An Online Course to Optimize Your Conversations
Next start: October 10, 2024 – December 5, 2024
24 hours, 4 webinars, 4 parts over the course of 8 weeks
with Elfie Czerny & Dominik Godat
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What are the benefits of attending?
You are Leader, Coach, Therapist, Supervisor, or Trainer? Did you know that you can optimize your conversations with video analysis? What works in sports, also works with conversations.
With Microanalysis of Face-to-Face Dialogue, we can explore our conversations moment by moment. When we see what we actually do, we can compare it with what we intend to do. This way, you can influence your future conversations more deliberately.
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Get to know Microanalysis of Face-to-Face Dialogue.
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Learn how to use it to optimize your conversations.
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Become a more congruent practitioner.
Join us in this online course where we explore the method, the important elements of conversations, the application in your own conversations, and the fit between what we do and what we think we do.
Download a list of how Microanalysis of Face-to-Face Dialogue has influenced our Practice: Find out what we do differently and how we talk differently about what we do, since knowing more about Microanalysis of Face-to-Face Dialogue.
What is in the online course?
How much…
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4 parts (over the course of 8 weeks)
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24 hours in total
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8 hours of live webinars
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16 hours of asynchronous (self-study) learning
From us…
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Video summaries of important research articles
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An interactive blended-learning environment
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All the tools you need to do it yourself in the future
For you…
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Video analysis of your own conversations
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practical applications
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transfer into your unique context
Together…
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Co-creating an interactive learning community
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Exploring the values of an interactional view
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Experiencing inspiring and fun learning
Optional…
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Learn how to use Elan with easy to use instructions
Week by week…
Part 1 | Interactional View I: Introduction into Video Analysis (6 hours, October 10 - 24, 2024)
Main message: Microanalysis of Face-to-Face Dialogue gives evidence for an interactional theory of communication where dialogue is mutually co-constructed, second by second.
What you learn:
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You get to learn how to video analyze your own conversations.
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You get to know the implications of an interactional view for (observing) your dialogues.
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You see the value of looking at/into the world with an interactional view for your future conversations.
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You learn how dialogue is mutually co-constructed, second by second.
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You will be able to reflect interactions differently by exploring how meaning is co-constructed in face-to-face dialogue.
Main Content:
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The Interactional View
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Calibration
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Co-Speech Gestures
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Video analysis
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Optional: Get to know ELAN
Times:
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Preparation Part 1 – self-study – October 10-24, 2024 (4 hours)
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Webinar Part 1 – Thursday, October 24, 2024, 5pm – 7pm/17:00-19:00 CEST (UTC+2) (2 hours)
Please note that on October 27, 2024 the time changes from summer time CEST to winter time CET, which might effect the webinar hours, if you are in a different time zone.
Language: English
Technical Requirements:
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Preparation: You will record a video on your smartphone or computer.
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Webinar: We will use Zoom for the webinar. You can join with a computer, tablet or smartphone. To ensure a good video and audio quality, please use a headset (e.g. the earphones of your smartphone) and turn on your webcam.
Part 2 | Interactional View II: Elements of face-to-face dialogue (6 hours, October 25 - November 7, 2024)
Main message: Our attention changes the dialogue and this can be observed.
What you learn:
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You get to know how meaning is co-constructed.
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You see your contribution in the dialogue and the contribution of your conversation partner.
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You learn the language of Microanalysis of Face-to-Face dialogue.
Main Content:
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How questions work
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Answering spectrum
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The co-constructing process
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Formulations
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Observable differences in listening
Times:
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Preparation Part 2 – self-study – October 25 – November 7, 2024 (4 hours)
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Webinar Part 2 – Thursday, November 7, 2024, 5pm – 7pm/17:00-19:00 CET (UTC+1) (2 hours)
Please note that on October 27, 2024 the time changes from summer time CEST to winter time CET, which might effect the webinar hours, if you are in a different time zone.
Language: English
Technical Requirements:
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Preparation: You will record a video on your smartphone or computer.
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Webinar: We will use Zoom for the webinar. You can join with a computer, tablet or your smartphone. To ensure a good video and audio quality, please use a headset (e.g. the earphones of your smartphone) and turn on your webcam.
Part 3 | Applying Microanalysis of Face-to-Face Dialogue I (6 hours, November 8 - 21, 2023)
Main message: You can deliberately influence the dialogue with what you choose and focus on. And this can be observed second by second.
What you learn:
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You observe how your interactions in dialogue fit your theory of change.
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You can optimize your contributions to your conversations.
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You learn from what you actually do and what is observable in the video.
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You can become a more congruent practitioner and show this on video.
