SFP 10 – Seeing Interaction: Interview with Janet Beavin Bavelas

Janet Bavelas about microanalysis of face-to-face dialogue. In today’s episode of our SIMPLY FOCUS podcast, we talk with Janet Beavin Bavelas, Ph.D., F.R.S.C., Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University of Victoria, about what fascinates Janet about Solution Focus, what fascinates Janet about microanalysis (moment-by-moment analysis) of face-to-face dialogues, how she stayed curious to unfold and demystify all these things around communication, and what helped Janet to focus on the interaction even in times when people mainly focused on inner concepts and to start her career as a scientist on that. We talk about what she and her team see and see differently than others when they look at face-to-face dialogues moment-by-moment in microanalysis. Find out what calibration is, what is happening there and how that could be important for everyday conversations and for Solution Focus. Check out what changed for Janet since they wrote "Pragmatics of Human Communication" more than 50 years ago. Learn about hand gestures, facial gestures, and gaze and common misunderstandings around these co-speech gestures. Janet also talks about the overall goal of her research over the years and she challenges you in the challenge of the week: Look at one and the same conversation in two ways: First, look at only one person and start thinking hard about what’s going on in the person's mind, look at what the person is feeling, why she/he is doing what she/he does, what the person is thinking, focus completely on the individual. Go and get a coffee and afterwards look at the same conversation again. Look only at what’s happening between the people. What you are looking for has to be what somebody does observably - physically or vocally - that the other person would notice and that was aimed at the other person, that would effect the other person.

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