Transcript May 7, 2007 - Lebe Dein Stottern Ist nicht das halbe Leben ein

Stuttering –
Problem or Challenge for People who Stutter and Society?
Thoughts about the Role of People who Stutter in the Society
Saxony
Dresden
Drežďany
Dresde
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Michael Winkler
Member of BVSS, LV Sächsische Stotterer-Selbsthilfe (LVSS)
Stottererselbsthilfe Dresden
(Self-helping group for People who Stutter)
Michael
Winkler
Cavtat
May 7, 2007
Telford
Sep 9, 2007
PRO VOCE – Gesellschaft für Kommunikation und Sprache e.V.
8th World Congress
For People Who Stutter
Dubrovnik/Cavtat - May 7, 2007
12th BSA National Conference
Telford - September 9, 2007
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Short Introduction … Who I am?
Michael Winkler
 born 1975 in Karl-Marx-Stadt (today Chemnitz) – former GDR
 in 1982 – first class – a teacher told me that I stuttered
 several speech therapists, no stationary treatment/therapy –
„much of“ self therapy
 Author of some articles in the “Kieselstein“
(journal of the BVSS – Association for PWS in Germany)
Michael
Winkler
Cavtat
May 7, 2007
Telford
Sep 9, 2007
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Interests: Public Relations
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Causes & psychological reasons of
stuttering, meaning of stuttering
presently PhD student at
the TU Dresden (Cartography)
consider myself as almost “cured” (“healed”)
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Me (aged 16, 1991)
(“lectures“, radio, TV -> plans for future)
MDR, 20.01.2006
Index of the Presentation
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The Stuttering Person and Society
(Self-perception, problems in self-helping groups)
Stammering & Stuttering
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Going back: “What actually is Stuttering?”
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Positive (and negative)
Aspects – mental
Advantages
(and
“stammeln”
challenge
?
German
Disadvantages) –not
ofknowing
Stuttering
what to say
(Famous PWS, Stuttering as a Path, Stuttering as an Indicator etc.)
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“stottern”
psychic challenge ?
Chief Cause “Fear”?
… (if time allows)
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Practical things …
Michael
Winkler
Cavtat
May 7, 2007
Telford
Sep 9, 2007
not being able to say what one wants to say
Questions & Discussion
The Stuttering Person and Society
The Stuttering Person as Human Being
Human Being
Stuttering
Being with
a multitude
of capabilities &
characteristics
Michael
Winkler
Cavtat
May 7, 2007
Telford
Sep 9, 2007
Stutterer, stuttering person or stuttering human being?
The Stuttering Person and Society
The Human Being as Stuttering Person
Human
Being
Stuttering
Being with
a multitude
of capabilities &
characteristics
Michael
Winkler
Cavtat
May 7, 2007
Telford
Sep 9, 2007
1. As what/who do I consider myself?
2. How does „the society“ look at me as a PWS?
Acceptance
Michael
Winkler
Cavtat
May 7, 2007
Telford
Sep 9, 2007
What is (does)
Cure (mean)?
Healing / Curing?
Degree of „Cure“
THE TWO PHASES
(Faces)
OF STUTTERING
The Society and I (the PWS)
Feeling of Isolation?
Disturbed Acceptance?
Disturbed
SELF-perception?
Using ideas from the PR branch –
Edward L. Bernays “Propaganda” (1928)
Acceptance
Stutterer/
Modern Stuttering
business must have its finger continuously on the public
Society
pulse. It Person/
must understand the changes in the public mind and be
prepared Human
to interpret itself fairly and eloquently toNo
changing
direct
Being
Public Relations &
opinion.
Awareness raising
Influence/Power
Chapter „Business and the Public“, p. 107
Civilization is limited by inertia.
Michael
Winkler
Cavtat
May 7, 2007
Telford
Sep 9, 2007
Not enough (own) PR?
Chapter „Propaganda and SocialToo
Service“,
147
little p.
(own)
Therapy,
SHG, etc.
Internet-Download:
Acceptance?
Positive
Change of
Consciousness
Edward
L. Bernays
www.soilandhealth.org/03sov/0303critic/030332.bernays.propaganda.pdf
(1891-1995)
Definitions – What is Stuttering?
