Passive, Aggressive, and Assertive Communication // The Peace Academy Curriculum
Passive, Aggressive, and Assertive Communication
When it comes to communication, balance is key.
We can view the communication styles of passive, aggressive, and assertive, as a spectrum with passive and aggressive being the extremes and assertive being the healthy balance in between.
Passive Communication
This involves prioritizing other's feelings, wants, and needs over your own.
People who passively communicate will not express their needs or stand up for themselves.
They are usually soft spoken, lack confidence, have weak boundaries, avoid all conflict, and may even have a victim mentality.
Aggressive Communication
Those who aggressively communicate cross over their own boundaries into another person's boundaries.
They aggressively communicate their feelings, wants, and needs at the expense of others by ignoring other's needs and/or bullying.
Aggressive communicators are usually loud, disrespectful, easily frustrated, unwilling to compromise, inconsiderate of others, explosive, manipulative, critical, and sometimes even threatening and hostile.
Assertive Communication
The key here is balance as both party's feelings, wants, and needs are adressed.
Assertive communication means that you can communicate your feelings, wants, and needs in a clear and calm way while also listening to and respecting the needs of others.
Assertive communicators are confident and exhibit healthy boundaries and an ability to compromise.
Being passive is bad because people can take advantage of you
Being aggressive is bad because people can notice it, and stop hanging out with you.
Being assertive requires a certain balance from our part, but it’s the best way of communicating. Besides, it can help us achieve our goals in life.
Balance is truly the key, one need to listen before speaking, understand after assessing every word before reacting, so as not to be called passive or aggressive for our words are more or less like a loaded gun, ready to shoot at what direction pointed to
frig communication. im a furry. im just going back to ggrrring and waggin mah tail. label at will
#solidarity. We are all furries.
Really a fury or joking about being a fury
Me at a fury con |/
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Sorry, it get auto added to most of my footers because I am a part of the teams. I editted it down a bit. Were you joking about being a fury?
i am not a fury. except when im angry, and then im probably Tisiphone. Agg and I have a running joke about being a furry because i'm a rabbit dog. He may actually be a closet furry, not sure.
I'm agree with you... thanks for share @aggroed
Being assertive gets the job done!
All these communication styles have there own advantages and disadvantages.People who are Passively communicator are more sensitive then others because they truly understand others feelings so they try to avoid all things which may hurts others.
Assertive communicator are some time soft speaker and some time react strongly its depends on their Mood and Situations.While Aggressive communicators are less tolerate they reacts with out thinking.This is I think very damaging thing.
Balance is key!
Well said. I tend to think folks who are passive or passive aggressive tend to hold lower self esteem while the aggressive type operate on guts to hide the lack of self esteem. Well worth the read. Thanks.
When you encounter a problem, try not to see it as an attack against you, but as a dispute that needs to be resolved. Share your thoughts and thoughts as they are. @aggroed
Your thought is good....I also agree with you...