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Lesson 1: Awareness of Ourselves, Our Rights and Communication Issues

D. How We Deny & Claim Our Basic Rights

Take time now to assess your behavior and attitudes. Best of all create some solutions that might help to better support ourselves and claim our rights.

List five behaviors or attitudes that allow you to deny yourself your basic rights.

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List five ways we allow our co-workers and colleagues to deny themselves their rights.

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State five ways we could support one another to claim our rights.

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Reminder: Be sure to print this page before moving on. The program will not save your entries as this is a practice exercise for your reference.

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About this Lesson

Lesson 1 addresses awareness issues. Before you can solve a problem you have to know what it is.

A. Understanding Ourselves: Self-awareness is the first step.

B. Your Personal Bill of Rights: It's important to be aware of your rights.

C. Suggestions: Here's how to act on your Bill of Rights.

D. Claiming Your Rights: How we sometimes deny our rights and what we can do to reclaim them.

E. Causes of Tension: Learn to identify common causes of emotional tension.

F. Workplace Game: A simple 10-minute game to improve your awareness and listening skills.

G. How Upsets Occur: Identify the 3 main categories of upsets and how to prevent them.

H. 5 Satir Modes: Spotting typical behaviors and learning how expressions don't always match inner feelings.