Kirk Bryan's apartment at Whitefish Springs
Our next topic up is nonverbal communication. We dove into the social uses of laughter last time, so aspects of that can be carried into this upcoming convo as well.
Here's a basic definition to get started: Nonverbal communication is the nonlinguistic transmission of information through visual, auditory, tactile, and kinesthetic channels.
To get the ball rolling in a silly, Friends episodes kind of way:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvEci5Bjgd4
Here's a Ted talk that gets at some aspects of our topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cef35Fk7YD8
Mitch's submission:
Researching this topic sent me down rabbit holes and into a bottomless stream of self-improvement videos that, if I practiced the techniques, promised to make me a very dynamic public speaker, successful in business and more popular, persuasive, and attractive to others.
It probably speaks more to my lazy research skills than to the field of non-verbal communication, but I was unable to find much that was science based on this topic, at least for our species (there was some interesting research on non-human animal communication).
Like the topics of handwriting analysis, lie detection and personality profiling, the popular material that I found seemed to be over-generalized, pseudo-scientific and taught by self-improvement charlatans and quacks. It’s human nature, I suppose, to learn about non-verbal cues and to try to figure out how to manipulate them to their advantage.
One video I watched gave me a chuckle when it showed a technique and said, “you will want to use this gesture to demonstrate authenticity”.
I know my non-verbal social cues could use some work…I’m am anxious and socially awkward. That said, to practice non-verbal skills and assume intentional postures, gestures, vocal tones and mannerisms to hide that fact seems disingenuous and fake.
“This above all: to thine own self be true."
Why do I feel that expanding one’s vocabulary and improving written and speaking skills is a beneficial social skill, but that consciously choosing to pound a closed fist in the air while employing the ‘power thumb point’ to show determination is phony?
I will be curious if others feel that way, and why (or why not?).
Anyway. I found no enlightening material that I was willing to share, but I did learn that there are a lot of forms of non-verbal communication.
I am sharing a very short page of definitions for the '8 types of non-verbal communication’ that might help frame our discussions…I would be interested in hearing the groups thoughts on all of these individually.
http://thepsychmind.com/post/101600803021
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Isaac's prep material:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3P3rT0j2gQ&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3vrzpGSKCMrzAJRsqTD2COm1GFzXcYXWN-c2HH6k41NYriVmnsrI5rTyw
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Annette's contributions (& our topic contributor):
Performance artist, Marina Abromovic, performed The Artist is Present piece in 2010 at the MoMA.
The following links talk about what has happened since then
regarding one subject and delve deeper into her artistic history, including a Ted Talk revealing her newest project.
Marina Abromovic, An Art Made of Trust, Vulnerability and Connection |
Marina Abramović | TED Talks
Marina Abromovic
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/marina-abramovic-ulay-relationship-interview-1045136
I find that there is such a wide scope of experience with the body,
with words and the absence of them, that express themselves through a
wild abandon and freedom in that body and others who are trapped by
that very thing. Related songs to that train of thought:
Arcade Fire (song) My Body Is A Cage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhhZdune_5Q
Kate Bush (music video) Running Up That Hill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp43OdtAAkM
Kate Bush, Love and Anger (music video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyEHKGDSg5I
The Culture Code by Clotaire Rapaille (book synopsis)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44846.The_Culture_Code
"His groundbreaking revelations shed light not just on business but on
the way every human being acts and lives around the world.
Rapaille’s breakthrough notion is that we acquire a silent system of
Codes as we grow up within our culture. These Codes—the Culture
Code—are what make us American, or German, or French, and they
invisibly shape how we behave in our personal lives, even when we are
completely unaware of our motives."
This link takes you to a lot of images of book titles. I find it
interesting at first glance how there are so many books on etiquette
and manners that are for different cultures around the world, a lot of
sport etiquette, work/business etiquette and then a lot for American
women…on how to be a woman.
https://www.google.com/search?q=a+handbook+on+etiquette&biw=1440&bih=802&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=EcHc7P1qhu-3qM%253A%252CxqX7A--aMCDjHM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kTGhwsUdhA-vNIK11ft9vXBkoyWpA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjFqrCW5-rgAhUDqZ4KHWcSAYEQ9QEwC3oECAUQEg#imgrc=EcHc7P1qhu-3qM:
However, oh man, there was this…
https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/the-anatomy-of-etiquette-how-to-be-an-old-school-gentleman-from-head-to-toe/
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Kirk's contribution:
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Sabine's contribution:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfH3_kJv3MM
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Isaac's prep material:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3P3rT0j2gQ&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3vrzpGSKCMrzAJRsqTD2COm1GFzXcYXWN-c2HH6k41NYriVmnsrI5rTyw
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Annette's contributions (& our topic contributor):
Performance artist, Marina Abromovic, performed The Artist is Present piece in 2010 at the MoMA.
