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This is an excellent video, and is a terrific supplement to Dr. Thompson ' book "Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion which I have found extremely useful. Unfortunately I have never attended any of his training but had training and delivered training loosely around his concepts. Dr Thompson developed an excellent verbal training concept based around a solid martial arts concept so if one is interested in verbal skills its well worth reading his books.
The skit provoked memories of the old Alexi Sayle sketch “The Nobel Art of Verbal Abuse” (contains mild bad language). “Can’t I just knee him in the bollocks?” being my favourite line :-)
The points made, albeit comedically, are that insulting people is not an effective form of de-escalation, and that sometimes a physical response is needed.
This is an excellent video, and is a terrific supplement to Dr. Thompson ' book "Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion which I have found extremely useful. Unfortunately I have never attended any of his training but had training and delivered training loosely around his concepts. Dr Thompson developed an excellent verbal training concept based around a solid martial arts concept so if one is interested in verbal skills its well worth reading his books.
When I read the title "Verbal Judo" it made me think of this old camp skit some students put on. It's only a minute long. Enjoy!
The skit provoked memories of the old Alexi Sayle sketch “The Nobel Art of Verbal Abuse” (contains mild bad language). “Can’t I just knee him in the bollocks?” being my favourite line :-)
The points made, albeit comedically, are that insulting people is not an effective form of de-escalation, and that sometimes a physical response is needed.
Here is a podcast I did on verbal de-escalation: http://www.iainabernethy.co.uk/content/verbal-de-escalation-podcast
All the best,
Iain