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Effective communication is a skill that takes work, experience and perseverance to achieve.
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Agreed, but perhaps thought and contemplation as well, or are those contained within "work"?
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A question always in the back of my mind is what is the communication intended to achieve? The Community Guidelines tell us: "This is, first and foremost, a self-help support community. That means if your message (post or PM) isn't about offering support to another person or asking for it, it's potentially not appropriate for our community." "Offering support," therefore, is a requisite to posting philosophies. There are many definitions and nuances to consider when determining what "support" means in the context of this site: http://www.onelook.com/?w=support&ls=a The lack of consensus about what it means to "offer support" makes improving the level of support being offered more difficult. I view offering support as help and kindness that you give to someone who is having a difficult time. If I cannot be helpful and kind, I do not respond.
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Assuming helpfulness and kindness as givens, what room is there for a plurality of approaches to "support"?
Very, very interesting, particularly the Mead and MacNeil piece. It would be nice if that kind of thinking could be brought to pervade PC, but I wonder whether it would be practical. It seems quite complicated.
Take care!
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