The following links talk about what has happened since then
regarding one subject and delve deeper into her artistic history, including a Ted Talk revealing her newest project.
Marina Abromovic, An Art Made of Trust, Vulnerability and Connection |
Marina Abramović | TED Talks
Marina Abromovic
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/marina-abramovic-ulay-relationship-interview-1045136
I find that there is such a wide scope of experience with the body,
with words and the absence of them, that express themselves through a
wild abandon and freedom in that body and others who are trapped by
that very thing. Related songs to that train of thought:
Arcade Fire (song) My Body Is A Cage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhhZdune_5Q
Kate Bush (music video) Running Up That Hill
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp43OdtAAkM
Kate Bush, Love and Anger (music video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyEHKGDSg5I
The Culture Code by Clotaire Rapaille (book synopsis)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44846.The_Culture_Code
"His groundbreaking revelations shed light not just on business but on
the way every human being acts and lives around the world.
Rapaille’s breakthrough notion is that we acquire a silent system of
Codes as we grow up within our culture. These Codes—the Culture
Code—are what make us American, or German, or French, and they
invisibly shape how we behave in our personal lives, even when we are
completely unaware of our motives."
This link takes you to a lot of images of book titles. I find it
interesting at first glance how there are so many books on etiquette
and manners that are for different cultures around the world, a lot of
sport etiquette, work/business etiquette and then a lot for American
women…on how to be a woman.
https://www.google.com/search?q=a+handbook+on+etiquette&biw=1440&bih=802&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=EcHc7P1qhu-3qM%253A%252CxqX7A--aMCDjHM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kTGhwsUdhA-vNIK11ft9vXBkoyWpA&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjFqrCW5-rgAhUDqZ4KHWcSAYEQ9QEwC3oECAUQEg#imgrc=EcHc7P1qhu-3qM:
However, oh man, there was this…
https://www.artofmanliness.com/articles/the-anatomy-of-etiquette-how-to-be-an-old-school-gentleman-from-head-to-toe/
Here are some particulars of me, related to this topic -
I chose to share this because these two songs are as stated below.
Though I was expressing myself fully with words, my body (which had
betrayed me in so many ways by this point) was also fully involved.
Every part of my being. I believe music can hold all of these things
and that singing alone is a language unto itself, and that when we
share that, there is a collective language learned, a new language
that we can take part in, words or not.
This was when I had begun to sing again… A loss of faith and my most
beloved thing-my voice, a deepest question. A guttural outcry and
truly sad and genuine allowance of painful expression but maybe
perhaps a flicker of hope.
The first video was deep in the nothingness feeling, I did not feel
near as present as in the second. Perhaps I couldn't stand as close to
the pain in this. My voice, and subsequently my mental health, were
beginning to decline when this song was written. It was written in a
time of simultaneous extreme joy and fulfillment.
My words became simpler on Thankful, which was written after I had to
quit singing professionally for a time with only rare shows.
Venus Hum, Bella Luna (live musical performance)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uaq9L0v9aYA
Annette Strean-Cornelius, Thankful (live musical performance)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu-9l_-vM4A
I chose to share this because these two songs are as stated below.
Though I was expressing myself fully with words, my body (which had
betrayed me in so many ways by this point) was also fully involved.
Every part of my being. I believe music can hold all of these things
and that singing alone is a language unto itself, and that when we
share that, there is a collective language learned, a new language
that we can take part in, words or not.
This was when I had begun to sing again… A loss of faith and my most
beloved thing-my voice, a deepest question. A guttural outcry and
truly sad and genuine allowance of painful expression but maybe
perhaps a flicker of hope.
The first video was deep in the nothingness feeling, I did not feel
near as present as in the second. Perhaps I couldn't stand as close to
the pain in this. My voice, and subsequently my mental health, were
beginning to decline when this song was written. It was written in a
time of simultaneous extreme joy and fulfillment.
My words became simpler on Thankful, which was written after I had to
quit singing professionally for a time with only rare shows.
Venus Hum, Bella Luna (live musical performance)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uaq9L0v9aYA
Annette Strean-Cornelius, Thankful (live musical performance)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu-9l_-vM4A
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Jared's contributions:
I wanted to find a succinct article that conveyed all the information I wanted on microexpressions.
I also found this video I liked; it goes other interesting places toward the end.
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Kirk's contribution:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plains_Indian_Sign_Language#History . I don't think anyone
has brought up the fact that non-verbal communication is the only communication available to deaf people. The sign language of the Great Plains inspired the sign language in standard use today. It is spoken language independent. In Canada there are efforts to preserve it.
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Sabine's contribution:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfH3_kJv3MM
