Participación. Elementos de la comunicación. Ego

Ego —  What is it? What is its function?

  1. Self-defense mechanism: fight or flight.
  2. Attempts to take the best possible decision for our own comfort and physical integrity,
    according to the effort performed.
  3. By default, the ego looks for stability, preservation, NO RISKS, no creativity.
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Participación: elementos de la comunicación. Personalidad.

DIFFERENT approaches to the SAME situation. Each person IS different

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Participación: elementos de la comunicación. Mode

Mode (1) — face to face

  1. PLUS: personal relationships, casual encounters, easier to express oneself, bonds in different areas…
  2. MINUS: Much more costly in time, money, personal sacrifice; also environmentally.
  3. Unless highly profitable, both for the individuals and for the group, it will be hard to repeat such a meeting.
  4. It’s important to assess the efficiency vs. the cost, and looking at the pluses and minuses of having meetings in this mode vs. other alternatives.

Mode (2) — online

  1. PLUS:
    • All at once, or whenever one is able. 
    • Being away but as if very close. 
    • Shared documents. 
    • Shorter meetings focused
      in one or a few items at a time. 
    • Available highly productive tools,
      such as small groups, shared screen… 
    • Less expensive, and less cumbersome (logistics, housing, food…),
      less demanding to the individuals.
  2. MINUS:
    • It also has an environmental cost, although lower.
    • Some computer literacy is needes, as well as good social abilities.
  3. Online meetings should be very productive; if not, they end up fading away.
  4. It’s important to assess its efficiency, and looking at the pluses and minuses of having meetings in this mode vs. face to face
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Participación: elementos de la comunicación. Foco

Ability to focus — Attention span – 45-50 minutes

  1. 1.Why is it necessary? Increased involvement, creativity, listening, proposals, support, productivity…
  2. 2.In LESS THAN ONE HOUR, our attention decreases, however interested we may be.
    Our mind becomes less able to interact with others, the body needs a break (toilet, please :-D),
    we may start to get bored…
    And as a result it becomes more difficult to focus on the analysis or the project.
  3. 3.Attention, as any other resource, is something we can manage. If we know how.

How to manage attentiveness and keep it high

  1. Decreasing duration of meetings, and adding short breaks.
  2. Using tools that do not requiere too much attention or listening to a speaker, but movement and participation.
  3. Alternating deep subjects with lighter ones.
  4. Having meetings for just one important matter with tools that help keep the attention
    (more individual thinking, more participation, no debate or thinking mix…).
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Participación: elementos de la comunicación. Tiempo disponible. Available time

  1. As interested as I may be in any subject, there is a limit.
    For instance, we’re all interested in this training,
    and that’s why be spend 2 or 3 hours every day here together.
    But we’re probably not ready to devote 10 hours straight to it!
  2. It is therefore a limited (or very limited) resource,
    that we need to manage.
  3. It is usually limited by the place where we meet itself,
    by the time of the day at which we meet,
    and always by the attention span of the attendants.

A time that suits all of us?

  1. IN SYNCHRONY: All of us at the same time.
    Very difficult that we are all available at the same time.
    When we are, only for a very short time.
  2. NOT IN SYNCHRONY: Each one at his/her own time.
    Internet allows us to work on ONLINE documents where we can share our thoughts in a structured WAY.
    Each one puts as much time as s/he can, whenever s/he can.
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Participación: elementos de la comunicación. Observar y ser consciente.

Observing and being conscious of what happens around us to have a better understanding.

  1. Start with one minute of silence.
  2. Be conscious of your breathing (slow, deep).
  3. Listen twice as much as you speak.
  4. Seek first to understand, then to be understood. (Stephen Covey)
  5. Empathy: What has lead ME to think this way? What has lead HIM/HER to think this way?
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Participación: elementos de la comunicación. La motivación.

Building Blocks of Communication
Motivation to communicate with each other. Maslow Pyramid.

  1. Helping the others.
  2. Feeling good with what I do.
  3. Pushing an exciting, worthwhile project.
  4. Joining people I feel great with.
  5. ‘Personal motivations’… of the others.
    • You and I happen to have two different points of view.
    • When I give you my ‘objective’ ARGUMENTS,
      I’ll remove your ignorance and
      I’m sure you will certainly agree.
    • If not, I’ll then give you ‘objective’ DATA
       and you will then agree, for sure.
    • If you still don’t…
      Aha!!!
      You’re not being reasonable,
      and you’re denying my ‘objective’ arguments and information!!!
      You must have a HIDDEN AGENDA!!!
    • 5.And we ALL think this way! 😳 :-DDD
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Participación: elementos de la comunicación. Punto de partida.

Starting point in communication

  1. Are we having a discussion just for the pleasure of spending time together or…
  2. .…because we have a common project or purpose?
  3. If #2, we better consider the blocks with which we build a kind of communication…
  4. …that may have a positive impact in our lives or our purposes.
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«Todos dicen I love you» de Woody Allen

Enlaces a las entradas en Wikipedia de:
la película.
Woody Allen.

El próximo viernes 1 diciembre 2023 proyectamos en el CineForum Cabanillas, «Todos dicen I love You», 1996, de Woody Allen.
En castellano, como siempre, salvo aviso previo.

Contarnos la vida de una familia y las relaciones amorosas de todos ellos, jóvenes y menos jóvenes, le sirve a Allen para montar una comedia aceptable con algunos números musicales muy divertidos. Película coral, llena de actores conocidos que tienen su espacio para poder interpretar sin efectos especiales ni otras parafernalias.

Se nota la afición melómana del director, llenando la película de música de los años dorados de Hollywood. No es una película perfecta y se nota, pero es muy fácil dibujar muchas sonrisas imposibles de reprimir por lo simpático de las situaciones y los bailes tan ocurrentes.

Vamos, que aunque no te gusten las neurosis de Allen, este musical es para salir de la sala y del coloquio con ganas de sonreír y de vivir la vida y el momento. Ya es bastante para una película.

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«El jovencito Frankenstein» de ¿Mel Brooks? 1974

Estupenda crítica y análisis en Espinof.com, por Adrian Massanet.

Una de las mejores comedias del cine, seguramente:

  • porque se basaba en la película original «Frankenstein» de James Whale 1931, que era una adaptación de una obra de teatro que a su vez adaptaba el relato de Mary W. Shelley. Vamos, que el tratamiento de la historia y de personajes estaba más que trabajado.
  • porque es una conjunción parecida a la que hacía Billy Wilder con L.A. Diamond. Una colaboración entre Mel Brooks y Gene Wilder que dio unos frutos estupendos. En el caso de Brooks su humor nunca volvió a llegar a las cotas del Jovencito.

¿Por qué estar triste cuando puedes ver El Jovencito Frankenstein?
Resulta difícil hilvanar la comedia. Lubitsch decía que era una cuestión de ritmo, ni muy rápido ni muy lento. En este caso es una película casi extraña porque encadena una secuencia divertida detrás de otra y no decae. Uno piensa: ¿pero qué tomaron estos para que se les ocurriera tanta joroba, digo tontería???

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