❤️🔥 In Relationship With x 💙 Asian Mental Health Project | How Miscommunication Breaks Relationships
Note on the session: This live session will be recorded and accessible to the facilitators, Kevin and Stephanie. They will use it to write a follow-up summary and post the recorded part of only their story on YouTube, to be accessible to folks who cannot attend the session live. Due to the privacy and protection of folks who attend the session, the rest of the recording will not be published or accessible at all.
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🤔 What kind of miscommunicator are you? Take this 2-minute quiz at https://bit.ly/miscommunicatorquiz to find out.
There’s a lot out there on how to communicate, but not so much on how NOT to communicate.
And without knowing your communication blindspots, you risk repeating the same patterns that causes others to distance from you.
As an Asian American, being on the receiving end of miscommunication can look like:
💔 A parent asking questions to support you with your career path, but you end up feeling interrogated bc of the way they ask
💔 A partner intending to open up and get closer to you, but you end up feeling drained bc they overshare w/o boundaries
💔 A colleague wanting to empathize with the stigmas you face in the workplace, but you end up feeling unseen b/c they focus on telling their own stories instead of listening to you
And these are also real examples of ways YOU may also be (unintentionally) impacting others by not knowing your patterns.
There are 4 types of miscommunicators:
❤️🔥 Misguided Empaths loves to connect over depth and subtleties, but not everyone’s ready for that yet
🤷🏻♀️ The Passively Unavailable has their walls up (even if unintentionally), which makes interactions with them take a massive amount of effort
🚽 Constipated Avoidants have so much to say, but end up retreating from opportunities to connect.
🚜 Hurting Bulldozers want to feel safe and secure, but tend to interact with a forcefulness that pushes people away
This is a special session in collaboration with Relating Between the Lines, and Asian-founded school for relational education, where we will unpack the impact of miscommunication on our relationships and how we can begin to close the gap.
Attendees are encouraged to take the quiz before attending, so that they can be prepared to engage in discussion.
It’s safe to say that Kevin and Stephanie’s Asian experience has lots of complexity, and while their experience isn’t representative of all Asian cultures, their intention is to create a space to normalize having conversations about these themes.