Search This Blog

Great Speeches at the March for Our Lives,

    I started teaching public speaking when I was 20 years old and a graduate student at Auburn University. The students speeches amazed me!
    Here are some of the amazing things students said today in their protest speeches at The March for Our Lives.
    it’s leaders, skeptics and cynics who told us to sit down and stay silent: Wait your turn,” Mr. Kasky said. “Welcome to the revolution.”
    Another speaker, Edna Chavez, 17, a high school senior in Los Angeles, said she had lost her brother to gun violence. “Ricardo was his name. Can you all say it with me?” she asked.
    The crowd said his name over and over again, as Ms. Chavez smiled through tears.
    Alex Wind, 17, a junior at Stoneman Douglas, spoke about the need for legislative change.
    “To all the politicians out there, if you take money from the N.R.A., you have chosen death,” he said. “If you have not expressed to your constituents a public stance on this issue, you have chosen death. If you do not stand with us by saying we need to pass common sense gun legislation, you have chosen death. And none of the millions of people marching in this country today will stop until they see those against us out of office, because we choose life.”
    Hundreds of thousands of protesters, outraged by a recent school shooting, took to the streets in Washington and around the world, calling for action against gun violence.
    NYTIMES.COM
    LikeShow more reactions
    Comment
    Comments

    LikeShow more reactions
    Reply3d
    For the kids. The song I wrote the day of the Parkland shooting and sang through tears. I am reposting the song today.
    74 Views
    LikeShow more reactions
    Comment
    A friend just showed this to me. It just came out.
    I did the interview for this piece on cultural differences in body language months ago.
    I have to try and find the print version! I have a door hon this. My greatest challenge and fun as a speaker is doing my two day public speaking g class with only one or two members of the class who speak English! I had one class with miners from five different countries, my small groups were speaking German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. Everyone tells you that Humor does not translate but my goodness whenever I do these programs we laugh all day long!
    Body language has four times more impact than words do, so make sure yours is saying the right things...
    CNTRAVELLERME.COM
    Comments
    I read the body language of Melania and Trump for Life and Style Magazine. I haven't been posting all my Trump reads, but I thought i would post this interesting couple photos.
    Body language expert weighs in on Donald Trump and Melania Trump's new Instagram pic outside of the White House.
    LIFEANDSTYLEMAG.COM
    LikeShow more reactions
    Comment
    Comments
    I read the Chinese President XI's body language as he took his oath of office for the South Chinese News.
    When I do body language reads for foreign publications I don't always get the link to the story, in this case it will come out in print. So here are my rough notes.
    In the video you can skip to his oath, though i think the highly stiff and tense pomp and circumstance is fascinating!
    Xi Jinping on Saturday became the first Chinese state leader to take a constitutional oath, as the country’s president and head of its military. The ceremony – which took…
    SCMP.COM
    LikeShow more reactions
    Comment
    Comments
    Group Narscicicm.
    As many of you know as a body language expert I write and speak to my corporate clients about about honesty, integrity and credibility as well as deception, narcissism and psychopathology. I am working on a chapter in my book about how other people respond and interact to the "dark triad behaviors like Malignant Narcissism and it struck me that most people don't understand how a group can tolerate a Narcissists in their midst. Someone they know is "crazy" a...
    Continue Reading
    LikeShow more reactions
    Comment
    Comments
    Jenn Downs This explains how so many rotten people thrive in bands...
    Manage
    LikeShow more reactions
    Reply4d
    I did the read of Trump and Melania on the winter photo.
    Body language expert weighs in on Donald Trump and Melania Trump's new Instagram pic outside of the White House.
    LIFEANDSTYLEMAG.COM
    LikeShow more reactions
    Comment
    How did this baby who toddled around the Taylor house get so tall!
    LikeShow more reactions
    Comment
    Comments
    Patti Wood Hey Michael
    Manage
    LikeShow more reactions
    Reply5d
    Ahhhh Will just sent a photo he took of me playing an electric guitar for the first time!
    Always start on a Fender!!
    Though playing rocking version Leaving on Jet Plane, the one song I know by heart was a stretch!!!
    LikeShow more reactions
    Comment
    Comments
    Patti Wood Diane Polledri, have you played an Electric Guitar?
    Manage
    LikeShow more reactions
    Reply5d
    Diane Polledri No I never have. You look terrific!
