CHAPTER ONE
Knowing Your Own Power Cues
Becoming Self-Aware and the Significance of Gesture
This chapter will explore how gesture establishes and regulates relationships and communications on several levels. It will discuss the work of psychologist Susan Goldin-Meadow on helping children learn through gesture and the surprising insights into the importance of gesture that resulted from her work. And it will describe the first step in communications mastery: taking inventory of your own gestures to become self-aware.
Let’s Rethink Our Communications
It’s time to rethink how we communicate. We now have a much clearer understanding of what people are up to when they commune with one another. Thanks to significant advances in brain science, we ...
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