ABSTRACT
This chapter helps students to learn how to express their views clearly and how to work with other people's agendas, when these are in conflict with their own. The term advocacy skills is often used to refer to the practitioner's work on behalf of the client. In this activity, the students use the word advocacy to mean the skills of expressing their own view, even when it comes into conflict with other people's. There are many links between advocacy skills and assertiveness. Successful advocacy, like successful assertiveness, does not start with the premise, there is an argument to be won/but with an ability to express a viewpoint and to inquire about other people's viewpoints, too. Advocacy without inquiry begets advocacy [because] the goal of pure advocacy is to win the argument. When inquiry and advocacy are combined the goal is no longer to win the argument, but to find the best argument.
