LP8

Skills  that I can offer my group:
Computer skills- I can start a google document or google hangout.
Leadership skills- I can assign certain tasks to people  and make suere they complete their tasks,
Communication skills- I can make sure that we all touch base and that we are on the right track to finishing on time.
Organizational skills- I can make sure all tasks are assigned and that we have goals for when we complete tasks.

Proposed Code of Conduct
If there is a dispute in the group, we will calmly talk through it and figure it out fairly.

LP7

      A relatioship, everyone has relationships in their life whether it's family, a boyfriend/girlfriend, husband/wife, co-worker, or friend. A relationship by definition is a meaningful, dyadic, person-to-person connection in which two interdependent people engage in communication of a persoanl nature, develop a shared history, and try to meet each other's social needs. The way we communicate in any relationship can determine whether that relationship will end in termination or not.
      In any relationship there is some sort of conflict, it could be about someone not taking out the garabage or about a financial situation. Some people would rather talk about the conflict and some would rather say nothing at all. There have been times in my life where I have done both. Sometimes I have a hard time explaing or expressing my feeling to others and in one of my relationships I kept my real feeling inside to avoid conflict, but in the end the reason that there was conflict in the first place was because I hid my feelings. Due to my hidden feeling, the person that I had a relationship with lied to me, which made more conflict. Eventually it got to the point where I couldn't handle the lying and going behind my back, so the relationship resulted being terminated.
      On the opposing side of me hiding my feeling, eventually I burst which is why it is never good to hold true feeling inside. A different relationship of mine with a family member got to that point of bursting. I eventually decided to speak up because I couldn't handle the anger I felt along with the stress. So, we started having a conversation, but it ended in screaming and walking away. After we both cooled off and thought straight, we met up again and had an actual conversation. We both needed to be understanding and talk about how we both felt. After our conversation, we both kept our word about working harder on our relationship.
      I believe that communication is really the key to any relationship in life. If you don't communicate with eachother, then you won't know what the other person is thinking or feeling. I have personally learned that if you express your feeling and tell the truth it's so much easier to have a closer relationship with people in your life.

LP6

        Listening is one of the skills that everyone but may not use. The definition that Julian gives for listening is making meaing from sound. Without making meaning it, as the old saying goes, "goes in one ear and out the other." If we don't apply listening in a conversation, then the conversation is pointless. If we don't listen to eachother, then we don't understand eachother.
        Julian's main point of his speach was that people are losing their listening. They are not literally losing it as an ability, but they are not practicing it enough. If you don't practice something over and over again then you will never be good at it. Unless it comes naturally, which for some people it does. I completely agree with his points. There are so many different noises and sounds in our world that we rarely hear silence. When we do hear silence it can often be awkward or uncomfortable so we try to fill in the silence with any type of noise. So since that is the case, I tried the experiment of sitting in complete silence for three minutes a day. He said that it should recalibrate, so that we may hear the quiet again. When I tried this, it was a very different feeling for me. I am used to constantly hearing noises whether it be a fan on my laptop or a drawer closing in the kitchen. It is not only an unknown feeling, but also an unknown happening. Just to try to find a place that is completely silent is a challenge within itself. When I did find that complete silence, it was refreshing. You can let your mind go wild and think about things in depth without being distracted by someone or something. It was actually incredible. I am also a person who can't sit still, so just sitting or laying down for three minutes without a worry or something to finish was an experience by itself. All of the different excersises that he said can help by making you focus on one thing. If you can focus on one thing even when there are other noises, then you can apply that skill while having a conversation. You can listen to one person and really hear what they are saying while you block out the chatter or noises.
        It is a challenge for someone to hear someone over all the background noise in our lives, but it is an even bigger challenge to really listen to someone and understand what they are trying to say. Everyone has something to say in life, but a lot of the time it is mixed in with the constant chatter and not heard. Julian Treasure made some very good points that everyone should hear and really think about.