Interpersonal Communication

Friday, January 8, 2010

Rubric - Personal Contract

Outcomes

Understand the axioms of interpersonal communication and the principles of the self.
Identify the strengths and weaknesses of the perceptual process of communication.
Distinguish between the risks and advantages involved in increasing self-disclosure.

Point Value: 200

Activity Description
Discover your self-concept; how you see yourself, how you think others might perceive you, and how others might actually perceive you. This requires you to take a personal inventory of your strengths, virtues, weaknesses, vices, values, beliefs, opinions and attitudes (items found in your open and hidden panes of the JoHari Window). You will also need to talk with people close to you and ask how they perceive you based on your inventory.

Read The Four Agreements by don Miguel Ruiz.

Outline agreements you’ve made that you would like to break. Your hidden pane may have agreements that allow you to discount your self worth or your companion’s. Your blind pane may have old habits that can interfere with the way you communicate.

Outline agreements you want to make that can help you reach interpersonal competency and personal freedom.

Draft your personal contract indicating your discoveries and agreements. This document should demonstrate your understanding of agreements, the Self Concept, and the JoHari Window.

Activity Rubric
1. The Personal Contract represents self-discoveries based on the learner’s own inventory, what the writer believed others’ opinions were about their self, and what the writer learned about themselves through the disclosure of others.