Confident Conversations Workshop 2.0
I like designing new workshops and working on new ideas as much as possible. So far, I’ve only repeated one course within the Queen’s University Open Learning Programme. That was my 1-day workshop called Body to Body: How To Communicate Without Words. Read about it here. Now, I intend to add to this repeated course hall of fame. On Saturday, 31 May 2008 I delivered a...
Read MoreBody Language With Benji
If you’re an 80s child like me, you’ll remember Benji, Zax and the Alien Prince. It was a kids sci-fi series about the earth-bound adventures of a dork, a droid, and a disgustingly cute dog called Benji. Benji went on to star in other series and films of his own. In all of them, he repeatedly showed that cutie-pie ‘I’m a little, stray puppy-wuppy, pretty please be...
Read MoreSex and Self-Defence
Indian sex workers learn karate says the title of the article. I am unimpressed. Prostitutes in an Indian state have started taking karate lessons to help protect themselves against violent pimps and ‘customers’. If you go to the article, there is a short film of them in training. Natural feelings of sympathy for their plight are compounded. The training will serve them...
Read MoreExtreme Body Language!
Twice now I’ve taught a course at Queen’s University on body language. It’s been my most successful course, numbers-wise. So you could say that I’m ‘into’ the subject. I’m interested in it. I believe in it. I use it. But maybe I’m having second thoughts. Why? Because of a recent BBC news article, that’s why. The troubling piece...
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