A charming performance….worth looking
Really wonderful and charming “Swan Lake” by Chinese State Circus
http://www.nzwide.com/swanlake.htm
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Body language
body and soul – a Western perspective to………
the understanding of psychosomatic symptoms or disturbances.
Three years ago I was asked to summarize some important aspects for the Handbook of Bioenergetic Analysis. The BA is a specific body orientated psychotherapy:
Bioenergetic Analysis (BA) addresses the interplay of body, emotion, cognition and behavior in an original way. Therefore it is closely related …………………..
Read MoreGesture
Gesture is a main topic of body language. It tells us stories about the person himself AND at the same time it is the beginning of nonverbal communication. More about the definition of gesture…………..see the following definition
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/
Read MoreWords and face and words……and understanding
When my wife and I had a walk yesterday we met two Chinese women and one Chinese man picking some grass or so. Wondering what they really were picking up made us come closer and ask them. Quite a bit puzzled and uncertain how to react they smiled at us very openly and friendly.
No words followed. — More smile.
We repeated our question more slowly and smiled also a bit puzzled. And looked at the same time at their hands which held the stinging nettles. We now knew, but…..still stayed there not knowing whether to leave or to go on communicating.
Again no word. Some almost whispering words………………………….
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To meet the strange in yourself
If one understands training as: organized activity aimed at imparting information and / or instructions to improve the recipient´s performance or to help him or her to attain level of knowledge or skill, training just is a necessary step on the way to improve.
Intercultural training as preparing yourself for meeting people from another culture means most of all especially in the beginning nonverbal communication. As you cannot speak the language or understand what is meant between the lines you are just open with all your senses: Your eyes look and try to figure out what it´s all about. Often you see but don´t understand. Your ears listen to some kind of strange sound which you probably have never heard before. Your nose smells extraordinary strange, ……………………………
Read MoreOn Chinese body thinking…
This book uses Western philosophical tradition to make a case for a form of thinking properly associated with ancient China. The book’s thesis is that Chinese thinking is concrete rather than formal and abstract, and this is gathered in a variety of ways under the symbol “body thinking.” The root of…
Link to the Book:On Chinese Body Thinking: A Cultural Hermeneutic
Read MoreMeeting Yang Liu…
tomorrow I will meet Yang Liu in Berlin to talk about eas-west-communication. I will let you know what we talk about.
If you have any question and you are interested in an answer, please let me know in advance. 😉 I will forward it to her.
Have a nice day.
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Yang Liu´s design blog
if you want to read more from Yang Liu or about her here is the link to her design blog. It is written in German, unfortunately. Nevertheless her posters convince without words.
Whenever I meet someone who saw her posters, smiles because now he knows what it´s all about. 😉
http://yangliudesign.blogspot.de/
Read MoreEast and West: so simple….?
Yang Liu was born in China but moved to Germany to be educated. Having grown up in two very different places with very different traditions, Yang Liu was able to experience first-hand what the underlying differences were between the two cultures.
With a people’s perspective on it it all, Yang Liu has created these posters and images using simple symbols and shapes to convey just how different the two cultures are.
http://www.doobybrain.com/2008/01/18/east-vs-west-cultural-differences-by-yang-liu/
The blue side is Germany and the red side is China.
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