Why should I take this workshop?
One of the significant challenges we face on a day-to-day basis is working with others, often from different cultures and with different personalities. Sharpening Your Interpersonal Skills Workshops are designed to enhance the knowledge, attitudes and skills of Christian workers in how we relate to family, co-workers, friends as well as those from other cultures.

SYIS is highly interactive. We will work and share together in pairs, small groups, and as a whole group as well as practice the skills with each other. The best methods of adult education are utilized so that maximum learning takes place.

What will I learn?
Certain elements of each workshop may vary due to individualized needs assessments.
However, some of the many topics that will be considered are:

• Loving Listening: Become aware of the skills needed to minister more effectively to others through listening well.
• Advice and Problem Solving: Learn about the role of advice and examine and practice steps involved in helping others solve problems.
• Confronting: Study biblical guidelines and consider useful skills for confronting others and responding effectively when confronted in anger.
• Conflict Management: Explore biblical ground rules for effective conflict resolution and examine a step-by-step strategy for managing conflicts and helping others manage conflict.
• Community: Learn what destroys community and what attitudes and skills can help to build community.
• Stress: Consider the impact that stress has on yourself and others and develop a strategy to manage stress well.
• Suffering Loss: Study the process involved in loss and grief and identify ways
  to help others who are grieving or have suffered loss.

Additional info:

For a more detailed explanation of the topics covered, see our SYIS Topics page, or for a schedule of workshops open to the public, click here.