Body Language - Arnold Library - Adult Learning

About this course

This course will demonstrate how people consciously and unconsciously signal their attitudes, desires and feelings through their body language.  

 Underpinned by scientific studies, this interesting and entertaining online course will teach you how to ‘read people’ and show you how to encode your own body language to your advantage

The course will look at the influence body language has on perception and communication. Covering first impressions, gestures, micro expressions, gravity-defying behaviour, intention signals, mirroring and matching, barriers, pacifiers and adaptors, the course will show how people leak their true feelings. 

  The course will feature illustrations, demonstrations, discussion and video analysis. 

 No previous knowledge is required. Just an interest in human behaviour. 

By the end of the course, you will: 

Learners will: 

• Be able to identify good and bad first impressions and know why… 

• Be able to distinguish between supposed universal facial expressions and non-universal ones. 

• Be able to describe how context, congruence, culture, changes and clusters can be used to read people. 

• Be able to interpret intention signals.  

• Be able to give examples of gravity-defying (and affected) behaviours and state their possible meaning.  

• Be able to identify examples of proxemics and haptics being applied. 

Myths will have been debunked as learners come to understand the difficulties of reading body language whilst understanding how to spot signs of comfort and discomfort.

Suggested Reading for the course: 

‘What Every Body is Saying’ by Joe Navarro 

‘Peoplewatching’ by Desmond Morris 

Booking your place and fee information

If you are in receipt of certain benefits you will be offered the course for free, however if you have a financial barrier which may prevent you from enrolling on the course, please visit our webpage for further information  https://www.inspireculture.org.uk/skills-learning/funding-your-courses/

To secure your place on the course BOTH the following must be done:

• Complete the EVENTBRITE BOOKING.
• Complete our INSPIRE ONLINE ENROLMENT FORM for each person attending the course.

You should be redirected to the Inspire Online Enrolment Form after completing the Eventbrite booking.  If you are not redirected, please use the link supplied in the Eventbrite booking confirmation email.

To book and enrol on one of our courses, you must have been living in England and have been resident in the UK for the past 3 years.

Some exceptions may apply if you are living in England with evidence of the right to remain and are from an EEU/EEAU country (completion of a questionnaire will be required).

As we no longer receive funding for our ESFA-funded courses for learners living in the devolved areas listed below, full cost fees would apply to these courses if you live in these areas:

• Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield 
• Cambridgeshire and Peterborough
• Greater London
• Greater Manchester
• Liverpool City Region
• Newcastle Upon Tyne, North Tyneside and Northumberland
• Tees Valley
• West of England
• West Midlands
• West Yorkshire

Any questions?

Check the FAQs page, or get in touch:

• By phone: 01623 677 200
• By email: learning@inspireculture.org.uk

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