Prompt Everyone hopes to have healthy relationships in their lives. Healthy relationships are not easy to create and even harder to
maintain, as they require us to expand our relationship skills. Here are a few different topics discussed within this module:
relationship skills, communication, social engagement, relationship-building, and teamwork.
Choose one of the topics and short definitions below, and cite evidence to support the definition, as well as any inferences it
suggests. Please write why you agree or disagree the text and why. Thoroughly explain your opinion on how this "skill"
would help you in life.
Relationship Skills: the ability to establish and maintain healthy and rewarding relationships with diverse individuals and
groups; the ability to communicate clearly, listen well, cooperate with others, resist inappropriate social pressure, negotiate
conflict constructively, and seek and offer help when needed.
Communication: your ability and capacity to adjust communication style with whomever you are with to create meaningful,
kind, affirming, and positive connection, including listening, body language, facial expressions, hand gestures, and word
choice.
Social Engagement: your ability and capacity to engage socially with those like you, not like you, those you agree with, and
those you disagree with, instead of dodging, withdrawing, or disengaging with people or groups around you.
Relationship. Building: your ability and capacity to create, maintain, grow, and deepen healthy connections and
communication with those in the world, including engaging those different than you and creating meaning and value to help
and serve
Teamwork: your ability and capacity to build relationships, trust, and develop synergy with those working toward a common
goal or vision; collaboration is cooperation and respect for the gifts, talents, and personalities of others to accomplish
something bigger and better together.