If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? : My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating.
Alda, Alan, 1936-
If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? : My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating. - xviii, 213 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes index.
Relating : it's the cake -- Theater games with engineers -- The heart and head of communication -- The mirror exercise -- Observation games -- Making it clear and vivid -- Reading minds : Helen Riess and Matt Lerner -- Teams -- Total listening starts with where they are -- Listening, from the boardroom to the bedroom -- Training doctors to have more empathy -- My life as a lab rat -- Working alone on building empathy -- Dark empathy -- Reading the mind of the reader -- Teaching and the flame challenge -- Emotion makes it memorable -- Story and the brain -- Commonality -- Jargon and the curse of knowledge -- The improvisation of daily life.
The actor and founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science traces his personal quest to understand how to relate and communicate better, from practicing empathy and using improv games to storytelling and developing better intuitive skills.
9780812989144 0812989147 9780812989151 0812989155 0812989163 9780812989168
40027280741
Random House Inc, Attn Order Entry 400 Hahn rd, Westminster, MD, USA, 21157 SAN 201-3975
2016045922
Interpersonal communication.
Interpersonal relations.
Interpersonal relations
Interpersonal Relations.
Communication.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Business Communication.
SCIENCE--Study & Teaching.
SELF-HELP--Communication & Social Skills.
Interpersonal communication.
Interpersonal relations.
Communication in science.
Self-help publications.
Self-help publications.
BF637.C45 / A424 2017
153.6
BF637.C45 / A424 2017
If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face? : My Adventures in the Art and Science of Relating and Communicating. - xviii, 213 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Includes index.
Relating : it's the cake -- Theater games with engineers -- The heart and head of communication -- The mirror exercise -- Observation games -- Making it clear and vivid -- Reading minds : Helen Riess and Matt Lerner -- Teams -- Total listening starts with where they are -- Listening, from the boardroom to the bedroom -- Training doctors to have more empathy -- My life as a lab rat -- Working alone on building empathy -- Dark empathy -- Reading the mind of the reader -- Teaching and the flame challenge -- Emotion makes it memorable -- Story and the brain -- Commonality -- Jargon and the curse of knowledge -- The improvisation of daily life.
The actor and founder of the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science traces his personal quest to understand how to relate and communicate better, from practicing empathy and using improv games to storytelling and developing better intuitive skills.
9780812989144 0812989147 9780812989151 0812989155 0812989163 9780812989168
40027280741
Random House Inc, Attn Order Entry 400 Hahn rd, Westminster, MD, USA, 21157 SAN 201-3975
2016045922
Interpersonal communication.
Interpersonal relations.
Interpersonal relations
Interpersonal Relations.
Communication.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Business Communication.
SCIENCE--Study & Teaching.
SELF-HELP--Communication & Social Skills.
Interpersonal communication.
Interpersonal relations.
Communication in science.
Self-help publications.
Self-help publications.
BF637.C45 / A424 2017
153.6
BF637.C45 / A424 2017