• An employee who understands their colleagues’ differences and who takes responsibility for their own communication
• An employee who is better at saying yes and no when under pressure
• An employee who is better at collaborating

Course content
In order to help and strengthen you as much as possible, you are asked to complete a questionnaire prior to the course – the questionnaire describes your prerequisites and what you hope to get out of the course.

You will be spending quite a bit of time with your training group on the course; you will be making significant contributions to this yourself. On the other hand, you will receive feedback and support for your continued training and focus on your very personal development requests and challenges. Your way of communicating will be scrutinised constructively – and it will all happen in a safe atmosphere with a sense of being present in the moment that will make you smile as well.

Learning method
You will experience a varied learning method that is very much in the moment and that combines theory about assertion with plenty of individual training and personal involvement, and an opportunity to overcome boundaries and see new opportunities. The course itself alternates between brief theoretical presentations and lots of practical training. The participants will be divided into training groups, with a maximum of six participants in each group.

Additional consultancy
For additional consultancy and personal sparring, please contact product manager Merete Bernhardtsen by calling +45 4517 6119 or send an email.

Some crucial reasons for choosing this course include:

• You find it difficult to express your opinions and ideas – you are not expressing your views on matters.
• You perhaps find it difficult to handle certain situations or individuals – particularly very “strong”, aggressive or domineering individuals.
• You feel a need to express your opinion, play more of a role in meetings, and have more of a say in your daily collaborations at work or in other contexts.
• You feel the need to communicate more clearly, so that your conversational partner understands what you mean.
• You feel inhibited in social contexts – small talk and getting in touch with others can feel difficult.
• You sometimes find it hard to relax in social situations.

Participants particularly like:

• The training groups – the reflection in teams. The participants greatly benefit from being at the centre of attention and receiving feedback on their communication.
• The benefit from being together with others and hearing about/experiencing their problems.
• Getting closer to themselves.
• The fact that the participants’ challenges and problems are the foundation of the course.
• The interaction with others – the feeling of “not being alone with my problems”.

Facilitator
Birgitte Sally, MA in Communications and a psychotherapist. Through her MA, Birgitte has a background in communications and drama. Since then, she has supplemented her education with training as a psychotherapist and systematic-process consultant. Birgitte’s main field of work is communications training and personal development at work.

The price includes
Before the course

• Invitation to a free two-hour meeting on “Good Learning”
• Questionnaire

During the course

• 3 days of facilitation
• 2 nights of accommodation
• All meals 1-2 facilitators, depending on the number of participants
• Max. 16 participants
• Course binder with compendium and notebook for your personal notes
• Incorporation of your own problems