China cultural year in Germany
today the China cultural year was opened in Germany in Berlin with a wonderful concert. Have a look.
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/photo/2012-01/31/c_131383950.htm
Have a nice evening. 😉
Read MoreMedically unexplained physical symptoms
I am away for a short holiday. Therefore I am bit lazy with writing. 😉
I hope you can understand this.
Yesterday I got an email from Wentian who will join a researchmeeting in China on the following issue, which I really find interesting.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medically_unexplained_physical_symptoms
As soon as I am home I will write a bit more about this issue from the western point of view. And I hope I will get some more information from Wentian.
Here more info for those who want to get informed right now.
I wish you a nice evening.
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German-Chinese Academy for Psychotherapy
When reflecting the West-East-Integration I often think of my experience of the DCAP congress in May 2011 in Heidelberg / Germany. The issue of this congress was “body & soul – concepts in East and West”. It was a very intensive experience to listen to all the collegues froim Germany and China. It was also emotionally moving and personally impressive……….
Read MoreAnother field of bridging between cultures
Yesterday I talked about the obvious fields of transference and bridging. There’s another powerful field of transference namely: The very personal experience of each us, which all of us experience as western and eastern people. I think of one´s own experience in childhood and in the here and now. Besides cultural and social influences there is a very personal development of each person in his family. It is the very specific way someone is related to his mother, to his father, his brothers and sisters. To all his family.
By that experience the cultural and social influences are so to say broken down………………….
Read MoreSpeechless between two cultures….
……That’s what I experience when writing this blog. Of course I know what and how to do, when trying to figure out some western point of view or some eastern point of view. Of course I can put it into words and if you understand English you ought to understand what I mean.
But it’s not that easy. I think you know what I mean: Trying to put some experience or opinion into German words, translate it to English can of course lead to some different interpretation or misunderstanding. Trying to make someone from the eastern side of the hemisphere, who speaks and understands English, understand, makes it even more difficult. Because English is not my mother tongue and English is not his or her mother tongue.
So there are five obvious fields of transmission………………….
Read MoreForget about words……
Just be impressed by this poetic picture.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CvLl3ztwhg
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Words can harm…….
some days ago I came across some very thoughtful photo on facebook.
The text says: your words can hurt, please use them wisely.
Well, the one side of the issue is that words can harm, can hurt even
Read MoreAnother smile in life….
………creates and establishes connection among people.
On Sunday, as a young boy, after church we went to my grandparents` house. It was a ritual, an unspoken proof of family life, when we went there to meet with my grandparents for dinner. My grandfather sitting behind his huge desktop in the living room. In former times this was not unusual. He was not working on Sunday. But this place seemed to be his throne of importance. Smiling he adressed us with some jokes, often he presented us some funny game to play, before we went to the table ready laid.
Meanwhile my grandma and my mother had been busy in the kitchen. The attractive smell of the special Sunday roast
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Eating and enjoying……
a good friend of mine just left for China. He will stay there for about three weeks. He went to China roundabout 1985 when the country still was so different to nowadays. He remembers and told us how Beijing looked like without so many cars, just bicycles, busses and some taxis. No paved road to the airport andsoon. From those days he went there for so many times that he perhaps can´t count the stays there any more.
We listened to him and his stories while enjoying some wonderful Chinese food. ………
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