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Lesson Title: "Improving Communication Skills"
OTHER RESOURCES:
OBJECTIVE:
Each young woman will seek to improve communication within her family.
PREPARATION:
- Bring a watch or timer for the communication activity in the first section of the lesson.
- Prepare individual slips of paper, each containing one of the six “Barriers to Communication” role-play situations.
- Optional: Prepare handouts of “Ways to Improve Communication in the Family” (see the end of the lesson).
- Assign young women to present any scriptures, stories, or quotations you wish.
ATTENTION GETTER:
Prepare the "Communication Activity" found at the beginning of the lesson.
LESSON:
Lesson 8 at lds.org
CONCLUSION:
Ask the young women to listen to themselves and their family members this week and become aware of problems in communication. Suggest that as they recognize barriers or problems, they apply the communication skills they have learned. Suggest that they might want to teach some of these skills in a family home evening lesson.
HANDOUT:
Print the handout off onto a pretty paper for each young woman.
Download Handout
This handout will open in Microsoft Word.
MID-WEEK ACTIVITY IDEA:
Invite someone from your ward or community that has a degree in Communications to talk to your Young Women.
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