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Personal Change Project

The document is a personal change project proposal by Paige J. Ney aimed at improving communication with her partner during conflicts. The goal is to express feelings clearly to prevent misunderstandings and escalation of arguments, using strategies such as social decentering and separating facts from inferences. Implementation of these strategies will begin immediately, with a focus on specific communication during interactions with her partner.

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Personal Change Project

The document is a personal change project proposal by Paige J. Ney aimed at improving communication with her partner during conflicts. The goal is to express feelings clearly to prevent misunderstandings and escalation of arguments, using strategies such as social decentering and separating facts from inferences. Implementation of these strategies will begin immediately, with a focus on specific communication during interactions with her partner.

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Personal Change Project Proposal

Paige J. Ney

Salt Lake Community College

COMM-2110-404-F22 Interpersonal Communication

Keith Radley

October 5, 2022
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Goal

Communicate more clearly when I am upset with my partner so that conflicts will not

escalate into more significant arguments.

Rationale

When I am upset with my partner, I do not always communicate how I am feeling when

the event or behavior that upset me happens. Often times the behavior or event is something I

misinterpreted or was done unintentionally and not communicating until the end of an evening it

often results in an argument where both of us walk away upset.

Strategies

1. I will imagine what my partner is thinking (Beebe, Beebe & Redmond, 2021, p. 130) by

doing this I will be socially decentering and might better understand my partner's actions.

2. I will try to describe my feelings rather than evaluate behavior (Beebe, Beebe &

Redmond, 2017, p. 166) by figuring out exactly how I am feeling and why instead of

thinking about why my partner did what I did I can better understand and express by

feelings.

3. I will separate facts from inference (Beebe, Beebe & Redmond, 2021, p. 134) I often fall

into the trap of assumption - that my partner is purposefully harming me. By expressing

how I am feeling I will hopefully avoid these assumptions.

4. When I do think there is something I am upset about I should be specific (Beebe, Beebe

& Redmond, 2021, p. 160) about why I am upset and avoid generalizing statements.

Implementation

Describing when exactly there will come up is difficult as they usually come at random. I

will start implementing them this evening as I am seeing my partner later today. We usually see
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each other a few times a week so I will have many opportunities to implement my strategies. We

are already getting better at communicating, as this was a larger issue over the summer but as it

comes up in the future I will try to implement these strategies. If I do make any false and harmful

assumptions about my partner I will apologize (Beebe, Beebe & Redmond, 2021, p. 173) and

refer to my strategies more in the future.


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References

Beebe, S. A., Beebe, S. J., & Redmond, M. V. (n.d.). Interpersonal Communication: Relating to

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