Social Performance

What do we need to be successful in our everyday encounters with other people? How do we make friends, get on well with our colleagues, or make a positive impact on new acquaintances?

In our everyday lives we have various roles and face a diverse number of role expectations. Sometimes we feel uneasy about this and not completely in accordance with the picture we have of ourselves and would like to represent. In this workshop you learn to play your everyday „roles“ more effectively, more confidently and authentically and have more fun playing them. The aim is to learn to broaden both our „role-repertoire“ and our English repertoire.

(Note: This seminar will be held in English but your English does NOT have to be perfect to attend!)

Workshop Goals

In this seminar you will

• discover the role(s) you play in everyday life and how the positive aspects of your personality can be strengthened,
• learn alternative ways to react to people who make you feel offended, ignored or unfairly treated, and
• above all, learn how to deal with your everyday communication challenges with more HUMOUR and SPONTANEITY.

Workshop Content

• What impression do I make on others and what impression do they make on me?
• How can I become emotionally more dynamic and improve the effectiveness of my actions and words?
• How can I react in challenging interpersonal situations?

All registered participants will be informed of the location by email one week before the event.

This workshop is open to a limited number of participants. The registration deadline is 13 October 2014.

Please note that you should notify us before the registration deadline if you are unable to attend the workshop. Otherwise the full fee will be charged.
Please let the Personnel Development and Planning Office know if you will not be attending. There are often waiting lists for the workshops, and this will give one of your colleagues the chance to attend. In addition, if we can fill the vacancy with someone from the waiting list, no cancellation charges will apply for you.

To sign up for this workshop, please click "Register" at the bottom of this page. For any further information please contact Elke Rittersbacher ( elke.rittersbacher@wu.ac.at, DW 4448).

The course fee is €20.

Trainer

Jenny Simanowitz, B.A., Lit.Hons. L.T.C.L. Trainer - Performer - Moderator (English Native-Speaker) Jenny Simanowitz was born in South Africa and studied Literature and Drama in Cape Town and London before becoming a teacher and performer. She has been living and working in Austria since 1993 and has been a regular lecturer at the WU for over seven years. Her emphasis lies in group dynamic processes, how we relate to others on a conscious and unconscious level and how we can use humour as one of the fundamentals of successful relationships. Jenny Simanowitz’ work has been strongly influenced by improvisation theatre (Theatresport) as well as by the provocative therapist Frank Farrelly. She was a founder member of the Positive Psychology Centre at Warwick University, England and has published a collection of her exercises and games in a book “100 Außergewöhnliche Stimmungsmacher (Ökotopia 2008). Her new book on social performance will be published in 2015.