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Teaching Interpersonal Skills for Negotiation and for Life
Author(s) -
Bordone Robert C.
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
negotiation journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.238
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1571-9979
pISSN - 0748-4526
DOI - 10.1111/j.1571-9979.2000.tb00765.x
Subject(s) - psychodrama , negotiation , interpersonal communication , social skills , psychology , interpersonal relationship , work (physics) , philosophy of law , medical education , pedagogy , social psychology , psychotherapist , medicine , engineering , law , political science , public law , mechanical engineering
Students enrolled in the Negotiation Workshop at Harvard Law School during the past twenty years have participated in an innovative exercise called the Interpersonal Skills Exercise (IPS). Developed through a collaboration of therapists and instructors from Harvard Law School, the exercise uses role plays, videotaping, and certain aspects of psychodrama to help students practice interpersonal skills that they have difficulty performing. The exercise allows students to work in an intensive, safe, and interactive environment with feedback from peers and course instructors. This brief note describes the IPS exercise in more detail, outlining its origins, purposes, and structure.