Personal Learning Insight 8.3: Practicing I-Messages
Write a short list of situations that you have found frustrating or angering. Perhaps choose situations that you think, in retrospect, you could have handled better. Then, for each one of these, try writing an I-message to the person you would most like to talk to. If a message is about a situation in the past, can you see how the I-message might have led to a more productive outcome? If the message is about a current situation, think about what might come next in the conversation, and then consider actually using the message!