Main Content:
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Applying Microanalysis of Face-to-Face Dialogue to conversations
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Your theory of change
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Positive vs. negative content
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Topic Choice
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Deliberate Listening
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Questions that lead to change
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Video analysis of your choices
Times:
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Preparation Part 3 – self-study – November 8 – 21, 2024 (4 hours)
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Webinar Part 3 – Thursday, November 21, 2024, 5pm – 7pm/17:00-19:00 CET (UTC+1) (2 hours)
Language: English
Technical Requirements:
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Preparation: You will record a video on your smartphone or computer.
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Webinar: We will use Zoom for the webinar. You can join with a computer, tablet or your smartphone. To ensure a good video and audio quality, please use a headset (e.g. the earphones of your smartphone) and turn on your webcam.
Part 4 | Applying Microanalysis of Face-to-Face Dialogue II (6 hours, November 22 - December 5, 2024)
Main message: Applying Microanalysis of Face-to-Face dialogue is valuable for your unique practice (with individuals, groups, teams, organizations,…).
What you learn:
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Apply inspirations from Microanalysis of Face-to-Face Dialogue in your own conversations.
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Get to know a microanalysis inspired supervision method.
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Train to see opportunities in your conversations.
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Optimize your conversations by observing what you actually do.
Main Content:
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Applying Microanalysis of Face-to-Face Dialogue into your conversations
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A method to see opportunities in your conversations
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Useful questions to optimize your future interactions
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A microanalysis inspired supervision method
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Video analysis of your progress
Times:
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Preparation Part 4 – self-study – November 22 – December 5, 2024 (4 hours)
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Webinar Part 4 – Thursday, December 5, 2024, 5pm – 7pm/17.00-19:00 CET (UTC+1) (2 hours)
Language: English
Technical Requirements:
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Preparation: You will record a video on your smartphone or computer.
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Webinar: We will use Zoom for the webinar. You can join with a computer, tablet or your smartphone. To ensure a good video and audio quality, please use a headset (e.g. the earphones of your smartphone) and turn on your webcam.
Good to know…
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The webinars will be recorded. If you miss one, you can watch it later. If you want to re-listen to it, it will be available.
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There will be easy to do instructions of how to record your own videos week by week. You don’t have to have video recordings of your own work. We will instruct you week by week how to record the short videos that you will need for the webinars. Everybody will be able to record them.
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Learning Elan is optional. We hope that you get excited about it and will use it. If not, that’s ok, too. The course can be done with or without Elan. If you want to learn Elan, we will introduce you to the software and show you everything you need to analyze your own conversations in the future. It’s not a big thing. However, it can be very useful for analyzing your conversations, for trainings, for supervision and for other purposes.
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Payments are done through Stripe. If you don’t have a credit card or want to pay with a bank transfer in advance, let us know.
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Have more questions? Contact us!
Who facilitates it?
We, Elfie J. Czerny and Dominik Godat have been practicing Solution-Focus for more than 15 years and have visited many of the pioneers of Microanalysis of Face-to-Face Dialogue. We are solution-focused practitioners, authors, trainers, and founders of SF on Tour and the Center for Solution Focused Leadership and Conversations in Switzerland. We host the SIMPLY FOCUS podcast and are passionate about bringing more meaningful dialogues into the world. In the last few years, we developed integrated Microanalysis of Face-to-Face Dialogue concepts and trainings that help to apply and optimize your unique practice. In 2018 we together with our daughter received the Steve de Shazer memorial award of the SFBTA for innovations in SFBT.
As co-facilitators of this online course,
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we navigate you through your learnings.
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we show you how you can analyze your own conversations.
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we build a bridge between microanalysis and your own conversations.
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we translate research articles of Microanalysis of Face-to-Face Dialogue for you into easy to watch and understandable videos.
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we share our knowledge and experience with this method and integrated tools that help apply Microanalysis of Face-to-Face Dialogue into your unique practice.
We learned Microanalysis of Face-to-Face Dialogue from the pioneers that have been inventing this approach. Our main inspirations are
What participants say!
“I just wanted to say how much I enjoyed last night’s Webinar!!!! The course is always in my thoughts and I am really enjoying that! Sharing this journey with you all is such a wonderful experience and I love how we are co-constructing our learning together!! Elfie and Dominik, I particularly wanted to highlight how useful your videos are!!! They are just so easy to follow and my learning is instantaneous when I watch them.”
“Inspired by what a phenomenal amount of things are happening between people in a tiny amount of conversation and how seeing this in ELAN makes communication even more beautiful. Trying microanalysis like this today makes me see the learning potential to discover almost limitless possibilities in conversations to connect in useful, profound, and uplifting ways.”
“Learning step by step is very helpful for me so that I can do things in short sequences and then continue working on them later. Then the first experiences with ELAN were very exciting. And I was becoming again aware of things that we do automatically in conversations. I would like to learn more about how we can use this even more specifically.”
“Looking together in such a detailed way into the video sequence of Elfie and Dominik was very useful, also connected with ELAN. I already realized a different approach when working with people, as if there is a new instance in me ready to observe on a different/additional level. So exciting!”
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