Maroutchka 

Body language: what is your body communicating to me an what is my body communicating to you? We really make judgements based on body language, whether you are aware of this or not. It is a language everybody speaks, but only a few know what it means. I want to learn more about how we behave and especially what it means. Whether it is to adjust my own body or it is to read people bttr. It's always interesting to learn more about the subject.

Amy Cuddy begins her presentation by confronting the audience with their position. They need to think about how they are sitting and they need to change that for 2 minutes.

After showing a few pictures she explains that it is only natural for us to throw our hands in the air when we feel powerful and happy. There is a lot of power in making yourself big. In addition to this people tend to make themselves small when they don’t feel as powerful. Crossing your hands an legs to make yourself small and making sure you don’t bump in to the person next to you. Studies have shown that in a conversation we complement the others verbals. So when someone is making himself very big, the other person will automatically feel small.

We know that our non-verbal govern how we feel about others, but do our non-verbal govern how we think and feel about ourselves? Studies have shown that when you pretend to be powerfull, you actually begin to feel powerful.

Powerfull people have a low stresslevel and a high level of testosterone. There is evidence that your body can shape your mind. They devided a group of people into two groups. The fist one has to take on high power poses during 2 minutes. The others have to do lower power poses. After some tests you could immediately see the drop of testosterone and an increase of your stresslevel with the people that did lower poses.   

Nextly she started talking about her own experience with powerposing. She was getting rather emotional and it was inspiring to hear her personal story. It all began with a carcrash and as a result of that: losing her identity. With this part she gave me so much inspiration. I want to start doing powerposes right now.