Exploring Your Creative Genius: Episode 123
I enjoyed having Judy Batista on the show last week. She’ll tell you about the work she accomplishes through Laughing Monitos; you’ll enjoy her enthusiasm and I’ve got her contact information below.
As we spoke about the fundamental importance of children having confidence in their speech Judy briefly touched on how much meaning is communicated physically, which is a topic I’ve been reading about over the last couple of years.
Physical movements aren’t only accompaniments to communication, they are communication. A slouched posture or an open-armed welcoming conveys meaning as directly, maybe even more directly, than words. When faced with an angry gesture I don’t need, in order to understand it, to recall the feelings I felt when I acted that way. We don’t see anger as something behind the gesture, we read anger in it, it is anger itself.
When you extend your hand to help the gesture is kindness, not a symbol of it.
Studies show that 55% of emotional intent is communicated by body language.
So in a world overwhelmed by digital noise, physical gestures ground us. The philosopher Merleau-Ponty who I discovered in the great book ‘The Spell of the Sensuous’ observed “The body understands the world before the mind explains it.” Cool.
Judy’s contact info:
- Laughing Monitos, LLC
- ‘Supporting Early Speech and Language Development Through Play’
- Judy Batista, M.S. CCC-SLP, Bilingual Speech-Language Pathologist
- 919 904-4467
- laughingmonitos@gmail.com
- www.laughingmonitos.com
- Instagram @laughingmonitos
- Facebook facebook.com/laughingmonitos
- LinkedIn Laughing Monitos
“Exploring Your Creative Genius” takes an expansive view on what it means to be creative and entrepreneurial in an ongoing conversation led by Carl Nordgren — entrepreneur, novelist, and lifelong student with decades of experience growing his own creative capacity and assisting others to do the same in exciting new ways!
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