My chosen field of study and work is embodied training. When I tell people this they normally think I mean body language and this is frustrating as they are some critical differences. Describing them has also led me to be very clear about what is not helpful in body language training as it is ...
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What is the reationship between leadership and the body?
Most leadership training reflects the common privileging in the Western World with the cognitive. My claim is that this is a grave mistake and that leadership is an embodied affair.
Leadership and the body
The ...
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The following is taken from a recent body language training course I ran in Brighton.
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There are many aspects to reading people's body language but just a few key principles:
Principles of Body Language Training
Most (emotionally significant) communication is through body language
Up to 80% according to research by Albert ...
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The body reveals who we are and a large proportion of communication is non-verbal, especially when it comes to liking and emotionally significant communication (see Mehrabian). With this in mind I just watched the UK election debate with the sound off in order to assess ...
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