Explearning Communication and Social Fluency with Mary Daphne

During times of social distancing it can be easy to feel down, isolated and afraid. Here are some strategies to help you stay connected, feel calm, and discover new things about yourself and loved ones. We discuss mental wellness, socializing virtually, and connecting with people we love on deep levels (albeit online).

Surviving social isolation and social distancing can be lonely for some people. Learn our strategies for staying connected with each other and combat loneliness from social isolation and social distancing during difficult times.

We discuss conflict resolution for shy, sensitive, introverted people in this Livestream. Learn how to handle conflict and tense communication situations by implementing these conflict management strategies.

Conflict management for sensitive people is a delicate social situation. Learn how to resolve conflict in a collaborative, non-combative, non-hostile way. By using these three strategies, you'll be able to tack any conflict and get to bottom of it peacefully, professionally, and politely.

Caring what other people think and fearing their judgement is a waste of time. But it's hard to unshackle yourself from this fear. Here are some insights that we share in the live conversation during this Explearning Livestream!

If you're experiencing social anxiety about what people think of you, our strategies for overcoming the fear of being judged will help. Stop fearing what people will say about you and pursue what makes you happy and fulfilled. If you can find a mission that's bigger than you, you're golden!

Responding to rude people can be challenging. We unpack this concept in our YouTube Livestream and discuss some ways of dealing with negative comments, cyberbullying, and knowing when to respond to haters and when to let it go. Let it go, let it go... 🎶🎶🎶

Learn about the art of interruptions. We talk about how to interrupt, when interrupting is appropriate, how often to interrupt, and how to read the conversation. We also unpack the types of transition relevance places (TRP) from conversation analysis.

Handling people who talk too much can be a delicate situation. Learn how to interrupt a chatterbox or talkative person in a polite way. Learn all about TRP (transition relevance place) from Conversation Analysis to do a polite interruption. When you know how to interrupt politely, you can jump into the conversation!

Learn all about romantic competence (Joanne Davila, 2009) and why it's the guide for healthy communication in relationships. We unpack the three core skills for cultivating romantic relationships through communication: insight, mutuality, and emotion regulation.

On our list of relationship goals is building love to last. Romantic competence is what we need to nurture healthy romantic relationships. Learn the three core skills of romantic competence, according to Dr. Joanne Davila. We talk about insight, mutuality, and emotion regulation.

Why does face to face communication matter? In this live conversation, we discuss the importance of communicating with people in-person. Introverts and extroverts alike need social interaction IRL, no on screens but in person!

There are several benefits to face-to-face communication, making it the best type of interpersonal communication we can find. Learn about the 7%-38%-55% Rule, which will improve your in-person social interactions. While technology helps us stay connected, f2f communication enables us to have a crew we can count on.

We're talking about symbolic interactionist theory and how symbols shape not only our reality but our communication. Our interpretation of symbols has a direct impact on our social interactions. Listen in as Greg and MD discuss examples of symbolic interactionism in everyday life.

Symbolic Interactionism is a communication and sociological theory that helps us understand how to build relationships through communication. When we communicate we try to reach mutual understanding by creating shared meaning. But what happens when we're not able to achieve a shared understanding? Broken relationships.

Assertive Communication is an important communication style to master if you want to project strength and confidence. Asserting yourself will enable you to get the respect and attention you deserve. You'll notice you'll be taken more seriously when you use assertive language with managers, colleagues, and friends.

If you want people to treat you with respect, you need to leverage assertive communication. Learn how to use assertiveness by focusing on three communication elements: assertive tone of voice, clear wording, and strong body language. Assertive communication will help you get what you want across all social settings!

Greg and MD discuss how to find your communication style in a way that will promote authentic self expression. You have the power to decide what communication styles you want to adopt and how they'll apply to various social settings, across personal and professional communication contexts.

Learn about the 6 common communication styles and how people really see you based on the way you communicate. I walk you through some of the characteristics of each style and share the top styles for your personal happiness, mental wellbeing, and professional success.

Even when you're silent and don't think you're communicating, guess what? Even your silence communicates something. Learn how to manage the silent treatment - either if you're the silent treatment giver or receiver - so that you can have smoother more solid social interactions.

Here's your informal email writing guide! When you compose a casual and friendly email to friends and family, follow these three easy steps so you can ace this asynchronous electronic communication! We cover the three key parts to informal emails: warm greetings, clear purpose and intention, and a personal sign off!

When people ask you "So, what's your story?" how do you usually answer? In this live stream conversation Greg and MD discuss strategies for best answering this question. Hint: the best answer will depend on your context: setting, participants, goal. Watch for our insights!

They say hindsight is 20/20. Learn what hindsight bias is, why it is detrimental to social relationships, and how to prevent it! As a bonus, you'll also learn how to respond to that annoying phrase "I told you so"!

Learn how to reduce speaking anxiety and put an end to nervous shaking. Whether you're doing public speaking, getting interviewed, on a date or speaking to a group of friends it is not uncommon to have a shaky voice or shaky hands anxiety. We give you strategies to help mitigate the effects of nervous shakes.

Learn about groupthink, groupthink examples, why conformity is not always good in decision-making, and how to share your opinions in group meetings with confidence.