feedback

Thank you! I feel very surprised that i felt such a positive shift in the right direction. It made me feel nurtured.
Diane

The course was absolutely brilliant. I wasn't expecting it to change other areas of my life but it has, The power of just being is profound. I've had a real shift in thought processes which is very empowering
Stuart

The whole course was very well run, very powerful, completely different from anything I've done before. Felt very safe which is something I've never felt in a group before
Lisa

Very simple yet effective means of talking to audiences. Wish I’d known about this when I was younger.
Chris


Thank you for your patience, sense of humour and enthusiasm. You made the process much less painful!
Emma

the secret

I’ll let you into a secret. It shouldn’t be a secret but it seems to be one.

Part of what we are scared of is being listened to.
That might sound daft at first.
“No, its me being nervous that gets in the way” I hear you say.

Actually most of us can speak. Most of us know the stuff that we should be talking about.
But things happen when we stand in front of people. We are not used to seeing blank faces when we speak. We want reassurance but we get blank faces

And most of the audience just looks at you with a blank face.

That’s very different from a normal conversation where we get affirmed by smiles and "Uh-huhs".
Maybe two or three people in an audience nod and smile at us but if you just look at them for 20 minutes you will freak them out!

We assume those blank faces are judging us in some way.
In fact what we really KNOW is that we ARE "boring" or know that we will be "humiliated". So guess what?
We find people who look bored or find people who are judging us.
What we seek therefore is what we get.

We don't assume support - we assume attack.
We also tend to sweep the audience with our eyes rather than speaking to one person at a time.

Seeing public speaking as a series of one-to-one conversations is a powerful way of changing our view of the task. We need to be able to change and build that relationship between speaker and listener. And it’s the how we do that makes speaking circles different.

Speaking Circles® workshops transform the way people communicate by focusing on the essential first step missing in conventional public speaking trainings — the connection between you the speaker and your listeners. Get that connection right then everything else becomes simpler.

Of course there are other factors around what stops us being ourselves but the course helps you to deal with those as part of our work.

Speaking circles® helps you deal with these issues by developing a way of connecting thats different. More neutral and more powerful.
And you need to experience it to understand it.
But once you’ve got it - its really empowering.
And it doesn’t feel like a secret anymore anymore.

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