Anxiety, Language and Communication- on demand webinar

Description
This webinar will offer practical information to help build your confidence in how to adjust our communication style to reduce anxiety in our students. Students will often communicate less, or even stop talking completely, when anxiety is high. One source of anxiety that we can safely reduce is changing our communication style.

While this webinar was developed for the education space, the content is relevant to other contexts including mental health, disability, family, and community spaces.

Learning Objectives

• describe how our communication and language can impact on someone else's anxiety levels

• list and describe at least 3 practical techniques to try in your contenxt

• describe at least 5 different aspects of our communication we can adjust in the moment to support others

• build skills so that you can reflect on the language around us and notice things that could be adjusted to reduce anxiety in others