How to be a better public speaker by paying attention to critical variables that can help you
If you want to be better at anything, pay attention to the critical variables. That’s the most brilliant insight from Tim Gallwey’s Inner Game work…
An improvisation activity for speakers and story-tellers: ‘Fish, Cable, Catapult’
I’m often asked, ‘What makes a good activity in applied improvisation?’. Well, more truthfully I was once asked this once in an interview.
Here’s what I said…
Three ways to make conferences less boring
Have you ever felt deflated by attending a conference where there’s presentation after presentation – and you seem to get nothing from it?
Transports of Delight
My colleague was inspired to invent a new introductory game for our London improvisation group session the other night. She saw a new electric scooter hire service and fancied giving it a try. So, at the beginning of the workshop, she asked everyone to describe to a partner how they had got to the session that evening and what way they would have liked to have arrived.
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How do you get groups out of their comfort zone without resistance?
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Waking up your passive audience
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How a conference organiser can strip a facilitator’s credibility with a single gesture
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How to transform a bored audience into a keen bunch of listeners?
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Start at the end
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On the question of inviting questions
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How to get a conference off on the right foot
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