Our earliest set of material for the WES Relationship Building adult education courses dates from 1979. This set was collected as one document that we digitized as a single PDF. You can read or download it here.

The order of the document’s sections seems non-linear. There is no lesson plan. So, to help the reader, here is a table of contents. Note that the page numbers written on a page you are reading may not match the pagination of the PDF because this PDF file was assembled from several documents.

Contents

Pg. 1: Cover
Pgs 2-3 diagrams – see note 1 below
Pg 4: Conflict Resolution by Don Montagna
Pg. 11: Incidents
Pg. 12: Awareness Wheel
Pg. 17: a feelings list – primitive emoji’s from the pre-cellphone age
Pg. 18: Interpretations
Pg. 19: Patterns
Pg. 22: Early Childhood Memory
Pg. 24: Miscellaneous Advice

Note 1: Pages 2 and 3 appear to be identical, imperfect copies of the same diagram. The diagram shows 4-mode of speaking. You need to make the following corrections to the imperfect copies. The North quadrant of the circular diagram should be labelled “I. Small Talk”. The West quadrant should be labelled “II. Control Talk”. The other two quadrants are correctly labelled “III: Search Talk” and “IV. Straight Talk”.

This particular instruction set has a special historical interest because it closely reflects the course as it was originally taught by Senior Leader Don Montagna based on the book “Straight Talk: A New Way to Get Closer to Others by Saying What You Really Mean” by by Dr. Sherod Miller, et. al. Other contributors probably included: Lynne and Todd Waymon, Ken Davis, Johanna London, and Mary Bauer Smith. However, that is from one person’s memory. Please write the editor, Paul Baker, to correct me on this history.