    Manage
    LikeShow more reactions
    Reply5d
    LikeShow more reactions
    Reply5d
    Patti Wood Linda, 
    Give me two years and I will rock in the hip music scene in Athens! In my dreams.
    Manage
    LikeShow more reactions
    Reply5dEdited
    Skipped lunch to prep for two Media interviews, kicked it on a a new song in a session with Eliot, went to the grocery store to buy ingredients for dinner I am fixing for friends tomorrow night. I bought a box of ice cream bars for a treat.
    They were delicious!
    All four of them!
    ...See More
    LikeShow more reactions
    Comment
    Comments
    Carolyn Tucker This makes me love you!
    Manage
    LikeShow more reactions
    Reply5d
    LikeShow more reactions
    Reply5d
    Sue McDuffie Leave no bar behind
    Manage
    LikeShow more reactions
    Reply5d
    Patti Wood shared a memory.
    I remember the first time I had you all over to my house!
    Having a few wonderful friends over for a quiet dinner party. Beautiful.
    LikeShow more reactions
    Comment
    Comments
    While I was in the studio this week working on my EP Will gave me a lesson on mixing. ( He teaches production at Berkly ! I am learning g from
    A master!) Here is my voice on Sisters of Secrets and Shadows. I posted that song a few weeks ago. I’m learning so much about communicating what I hear in my head for my songs and how to make it come alive in the studio!
    I love how it’s effected my speeches! I am on fire!!
    Comments
    Brian Theoret You rock Patti!
    Manage
    Reply1w
    Awesome day in the studio this week working on my second EP. Will played two different fender guitars on my songs Smoke From Spark. He is amazing!.
    I got the idea to have the sound of a match lighting in the song so we got to play with matches!! (Don’t tell my mom.)
    Creativity is on fire!
    I did this story this morning for The Independent. So fun when a story get millions of hits. Her Alpha cues in the photo are over the top. I feel it important to read “Grumps” body language, but today was a nice break!
    Celebrities receive a lot of scrutiny when they grace the red carpet, especially when they arrive as a pair. As one of the most famous couples on the planet, it should come…
    INDEPENDENT.CO.UK
    Comments
    Colette Carlson How wonderful!
    Manage
    Reply1w
    Just found an article I am quoted in. Sometimes publications find other articles I have been quoted in to create their article.
    It's not what you say, it's how you say it. It's a cliché, but it's true. Body language is a crucial part of communicating. The way you act can warp the entire meaning of what you're saying....
    FRESHENITUP.ORG
    Will and I are doing something new in the studio on my secound EP. Yesterday we were reworking my song "Crazy Making" and he asked me to send hom videos of the music I thought of when I wrote it. I had two diverse influences one a "Stand by the piano in a smokey cocktail bar wearing a long dress and white gloves like Diane Washington and the other was a country version ala Patsy Cline. We recorded the country version and I realized as much as I loved the music it didn't fit t...
    See More
    From the album "My Gentleman Friend" - 1959
    YOUTUBE.COM
    Hi all. There’s s name for a placement of our article on s a newspaper called “ Above the fold” meaning that your story is on first page at the top. I love that spot. Also in magazines or newspaper articles you want your name and your book mention to be first expert mentioned in the article. Love that spot too! Got it !!!
    #8 is so telling.
    GOODHOUSEKEEPING.COM
    Hi all. My insights on “Signs Your Marriage is in Trouble” is going live. I will put the link in my next post. The posts with links rarely hit anyone’s feed since the new agolrythmd came out.
    Comments
    This new study says that Cleaning makes you happier. I am a generous person. I would like to offer my house! Call me and come on over clean it from top to bottom and get happy! In fact, I want you to stay happy. Come twice a week!
    People who keep a clean home are not only happier, but more relaxed and focused than those who are messy, a new survey finds. What's more: children in cleaner…
    STUDYFINDS.ORG
    Comments
    Patti Wood Hi Myra! Your up late with the storm too, I just finished a song! I found a new super cool restaurant. Let’s do dinner soon.
    Manage
    Reply1w

A Traveler's Guide To Body Language Around The Globe

I did the interview for this piece on cultural differences in body language months ago. I have to try and find the print version! I have a door on this. My greatest challenge and fun as a speaker is doing my two day public speaking class with only one or two members of the class who speak English! I had one class with miners from five different countries, my small groups were speaking German, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese. Everyone tells you that humor does not translate but my goodness whenever I do these programs we laugh all day long!


