I'm not a psychologist - I keep the conversations oriented towards business - but I help frame a person's experience.
The course is taught by Thomas Darwin, who emphasizes using conversation and orienting your talk toward the audience.
Whether it be to go fill up their water bottle, go outside to get some Vitamin D, or to have an in-person conversation, some movement oriented activity should be happening.
Each interview was conducted as an open theme oriented conversation around the older adult's experience of home, rather than person oriented.
"The clients always think the conversation is too technically oriented," said Ken Nopar, a philanthropic consultant based in Chicago.
"My big thing is changing the conversation to be more oriented toward the future and getting people away from their own personal motives," he said.
He followed this with a similarly oriented study of musical conversation, "Talk's Body, a Meditation Between Two Key Boards" in 1989.
It is a context that resembles some of the patterns of ordinary conversation but that is first and foremost oriented towards an overhearing audience, and hence, performed.
I think the important thing is to create forums (that may well not be oriented to making decision) to continue conversations, relationship building, etc.
The qualitative interview is theme oriented in which an interaction takes place in the conversation between the interviewee and the researcher about a specific subject.
The urban interactions tended to be more instrumental and task oriented than those in the rural clinics where most of the conversation in the urban clinics was focused on the patients' health concerns.
