Hi there,
I have had pretty interesting experience last weekend. Our company has organized a 2-day workshop about "Self-presentation and communicative competence skills". The workshop was held by two professional psychologists. One of them is also a hobby clown. Additionally she works in psychiatry with personally disturbed children. She meant that playing a clown helps one to realise and to resolve her own inner blockades (inner critics). In these two days we have done many comic improvisations, that nobody of us have done before, for example: two of us were asked to go to the "scene" and play two beans in the fridge :) In this exercise we were supposed to overwhelm our inner importance/fear of making something wrong and to improvise a more or less meaningful discussion of two beans in front of the other people which we were not acquainted with (there were approximately 15 people present). Another exercise that stuck in my mind was: a person was asked to go the "scene" and remain silent while other people were applauding for 5 minutes.
Since one of the psychologists mentioned that she works in psychiatry I came to her and asked whether she is acquainted with the phenomenon of psychopathy. Strangely enough she can't tell much about that and whether she ever met a psychopath in her practice but she was quite interested in the way I see it (I tried to explain her that in the way that is represented by the SOTT/Forum). I've recommended her the Forums's psychopathy books list and that's all.
What do you think about that exercises?
Greets
Altair
*mod note: spelling corrected as requested*
I have had pretty interesting experience last weekend. Our company has organized a 2-day workshop about "Self-presentation and communicative competence skills". The workshop was held by two professional psychologists. One of them is also a hobby clown. Additionally she works in psychiatry with personally disturbed children. She meant that playing a clown helps one to realise and to resolve her own inner blockades (inner critics). In these two days we have done many comic improvisations, that nobody of us have done before, for example: two of us were asked to go to the "scene" and play two beans in the fridge :) In this exercise we were supposed to overwhelm our inner importance/fear of making something wrong and to improvise a more or less meaningful discussion of two beans in front of the other people which we were not acquainted with (there were approximately 15 people present). Another exercise that stuck in my mind was: a person was asked to go the "scene" and remain silent while other people were applauding for 5 minutes.
Since one of the psychologists mentioned that she works in psychiatry I came to her and asked whether she is acquainted with the phenomenon of psychopathy. Strangely enough she can't tell much about that and whether she ever met a psychopath in her practice but she was quite interested in the way I see it (I tried to explain her that in the way that is represented by the SOTT/Forum). I've recommended her the Forums's psychopathy books list and that's all.
What do you think about that exercises?
Greets
Altair
*mod note: spelling corrected as requested*
