Autonomous and Positive Face | Week 4 Discussion 1
Supporting an autonomous and positive face can be challenging. There are times when an autonomous and positive face can create conflict.
Provide an example of a time that this has happened to you or someone you know in your professional and personal experience. What did you do to resolve the issues of autonomous and positive face? Are the strategies you used for each different?
Forgiveness and Reconciliation | Week 4 Discussion 2
Forgiveness can be an integral part in conflict resolution and even a strong factor in psychological and physical health. Some philosophers state that forgiveness is a gift to the person doing the forgiving, not necessarily for the forgiven.
Using what you learned from your readings (including chapter 9 in Cahn and Abigail) and additional research from the UAGC library:
Compare and contrast the ideas of forgiveness and the concept of reconciliation, as they relate to communication.
Describe a situation in which someone has committed a difficult to forgive relational transgression against you and explain the advantages of forgiveness and reconciliation, emphasizing communication aspects.
Conclude by discussing how understanding these concepts informs your communication techniques in a conflict.
