Public speaking.
Stevenson, Geoffrey (United Kingdom)
Communication-Media arts
English

We have scheduled this workshop as follow:
A series of 4 workshops (total number of workshops) in 4 days, so each day is 1 workshop hour.

This workshop has been placed in the following category:
Communication-Media arts. 

Maximum number of participants:
6.

The needed artistic level of this workshop is:
Average.

The skills criteria for participants to follow for this workshop are:
Average.

You will have learned after doing this workshop:
1. An appreciation of the skills required for effective public speaking.
2. A development of personal ability to prepare and deliver short talks.

What materials/equipment you need to bring to be able to do this workshop:
Students need to bring a 3 minutes talk, or 3 minutes of a talk, that they have written and learned. It can be a sermon, a sales presentation, a stage introduction to an act or a song, or a classroom lecture, etc.

Other important things a participant should know to be able to do this workshop:
Recognising that public speaking can be stressful and disturbing, we will aim in this workshop for an atmosphere of encouragement and positive criticism.

The content of this workshop is:
This workshop will consist of a practical presentation of factors that contribute to effective public speaking, along with exercises for practice. In particular we will cover voice, posture and gesture. It will be followed by student presentation of prepared work with feedback.