Have you ever sat through one of those boring presentations, where the monotonous tone of the speaker is only made worse by slides that make your dog’s breakfast look like a work of fine art?
In this fascinating and evocative session, you will learn how to truly engage, compel and inspire your audience through the mode of storytelling. This workshop is all about finding your motivation through creative techniques while remaining focused on business relevance and outcomes.
With a background in law, politics, business and performing arts, the facilitators bring to the program a unique combination of skills and techniques that meld the corporate and creative worlds.
Topics
Stories, Stories Everywhere
From ‘Igniting Change’ to ‘Talking Values’ there are many types of stories to suit the situation. Learn how to pick the right story for your audience and your objective.
Tapping into Emotions
You can tell me how excited you are, but if you want to captivate me you’ll need to show me as well. We’ll show you how to develop skills that increase your stage presence and make you a compelling speaker.
Mastery of Movement
Lecterns are fine as far as they go, they just don’t go very far. Learn how to master the stage like Baryshnikov.
Life is full of Characters (and so are your stories)
Stories are about people and everyone is different. Tells us about the people in your stories. We want to see them and we want to hear them.
How Do We Do It?
Using dramatic techniques as a base and linking them to practical application for business presentations. This is all about finding your motivation through creative techniques while remaining focused on business relevance and outcomes. The facilitators bring a unique combination of skills and techniques that meld the corporate and creative worlds.
Topics – Half Day Program
- The 4 elements of storytelling performance
- Picking the right story
- Personal Coaching
- Participants: 2 — 4
Topics – Full Day Program
- The 4 elements of storytelling performance
- Picking the right story
- Tapping into Emotion
- Personal Coaching
- Participants: 4 — 6
Topics – 2- Day Program
- The 4 elements of storytelling performance
- Picking the right story
- Tapping into Emotions
- Emotional Structure
- Personal Coaching
- Characterization
- The art of movement
- Participants: 4 — 6
While people might forget dry, boring information they will usually remember stories. Most of us were raised on stories and when we allow ourselves to get past our grown-up-ness, we can all remember how much we (still) love, connect and identify with a good tale. They are both liberating and empowering. They are a most effective way to teach, learn and create a deeper level of understanding and connection.
We remember and connect with stories because they affect us on a level much deeper than the purely cerebral. They bring a level of understanding and revelation that information (of itself) doesn’t. Statistics, facts, data and theories are easily forgettable but stories (which are simply information with pictures and feelings) touch us mentally, emotionally and, even, physiologically. Stories make us laugh and cry. Happy and sad. They affect our nervous system. Excite us. Scare us. They can increase our heart rate. Or lower it. They can trigger chemical changes in our body (cortisol, adrenaline, endorphins). They can make us breathe faster or slower. And they can open the door to a level of understanding that only comes through a ‘three-dimensional’ (physical, emotional and psychological) learning experience.