Body Language And Charisma, Patti Wood (pattiwood.net) says, “In the West, the sense of self is external rather than internal, which means the body is perceived as extending into the space around it.” In Asia and more crowded cultures, the sense of self is internal, “so they might be around a tea truck and there might be five people on top of each other; to internal-thinking cultures, this crowding is absolutely normal and seen as friendly.” These fundamental differences are crucial to be aware of to avoid breaking rules and to ensure your own personal comfort.
There’s also auditory space. During a trip to Paris, Wood, an American, was forewarned that it’s a faux pas to gab in a train cabin. Upon boarding, she was noticed by a fellow American who wanted to bond. “This person is talking to me and I’m trying to find a way to kindly shut them down – and sure enough, everyone on the train was staring at us, probably thinking, ‘Those incredible, rude Americans.’”.... More at the link below




Patti Wood, MA - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com.
     

Donald and Melania Trump Both "Hiding Anger" in the photo on instagram

Since news came to light that President Donald Trump had an affair with porn star Stormy Daniels while married to his wife, Melania Trump, all eyes have been on the first family's current relationship. Body language expert Patti Wood exclusively told Life & Style what she thinks of the FLOUTS' latest Instagram pic from outside of the White House — and it sounds like trouble.
Several aspects of their behavior are interesting. Notice how he is facing fully towards the camera so you could have her cut out of the photo edit wouldn’t really affect him? Well, she is angled towards him in a position that is half of what I call a love the weight with each partner angles towards their partner Ideally to create a V but he’s not playing," Patti shared.
"[Melania] is smiling — there’s a strain to the effort she makes, but she is smiling. His smile is very unusual. It’s over the top, stretched out wide," she continued, comparing his facial expression to a "Jack Nicholson-maniacal grin." Another thing the Snap: Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language & Charisma author found interesting were the looks in both of their eyes. "Look how similar that look in the eyes are," she explained. "That’s hidden anger, and their eyes are both showing hidden anger — they're matching and mirroring hidden anger."
Not this photo the one on Instagram.

http://www.lifeandstylemag.com/posts/donald-trump-melania-trump-white-house-instagram-156645http://www.lifeandstylemag.com/posts/donald-trump-melania-trump-white-house-instagram-156645






Patti Wood, MA - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com.
     

Body Language Signs Your Relationship Is In Trouble Changes That Indicate Your Relationship Is In Trouble

I am working on a media request for tips if your relationship is in a slump or there is conflict.
Here are my rough notes....So many habits/rituals in a relationship are comforting, but when you’re fighting repeating the same rituals, interactions and activities can take you down a path towards another fight. Changing environments and changing nonverbal interactions changes the neural pathways in the brain and can lead to more positive interactions. I suggest changes that you repeat over a long period of time, not just a date night change. You're working on changing ingrained patterns, laying down new muscle memories and laying down new neural pathways in the brain so you want to repeat the new, happier rituals so they create happier interactions till they become new habits. This is also based on the theory of 21 that shows if you repeat a behavior for 21 days it becomes a habit.
For example, if you don’t typically run, hug and kiss each other when you come home try some new loving touching fun greeting ritual when you see each other. Even if you have to act or push yourself a bit to do it.
If you eat every meal together in the same place, change it up. Eat breakfast in the middle of the bed, eat dinner on a blanket on the floor, have lunch outside on a bench. Change it up. I mean for a while, not just a date night change.
If you watch TV or your lap top screens every night, unplug, both of you for a long stretch, at least seven straight days. You’re going to create some tension without that distraction, but you can also create excitement and intimacy. If you can’t take nighttime screen watching out entirely at least take it completely in any form out of the bedroom.
Change who cooks and who cleans up. Completely reverse roles, without criticizing or correcting your partner for doing their new job wrong. (There is a challenge!) It's not fair for the cooking partner to buy food if their partner typically cooks, instead switch out completely.
Take turns tucking your partner into bed, by getting all the little things they like to do before bed ready, like a glass of water or book and literally bring the blanket up to their chin and kiss them and wish them a good sleep. Each partner does this for their partner for a week, so each gets a week of tender night night care. Kissing, backrubs and sweet songs sung are highly recommended.
I have more….

LikeShow more reactions
Patti Wood, MA - The Body Language Expert. For more body language insights go to her website at www.PattiWood.net. Check out Patti's website for her new book "SNAP, Making the Most of First Impressions, Body Language and Charisma" at www.snapfirstimpressions.com.