Time to make your presentation fly off the page!

Inflection, authenticity, and how to get to the heart of your audience. Using exercises favoured by actors to bring a text alive, and strategies to fire the imagination, participants apply their new skills to a short, prepared presentation. Helpful strategies to combat nerves and performance anxiety and help you speak with confidence.

If time allows, small breakout groups will be able to hone a presentation, to see how you can deploy the techniques to successfully communicate with panache and flair.

An opportunity to ask questions and discuss the day.

Bring the message off the page and tell your story with impact

Continue exercises to break down the component parts of successful public speaking.

Short sessions in breakout groups will enable participants to practise a short speech and deliver it using the techniques we have discussed.

Performance anxiety, nerves or lack of confidence?

Practical evidence-based strategies and solutions such as visualisation and breathing techniques will overcome your reservations around performance. Participants can demonstrate their new skills.

An opportunity to ask questions and discuss the day.

Voicework and some tips from the theatre!

We explore tailored stretches and vocal exercises to transform your voice. These exercises all use evidence-based techniques designed to increase vocal efficiency.

We deploy exercises used by Speech and Language Therapists, Vocal Physiotherapists and Vocal Rehabilitation Coaches to acquire the best possible vocal set up for speaking. In other words, to find resonance and power without strain or effort.

We explore breathing techniques and how to manage constriction in the throat. We look at vocal health and how to prepare before a big event, and look at strategies for when unwell or not vocally fit.

We look at vocal stamina and how to maintain tip-top form for presenting. We troubleshoot: what to do when you dry up? Clam up? Feel your throat tighten? We investigate solutions to all of these problems.

Break

Bring it to life

We look at how to bring the presentation or speech alive. We use techniques from acting and find variety, pace, energy and authenticity in a speech or performance. We use a number of liberating, fun, challenging and interactive games and exercises to do this.

Before lunch: A task assigned for discussion and for the afternoon workshop.

Lunch

Introduction to the afternoon

We have a brief discussion about performance anxiety strategies.

Breakout and workshop

In this session we split up to explore our public speaking in safe, small groups. We pull together to workshop a short presentation, giving each other feedback and concentrating on particular elements of the day’s work.

Presentation

Showcase your new presentation style and see the outcome! You will deliver your short presentation with confidence and panache.

An opportunity to ask questions and discuss the day.

Bring the message off the page and tell your story with impact

Continue exercises to break down the component parts of successful public speaking. Investigate speaking without feeling daunted by the weight of historical stereotypes of what a great speaker should look like in what was once a man’s world.

Short sessions in breakout groups will enable participants to practise a short speech and deliver it using the techniques we have discussed.

Performance anxiety, nerves or lack of confidence?

Practical evidence-based strategies and solutions such as visualisation and breathing techniques will overcome your reservations around performance. Participants can demonstrate their new skills.

An opportunity to ask questions and discuss the day.