Chapter 10 Ungrounded Grounded interpretations Step

Chapter 10. ✤ Ungrounded ✤ Grounded interpretations Step 3 — Enact your experiences.

You will learn how: ✤ To choose a story ✤ To involve listeners ✤ To convince effectively ✤ To organize your story ✤ To tell a story spontaneously ✤ To use intercultural charisma

Telling a story is a universal form of communication Maria Kolchedantseva

Telling a story is a universal form of communication Maria Kolchedantseva

Disembodied Facts and Explanations Are Ineffective Why? • Speakers do not express personal connection to them • Their Listeners are not engaged Why do many people mistakenly use them? • To transmit information • As a means of persuasion • Just because others do Using disembodied facts is a bad habit that we should get rid of Polina Dobrova

THREE MAIN ELEMENTS FOR BUILDING INTERCULTURAL TRUST Mostenets K.

1 ELEMENT Mostenets K.

2 ELEMENT Mostenets K.

3 element 3 ELEMENT Mostenets K.

Chapter 10 ∕ “When explanations are useful and when they are not” What is right and what is wrong?

üTry to be clear with a user. üExplanations are not useful for grounding your opinions or building trust. üMany people are in the habit of explaining things without realizing the ineffective nature of that approach.