You will be engaging in a dialogic experience by interviewing 2 individuals to practice critical and creative thinking, noting implicit and explicit meanings of responses, cognitive empathy skills, and observations of facial expressions and body language.
Step 1: Interviewing and Observing
Conduct a 10-minute conversation during which time you will engage the respondent in dialogue on the topic of communication in professional and/or personal life. Follow these tips when you conduct your 2 interviews:
- Your role is to engage the respondent in dialogue; make a special effort to employ maximum cognitive empathy skills.
- Prior to engaging in your conversation, spend a few minutes generating questions to guide the dialogue. Consider beginning the conversation using a broad, open-ended question or inquiry such as, “Tell me about an experience when the communication process was effective.” Next, ask multiple follow-up questions. Examples include:
- Tell me more about that.
- How did you feel at that time?
- What was the context for this communication related experience?
- Consider the following areas to guide your observations during the interview process:
- Body language
- Fruitful or interesting moments
- Evidence of cognitive empathy
- Powerful moments
- Emotions expressed
- Immediately following each interview, make notes of the respondents’ answers and identify both the verbal and non-verbal communications observed.
Step 2: Sense-Making
Analyze your notes and other data from the interviews.
Identify any emerging patterns from both interviews (i.e., any common responses, phrases, key words, etc.).
Write a 500- to 700-word paper discussing the overall impressions of the entire process and include your personal reactions to the process.
Consider the following:
- Did this exercise change your perceptions on a specific area/topic?
- How will you use this knowledge as you move forward in the doctoral journey?
- When you do your research?
- Was there any unexpected awareness that evolved from this exercise?
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