An Innovative and Revolutionary Method Of Emotional Communication Based On Biological Process for Parenting
• BACKGROUND
Initially, PEM - discovered and developed by German director and playwright Stephan Perdekamp - provided actors and performers with a direct, effortless and guidable access to authentic emotions, independent from personal experiences or memories. It identified precise biological points (storehouses of emotions) responsible for emotions and how to generate emotions by exercising control over those biological areas. PEM works with an unheard-of simplicity and effectiveness in creating emotional depth and expressiveness from within the regions of the body.
• PARENTS AND COMMUNICATION -
As the PEM evolved, it identified the need to train Parents who are constantly communicating with impressionable minds and sending emotional signals wittingly or unwittingly to their Children. In the process,PEM distinguishes three levels of human communication as a basis for its process:
i) The Intellect - serves the purpose of communicating and processing (=understanding) abstract and cognitive occurrences
ii) The Body - is responsible for unconscious reactions and reflexes
iii) Emotions - defined as innate holistic muscular movement (action) patterns which are distinguished by their function and direction
Although a lot has changed in the cultural conception of man, until recently in the western cultures the intellect (as the sole seat of our self) has been communicatively overrated, the body has been regarded as completely subordinate to the intellect and emotions have been defined as disruptive opposition to the mind.
Due to this unequal emphasis in favour of the intellect, the lack of emotional techniques and support in the field of communication becomes clear and allegeable. The negative effects of a society that communicates exclusively on a rational basis become more and more apparent and ask for a new understanding of man, culture and communication.
• METHODOLOGY -
As per the PEM research, all three levels (intellect, body and emotion) must be acknowledged, practiced and equally utilised to ensure holistic (therefore authentic) communication. Only by combining all three levels can authentic communication be reached.
And an authentic communication is the key to Parenting : With emotional clarity, dealing with the children and their daily life becomes tangeable and will be registered holistically.
As explained in the case of training actors, PEM uses a similar methodology to train Parents to identify the three levels of communication, utilise them effectively and ensure meaningful, powerful and authentic communication with children and their problems.
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