CC-Workshop "Body language"

by Franziska Trischler

Wednesday 13 Aug 2025, 09:00 → 17:00 Europe/Berlin

H1/WL-Saal (IPP Garching)

postponed to 13 August 2025

How to avoid interruptions without being overly dominant? How to explain that the very same behaviour is interpreted by one interlocutor as rude, by the other as submissive? When two people engage in a conversation or dispute, two bodies talk to each other, too. And they speak their own language. 

Your body’s language is far more complex than some guidebooks would like us to think, but it is observable and changeable. Thus it is a very important rhetorical instrument worth knowing more about. 

This workshop provides basic knowledge about physical expression and trains observational and implementation skills. The participants learn to consciously perceive and influence their own behaviour, to anticipate the effects of the behaviour of others and develop new strategies to conduct conversations more successfully. 

The workshop focuses on: 

• Basics of body language: Body signals and their function in interactions
• Keep an eye on yourself: My own accustomed body expression
• Gender-specific differences at work: Which action perspectives open up to me?
• Enrich your repertoire: Different communication styles
• Use territorial markers: The effects of spatial arrangement
• Techniques of body awareness: Thoughts, emotion and non-verbal expressions
• Body language: My next steps 

 

The trainer: Franziska Trischler, Freiburg, was born in the United States, moved to Germany in her early childhood and earned her degree in Sprechwissenschaft [speech science and interpersonal communication] in 2009. She has been working as a freelance communication trainer for 15 years, giving individual lessons, workshops and seminars in the areas of rhetoric, voice training and performative arts. She is also an academic staff member for speech and interpersonal communication at the Pädagogische Hochschule in Freiburg i.Br. and has worked as a lecturer for various universities. 

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