10 Dobrovolchykh batalyoniv str., Kyiv
Training course by Irina Khomenko
The art of the argument: How to effectively defend your point of view and criticize your opponent’s position
Every day we communicate with other people: we defend our position by participating in public discussions or negotiations, commenting on social media posts, speaking in front of an audience, convincing colleagues, friends, and relatives of what is important to us.
But do you know how to argue in a way that achieves your goal? Why are the results of your communications sometimes disappointing? Does it happen that you are so immersed in the process of communication that you do not notice your own mistakes or those of the interlocutor, fall under manipulation, and cannot resist all kinds of provocations?
In this course, you will learn how to convincingly defend your position in both everyday and professional communications. You will learn practical tools that will help you be confident when communicating with others. Understand effective mechanisms of influence on your opponent/audience. Learn algorithms for resisting manipulation techniques. By improving your meta-skills on cases designed for different types of disputes, you will be able to become a professional communicator who can overcome the difficulties of any dispute.
THE MAIN GOAL OF THE COURSE IS TO TEACH STUDENTS TOOLS THAT THEY CAN USE WHEN PARTICIPATING IN DISPUTES OF VARIOUS TYPES IN BOTH EVERYDAY AND PROFESSIONAL LIFE. THE FOLLOWING TOOLS WILL BE USED DURING THE COURSE TO INCREASE THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE TRAINING: PRACTICAL CASES, TESTS, MINI-TASKS, VIDEO RECORDING OF PARTICIPANTS’ SPEECHES.
THIS COURSE IS FOR
- Representatives of the public and corporate sector
- Managers of all levels
- Public figures
- Communicators
MENTOR
IRYNA KHOMENKO
Doctor of Philosophy, professor, business coach. Head of the Department of Logic at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv.
Specialization: logic, critical thinking, theory and practice of argumentation, rhetoric.
COURSE OBJECTIVES
- Learn to build a convincing strategic line of defense of your position
- Choose the right tactical techniques to justify your position depending on the specifics of the dispute (discussion, debate, polemics, public speaking with discussion, etc.)
- To work out various options for building an effective criticism of the opponent
- To get acquainted with the top 10 argumentative mistakes and find out how to avoid them in disputes
- Learn how to recognize manipulative traps of your opponents and be able to resist them
COURSE PROGRAM
- Module 1: Argumentation strategy and tactics (how to defend your position)
- Module 2. Strategy and tactics of criticism (how to break down the opponent’s point of view)
- Module 3: Argumentative mistakes and manipulative traps in disputes
DURING THE COURSE YOU WILL LEARN HOW TO
- Develop a convincing strategic line of argumentation and stick to it throughout the argument
- Find convincing tactics for presenting your own position and apply them in a dispute
- Choose an effective strategy for criticizing an opponent depending on the type of dispute
- Apply tactical strikes to the opponent’s position
- Avoid argumentative mistakes when justifying your own position
- Find argumentative errors in the opponent’s texts
- Recognize manipulative traps of the opponent and resist them
PRICE FOR THE STUDY
10 Dobrovolchykh batalyoniv str., Kyiv