Most of the people say that they are terrified when it comes to public speaking. But there are, as well, many other concerns about things that can go wrong… You have an important presentation coming up but are afraid to stand in front of the audience? You don’t know how to speak loudly, or how to control your voice and movements? You never thought about the rhythm of the sentence? You are not sure how to maintain the attention of those who are listening, you are forgetting your lines? Is your articulation not satisfying? You are not sure how to convince your audience or answer questions? Does microphone drive you crazy? Projector’s light goes into your eyes? You don’t know what to do with your hands?

We offer a personalized training adapted to any kind of presentation: university projects, defenses, corporate meetings, conference presentations, manager meetings… Convince your audience with your presence, your impeccable voice technique and the strength of your arguments!
Our aim is to teach young professionals and academics how to prepare conference presentations, business project presentation or their projetct defenses. Interactive work with students in smaller groups. Learning rhetoric, voice and body techniques in public speaking through numerous exercises, games, situations and examples. Most of the posture and vocal exercises are derived from the time-proven theater techniques and butoh dance techniques.

DAY 1 

• The posture and the outfit
• Dealing with the stress of public speaking
• Write your presentation outline
• Rhetoric basis
• Argumentation

DAY 2 

• Space or scenography conditions
• Perception consciousness
• Who is your audience?
• Physical presence
• Voice technique parameters
• Placing your voice
• Holding your voice with your diaphragm

DAY 3 

• Preparing the text and the logical accents in it
• Reading exercise
• Explaining your PowerPoint slides
• Practical work with each student on an example of a text

After this training, the participants will learn how to create a structured presentation for different professional occasions and defend their ideas in a confident way, thanks to their physical presence and voice technique. They will also learn how to express themselves with integrity, to convince their audience and answer questions. Speaking publicly will become a moment of great pleasure and technical performance.

Here are the main areas that we will discuss and practice:

• The structure of a speech
• The typical structures to express your attitude when surprised, without prior preparation.
• The Basics of Rhetoric
• Vocal technique
• Diction
• Body technique
• Self-confidence and how to build it
• Overcome anxiety and stage fright
• How a non-native speaker can overcome different pronunciation difficulties in English

Each participant will have un opportunity to express themselves and to receive feedback from the trainer, personalized and very detailed, on the elements to be improved.

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Interactive work with students in smaller groups. Learning rhetoric, voice and body techniques in public speaking through numerous exercises, games, situations and examples. Most of the posture and vocal exercises are derived from the time-proven theater techniques and butoh dance techniques.