Book Bonanza Wednesday! Chapter 19: Meta-communication

Each week we give away the next chapter of our book for free. We hope you enjoy it! Here’s this week’s chapter:

Chapter 19: Meta-communication

Meta-communication is communication about communication. When communication isn’t working, you can use meta-communication to help you figure out why and to make things better in the future. Many of the techniques we talk about are meta-communication in a broad sense, but in this chapter we’ll talk about a particular kind of meta-communication: conversations you can have once to make lots of future conversations better.

What if someone often uses a particular word or phrase that sparks an unhelpfully defensive reaction in you? Meta-communication can help: bring it up a single time so you don’t continue tripping over it again and again. What if a particular kind of misunderstanding arises over and over again? Meta-communication can help: bring it up once to talk about how to avoid the misunderstanding in the future or how to deal with it more gracefully when it does happen.

…and here’s the rest:

• Read The Usual Error ebook, Chapter 19: Meta-communication (web page)

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• Book Bonanza Wednesday! Chapter 21: Trust your future self
• Book Bonanza Wednesday! Chapter 27: Reflection
• Book Bonanza Wednesday! Chapter 15: What did you intend?
• Book Bonanza Wednesday! Chapter 23: The only way out is through
• Book Bonanza Wednesday! Chapter 11: Ask for what you need

Have you read our book, The Usual Error? It teaches you how to solve communication issues with compassion and understanding, how to get rid of needless conflict from your life, how to make your relationships smoother, and how to generally be happier. Also, the illustrations are super cool. (: You can buy it on Amazon or read it for free online.