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The visual competence is also based on gender and sex

By: Ulrich Sollmann
10-09-2012
Body language, nonverbal communication, psychology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The visual competence is also based on gender and sex

Nonverbal communication and body reading as an ability to be aware of the other is radically based on the competence of awareness. Scientific research shows that this competence is rooted in (brain) physiology on the other hand. And related to experience on the other hand. Experience so to say is closely connected with the surrounding context, society and cultural factors.

To see, so to say, means not to see. And not to see means …………

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Touched by the shadow

By: Ulrich Sollmann
08-09-2012
Body language, nonverbal communication

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Touched by the shadow

The dark red rose decorates a little girl’s hand while the girl’s eyes dive into the rose’s flavor. Both, the girl and the dark red rose, form a meaningful unit of presence, awareness, being in touch with each other and thus creating reality.

The girl of course is in love with this little boy whose shadow leans towards her. It is an emotional reality with the unspoken message “You’re here when you’re not here. You’re here when I want you to be here and you are near when I’m aware of this beautiful dark rose.”

Of course one would say the little boy is not there. It is……………………

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The “skin” is the message – 8 (power is colourful)

By: Ulrich Sollmann
25-08-2012
Body language, nonverbal communication, psychology

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The “skin” is the message – 8  (power is colourful)

Well clothing is the second skin so to say. The German chancellor Angela Merkel is chosen as most powerful woman in the world (Forbes).  Long time befor she became chancellor she was already famous for her colourful clothing. In those days we called her the living …………..

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The skin is the message 7

By: Ulrich Sollmann
24-08-2012
Body language, intercultural

 

 

 

 

Here is a link to some little subgroup in Germany where they discuss Chinese tattooing. They are interested in the meaning of various tattoos, argue about the corect writing of the graphics andsoon. It`s of course not an important subgroup or action in which they are engaged.

I pick up this link and communicate it, not in order to invite you to get your own tattoo. ( You must know I come from the times where only sailors or criminals had their tattoos ;-)) No I want to underline that there can be some activity group in the one culture w ich is totally engaged in some cultural practice of a totally different culture.

Maybe you know about those littel cultural islands. I once heard for example that there is an Austrian or Bavarian village totally rebuild in China somewhere. Or that they celebrate the German carneval in some Chinese Metrople. Or that there is Chinese Carneval Club in Bonn / Germany.

I wonder how those little islands will develop and build up some kind of grass root integration. 😉

http://hanzismatter.blogspot.de/

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How the body shapes the way we think

By: Ulrich Sollmann
20-08-2012
Body language, nonverbal communication, science

How the body shapes the way we think

an interesting and convincing but also strange  approach to the issue of the importance of movement for developement and learning.

All of Pfeiffer`s projects contribute, one way or other, to the central theme of understanding intelligence. The central concepts which form the basis of the approach include embodiment (the physical realization of agents), morphology, system-environment coupling, dynamics, and material properties. Pfeiffer`s main research fields are biorobotics, learning and development, evolution and morphogenesis, and collective intelligence.

Pfeiffer and his collegues are convinced that movement and the ability to move are basic elements of intelligence. So, one could think that body language and nonverbal behaviour also are aspects of intelligence.

If you are interested just have a look at his book.

How the Body Shapes the Way We Think
A New View of Intelligence
Rolf Pfeifer and Josh C. Bongard
Foreword by Rodney Brooks

http://www.neuroscience.ethz.ch/research/computation_modeling/pfeifer

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NEMO was there…….Everybody is NEMO

By: Ulrich Sollmann
17-08-2012
Body language, intercultural

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NEMO was there…….Everybody is NEMO

Probably you do not know “my” NEMO. Probably you do know Nemo from Jules Verne. Probably you do know Nemo from Walt Disney.

Well “my” NEMO is a pantomime, an actor who is on stage, or shall I better say, is in life without words. He is a “Stummspieler”, as he presents himself. An actor who is just there. And being there as he is, as he embodies himself, as he embodies life, is the message. Just without words.

“My” NEMO also is a clown. But not this kind of circus clown. He just has a red clown`s nose and ………………

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Chinese language is body-language (6)

By: Ulrich Sollmann
09-08-2012
Body language, intercultural, society

Chinese language is body-language (6) – an apple is not an apple –

When remembering the experience in Düsseldorf I begin to understand one important difference between the German and Chinese way of writing / painting graphics and letters. We know about the meaning of a letter and a word, independent from writing this letter or word in a proper way. So we do not feel any necessity to write in a proper way, with concentration or full awareness. We know: an apple is an apple. And if we write this word in a readable way it is ok to do so.

To me it seems that this is quite different to ………..

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Let’s think about relationship

By: Ulrich Sollmann
08-08-2012
Body language, intercultural, nonverbal communication, society

 

 

 

 

 

 

Let’s think about relationship

Let’s think about being a little girl, a little child and being old and growing down to the earth. These two people, the smart little girl and the old (bowed?) woman represent relationship in so far as the child is aware of the people around her but does not have to be always engaged with these people. The child goes out to his own future and …………

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Three faces – one face

By: Ulrich Sollmann
06-08-2012
Body language, intercultural, nonverbal communication

 

 

 

 

 

 

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 ………….

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language is…… / Sprache ist…….

By: Ulrich Sollmann
03-08-2012
Body language, nonverbal communication, science

language is…..sounding movement…

or the sound of movement.

Sprache ist….Laut (laut) gewordene Bewegung.

Following the German philosopher Wttgemstein this means that language derives from movement. Movement is THE charactersiticum of life. If you are dead you cannot move. And when you can move this brings up feelings. Alweays. All this together he says is language.

So the word as part of the language is only ONE part of language. No more. There is also a life impulse, movement, feeling, expression, someone who is aware odf this andsoon.

Tomorrow I will talk about some psychoanalytical concept which leads to the same view. I will call it the Mama-situation or Mama-scene.

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