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Stuttering [(lat. balbuties)], also known as stammering in the
United Kingdom, is a speech disorder in which the flow of speech is
disrupted
bycan
involuntary
repetitions
and backwards
prolongations of sounds,
„We
understand
life
only
syllables, words or phrases; and involuntary silent pauses or blocks
but must
live it to
forwards.
“
in which the stutterer
is unable
produce sounds.
Definition according to Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuttering)
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Michael
Winkler
Cavtat
May 7, 2007
Telford
Sep 9, 2007
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813 - 1855)
Danish
philosopher,
and writer
Stuttering is
another
way to theologian
speak.
Stuttering is a corrective for the unconscious use and conscious
misuse of speaking in the societal life; … [just like not being able to
talk for mute people.]
own definition
Causes (passive) - PAST
WHY?
What am I doing right here, right now? -
PRESENT
Meaning, Use (active) - FUTURE
Positive & negative Aspects of Stuttering
Famous PWS …
Moses, Aristoteles, Demosthenes, Claudius, I. Newton,
T. Jefferson, L. Carroll, C. Darwin, F. Kafka, M. Monroe,
Scatman John, J. Updike, B. Willis (healed), R. Atkinson (“Mr. Bean“),
J. Roberts, N. Gallagher (Oasis), G. Gates …
Michael
Winkler
Cavtat
May 7, 2007
Telford
Sep 9, 2007
Successful despite or because of their stuttering?
Positive (& negative) Aspects of Stuttering –
Advantages and Disadvantages
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Better listeners?
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Fear of exams mainly focussed on speech? ”Bonus“ of pity/sympathy?
•
easier to get a withdrawal from (army) service?
•
sympathetic (showing weaknesses), cute, charming, ”sexy“ (!?)
•
better self-perception and analysis?
•
watches his/her fellow men more intensive
(but interprets the information “wrongly” – not advantageously – very often)
•
Stuttering as sign post? … (“Where fear is, there is the path …“)
•
”easier“ self-search and – in the end – self-discovery?
Michael
Winkler
•
”stop of thoughts“ – involuntarily into a meditative situation?
Cavtat
May 7, 2007
•
Rolandisches Operculum – malfunction or advancement?
Telford
Sep 9, 2007
Fear and Stuttering
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Michael
Winkler
Cavtat
May 7, 2007
Telford
Sep 9, 2007
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Fear can appear in various and sometimes very subtle forms
„First
of all I believe important
 self-perception (and
honesty/sincerity)
that nothing is impossible,
and at the same time
Fear of
I could question everything.”
- illness and death  question “Am I feeling ‘too good‘?“
“Perfect
balance” ? …
- unemployment What
 tooismuch
work
“A 
perfect
yogi can
have strong imagination
- boredom
(negative)
stress
equally
strong
reason.”
- being lonesomeand
 too
much
closeness
- getting “fat”  getting
slim (fear
of “starving” )
Sri Aurobindo
(1872-1950)
- speaking 
not revolutionary,
speaking (fear
of silence
even)mystic
Indian
writer,
philosopher,
„There
is no courage
without fear.“
Aim: Equilibrium
- Balance
www.filousophie.de
Practical things & …
Making a survey on stuttering, 2006
•
techniques to modify your speech & speaking
(soft use of voice, voluntary stuttering, etc. – e.g. van Riper, Hausdörfer, Richter)
•
„Love,
and knowledge
reduction of fear by PR
work work
/ awareness
raising
are the well-springs of our life.
They should also govern it.”
(information booth, InVivo exercises such as surveys, using the radio etc. – W. Wendlandt)
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Literature (about stuttering, psychology, sociology, philosophy, fiction, ”esoteric“ books, etc.)
•
Going abroad („get away“ from the
used social
environment)
Austrian
researcher
•
Michael
Winkler
Cavtat
May 7, 2007
Telford
Sep 9, 2007
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Wilhelm Reich (1897-1957)
(physics, psychoanalysis,
Freudomarxism,
etc.)
Breathing- and relaxation
exercises, Yoga
(asanas, meditation),
Biomeditation (Viktor Philippi – www.biomez.de), family constellations, etc.
Not forgetting: DISTANCE to the things (letting go)
focus on SUCCESSES
HUMOUR (laugh about oneself)
LOVE for yourself and others
… and again (own) Theory …
The Human Being and Society
Stuttering
person
Family
Society
„Collectivization“
Tradition etc.
Urbanisation
Transition
Matriarchy/
Patriarchy, etc.
