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More about body psychotherapy

19-11-2012

More about body psychotherapy

Having posted some information about body psychotherapy tthree days ago I was asked to talk more aout it. So here is more about it. You will find body psychotherapists all over the world. Except in Africa and many parts of Asia. So if you are interested ask the specific organisations which are listed at Wikipedia. Or ask me, I will support you as much as I can. So don`t hesitate. 😉

“Body psychotherapy,^[1]^[2]^[3] also called body-oriented psychotherapy or somatic psychology, is a branch of psychotherapy^[4], with origins in the work of Pierre Janet, Sigmund Freud and particularly Wilhelm Reich who developed it as vegetotherapy……..

Body language in Europe

By: Ulrich Sollmann

16-11-2012

Body language, intercultural, nonverbal communication, society

Body language in Europe

well I wrote a lot about body language and gestures in China or what we think about it.

Here are some information about the other perspective: what it is like to communicate nonverbally in Europe or Northern America. Just have a look and get an impression. Within the next weeks I will write more about this perspective.

http://h2g2.com/approved_entry/A427277

http://www.reidsguides.com/t_cm/t_cm_gestures.html

The US hurricane: knowing about it and feeling it is not the same

By: Ulrich Sollmann

31-10-2012

Body language, intercultural, News, nonverbal communication

The US hurricane: knowing about it and feeling it is not the same

The big hurricane shockes the US. New York`s major talked about what happened while Lydia Calas showed the people how it felt to be there. These two people and their performance outline the big difference between words and facial expression, nonverbal expressio9n and body language. The last really touches the people.

Lydia Calas is poetry in motion and she’s opera for the eyes. Lydia Calas IS the Maria Callas of sign language interpreters.

By popular demand, Lydia Calas, …………………

Eyes and eye contact can also be a torture

By: Ulrich Sollmann

05-10-2012

Body language, nonverbal communication, psychology

Eyes and eye contact can also be a torture

I remember the report of a female client talking about her childhood and expressing the specific, typical aspect of relationship between her and her mother.

When she had done something (wrong) or when the mother disagreed with the one or the other aspect of what my client had done as a child, her mother used to address her daughter with the following word: “Come to me, look into my eyes and tell me the truth. What have you done, didn’t you know, that I disagree with what you say.

Tell me the truth. And don`t forget, …………

Faces Too Close Perceived As Less Attractive, Trustworthy, And Competent

By: Ulrich Sollmann

01-10-2012

Body language, News, nonverbal communication

Faces Too Close Perceived As Less Attractive, Trustworthy, And Competent

Attraction and competence change from distance to distance, so to say. They are not the same even if it is the same person. Results of a survey show that the perception of attraction and competence change the closer you get to someone. In addition to these results one could say attraction and competence are not fixed characters or features. These results also show how important the individual perception, one`s own awareness is. It also points out that these characters are directly influenced by nonverbal communication…………….if you are interested have a look into the following link.

Chinese manager really under stress (video) – managers` nonverbal behavior patterns on stage – 5

By: Ulrich Sollmann

30-09-2012

Body language, intercultural, News, society

Chinese manager really under stress (video) – managers` nonverbal behavior patterns on stage – 5

under stressThis Chinese manager is asked again for the third time, to give a certain answer. He knows how the panel functions and yet though there is a good simultaneous translation he utters towards the moderator to repeat the question. He does this for three times though the question was very clearly expressed. And then suddenly he started answering, though the moderator did not repeat the question again. It seemed that the Chinese manager had to get accustomed to the stress situation, being asked. ( though he knew that he was asked )

And he does not only utter with words but also with his body-language. He looks …………………

Reassuring oneself (video) – managers` nonverbal behavior patterns on stage – 4

By: Ulrich Sollmann

26-09-2012

Body language, intercultural, nonverbal communication, society

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Reassuring oneself (video) – managers` nonverbal behavior patterns on stage – 4

This German manager shows a strong facial expression while talking. He seems as if he needs the panel and the audience as an vital and indispensable) part of his self-expression and self-confidence. Facing someone, looking at someone, making contact to someone, seems a very substantial manner of reassurance himself.

One could think he asks himself unconsciously: What is the resonance in the face of the other when I say this or that? What is the echo in the panel when I look at all the others?

This is a common habit of presenting oneself on ………..

Three faces – one face

By: Ulrich Sollmann

23-09-2012

Body language, intercultural, society

Three faces – one face

The older you get, the more you’re yourself

I’m convinced about this wisdom of life.

Of course, if you look at these three women on the photo you see different faces. There’s quite a lot of similar expression on the grandma’s face and the daughter’s face concerning the nose, forehead and the upper part of the face. There is less similarity to the granddaughter there. On the other hand there’s ……..

Facial position instead of facial expression (video) – managers` nonverbal behavior patterns on stage – 3

By: Ulrich Sollmann

23-09-2012

Body language, intercultural, nonverbal communication, society

Facial position instead of facial expression (video) – managers` nonverbal behavior patterns on stage – 3

The Chinese manager talks with a strong voice, expresses directly and clearly what he wants to say. He now and then looks at the moderator and faces him as the important counterpart in this rhetoric structure. It seems that he not really directly seeks for direct (eye-) contact to the audience. He is there on the panel, knows about his role to answer the question and to be there as the invited representative.

Of course he shows facial expression but it seems that this expression is more likely to be his attitude rather than to support his words and his habit of talking, in order to support his words and the for the moment specific meaning.

Facial expression seems for him (and the Chinese culture ?) to be more like a sequence of familiar “facial positions”. With whatever meaning at all. And yet……………………….

Managers` nonverbal behavior patterns on stage – basic difference between Germans and Chinese – 1

By: Ulrich Sollmann

21-09-2012

Body language, intercultural, nonverbal communication, society

Managers` nonverbal behavior patterns on stage – basic difference between Germans and Chinese – 1

Basic differences – observing managers on stage while joining a panel discussion at the China-Germany business forum in Cologne 14^th of September in Cologne.

You can at once realize basic obvious differences in behavior patterns. While the Chinese managers mostly directly face the audience or the moderator answering their questions, German managers more often look around to the audience, the moderator, the other managers on the panel and back. They instead of the Chinese managers take the panel and the stage as a space where they move around by looking. Answering the questions changes into a scenario of a visual dialogue. This dialogue is supported by a rich facial expression.

Chinese managers instead of this more often look ……….

More about body psychotherapy

Body language in Europe

The US hurricane: knowing about it and feeling it is not the same

Eyes and eye contact can also be a torture

Faces Too Close Perceived As Less Attractive, Trustworthy, And Competent

Chinese manager really under stress (video) – managers` nonverbal behavior patterns on stage – 5

Reassuring oneself (video) – managers` nonverbal behavior patterns on stage – 4

Three faces – one face

Managers` nonverbal behavior patterns on stage – basic difference between Germans and Chinese – 1

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