Despite a bitterly cold morning we had a surprisingly good attendance at our January meeting and Val Hewett welcomed over 40 members and 2 visitors to hear Kate Bradford talk about Body Language. But first we had the usual WI business.
Our delegate to the Resolutions meeting reported that many interesting and worthwhile ideas had been suggested but a decision had yet to made as to which ones would be submitted for discussion later in the year.
An appeal was made for double knitting wool and more knitters for the Peace
Blanket members were making, and a member reported that her quilting group had just sent off 2 bags of cot quilts for babies who are in prison with their mothers. We had also received letters of thanks for 2 donations we had recently made.
Our guest speaker Kate Bradford , a teacher of adults , had by a lucky accident added Body Language to her repertoire of talks. It was lucky for us too as she forced us to look at ourselves anew. How do other people see us?
Our very postures, tilt of head, hand gestures, movement of eyebrows, crossing of legs or arms, hair twirling and a host of other body movements can indicate whether we are confident, superior and in control or diffident,uncertain and socially inept. Even distance we stand from each other when conversing can denote warmth or hostility. Interviewers ,of course, are trained to make good use of body language. When intervewing they can tell by the way someone walks into a room, sits, listens, twiddles etc whether they havethe potential needed. The talk was a great success, most entertaining and certainly gave us food for thought.
Questions were taken and the meeting closed with a reminder that instead of the scheduled talk on February 4th Ruth Daniel will speak on the subject of Easter Island.
0 comments:
Post a Comment