Michael
Winkler
Cavtat
May 7, 2007
Telford
Sep 9, 2007
Stuttering
person
Individualisation (Ego)
Capitalism
Emancipation, etc.
Family
Separation
(Ego)
Society
new
form of
Society
Society
Family
Stuttering
Person &
Family &
Society
Stuttering
GesellFamilie
person
schaft
Collectivization
so-called Socialism
(failed so far)
Dissolving
the borders
Last but not least …
At the Beginning of the 21th Century
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technical changes <->
changing human beings
e.g. Telephone (flatrate), radio, television, Internet
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Transformation of the „Labour world“
How dounemployment,
I change myself/get
changed?
e.g. so-called
basicIincome
Will I be changed at all?
Advantages/Disadvantages?
Michael
Winkler
Cavtat
May 7, 2007
Telford
Sep 9, 2007
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…
Challenges & chances
for people who stutter?
Example for a
Awareness Raising Campagne
Michael
Winkler
Cavtat
May 7, 2007
Telford
Sep 9, 2007
I stuttered.
Last but not least … some quotations
We don‘t teach values, we live them.
Wir lehren keine Werte, wir leben sie.
Original author unknown
We can‘t teach what we don‘t know.
Michael
Winkler
Cavtat
May 7, 2007
Telford
Sep 9, 2007
Wir können nicht lehren, was wir nicht wissen.
(www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3626/is_200007/ai_n8892650)
Thank you very much for your attention
… Questions? – Feel free to ask …
Bundesvereinigung der Stottererselbsthilfe & LV Sachsen
„Life
is worth being
lived
www.bvss.de
and www.lvssh.de
but not worth being discussed all the time.
PRO VOCE –
Isabelle
(* 1955)
Gesellschaft
fürAdjani
Sprache
und Kommunikation e.V.
French actress
www.pro-voce.de
[email protected]
Tel.: +49-351-8107099 (Dresden)
Michael
Winkler
Cavtat
May 7, 2007
Telford
Sep 9, 2007
Further documents under (mainly in German):
http://hinweis.xtm.de/stottern/index.htm
Presentation can be sent with email,
and also forwarded to interested people → „Copyleft“
Sources & Copyright/Copyleft
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TV show: http://www.mdr.de/unter-uns/2410181-hintergrund-268822.html
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Wilhelm Reich: www.wilhelm-reich-gesellschaft.de/cms/img/orgonomie_wilhelmreich_170.jpg
Marilyn Monroe: www.germanposters.de/warhol-andy-marilyn-monroe-pink.jpg
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Isabelle Adjani: http://louis.chatel.free.fr/images_blogs/stars_cine/adjani.jpg
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Michael
Winkler
Cavtat
May 7, 2007
Telford
Sep 9, 2007
http://trabant.shocauto.com/images/U2_Trabant_concert1.jpg;
http://static.flickr.com/106/253399475_89d7aac940_m.jpg,
http://trabant.shocauto.com/images/Trabant_Limousine_front_corner1.JPG
Book Bernays „Propaganda“: www.amazon.de
Edward L. Bernays: www.eastman.org/ar/strip17/htmlsrc/muray_sld00009.html
Søren Aabye Kierkegaard: www.cvm.qc.ca/encephi/contenu/philoso/kierkega.htm
Wolf Schneider: www.wolf-schneider-sprachseminar.de (altes Bild)
Hermann Hesse: www.schwarzaufweiss.de/Schwarzwald/unterwegs_im_nordschwarzwald.htm
Felsen: www.filousophie.de, Yin & Yang: www.healingtherapies.info/images/Yin__Yang.gif
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Aristoteles: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristotle
Demosthenes: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demosthenes
Isaac Newton: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton
Lewis Carroll: www.mathematik.ch/mathematiker/carroll.php
Charles Darwin: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Darwin (altes Bild)
Franz Kafka: www.discoverczech.com/aproject/about/vir_fullsize.php4?tour=200&sight=pg&kteremisto=4
Marilyn Monroe: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilyn_Monroe
Winston Churchill: http://www.congressionalgoldmedal.com/WinstonChurchill.htm
Julia Roberts: www.ruggedelegantliving.com/a/002995.html
Rowan Atkinson (Mr. Bean): http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowan_Atkinson
Noel Gallagher (Oasis): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noel_Gallagher
All other images were designed and generated by the author.
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