Making and Keeping Friends: Part 1 - 2023 BIAYR Educational Talk Series

Please join Simone Friedman (Speech-Language Pathologist), for Part 1 of this 2 Part Educational Talk Series about Friendship. She will be discussing useful skills that can be learned to help make and keep friends!

Making friends can be very challenging. Like learning a sport or piano, making friends is a complex skill that can be learned. However, people often take this learning for granted and the skills are not realized, understood or practiced. In these webinars, Simone will be covering some of these skills.

Part 1 Topics:

• The art of Listening
• Emotions (what they are, how they are created and how they affect my behaviour)
• Thoughts (what kinds, positive and negative, how to assess them)
• Perspective Taking, Perspective Getting
• Understanding how my emotions and behaviours affect you and vice versa
• Understanding context and how it affects friendship
• Different levels of friendship and matching up your communication

Part 2 will be taking place on March 15, 2023, check back soon for tickets!

Please note this Educational Talk runs from 1:00pm until 2:00pm, the Q&A component is included in the 1 hour.

About Simone Friedman:

Simone Friedman is a Speech-Language Pathologist who owns and runs a clinic in Toronto called Therapy Spot. She has been assessing and treating individuals with cognitive-communication difficulties secondary to Traumatic Brain Injury, Mental Illness and Social-Communication difficulties for over 23 years. Aside from running Therapy Spot, managing employees, and working with clients, Simone is an adjunct professor at McMaster University. Simone is an avid learner and recently completed a post graduate diploma in neurobehavioural science. In her spare time, she loves travelling and you can often find her in a small surf village somewhere in the world trying to find calm rolling waves that she can surf.