The Confident Voice

Want to be a more confident speaker? To present your ideas with greater clarity and persuasiveness?

This summer term brings a new Course following principles looked at previously, showing how deeper levels of communication can become possible, so that we may develop into more effective speakers both socially and in the workplace.

If you are looking for ways to open up new channels, and to see how words and movement can more effectively enliven and enrich everyday conversation, then this popular and highly interactive course is for you. It’s practical and great fun.

Exercises include:

Self Awareness and Communication skills – work on mind and body. Contact with space; posture and deportment to find natural balance and poise in speaking in public.

Voice – development of a flexible range of vocal tone. Awareness and feeling for significant rhythms of speech which includes the pointing of key words and subordination of lesser words. Clarity and precision without affectation or aggression.

Storytelling – and the use of humour.

Bringing Mind and Body into play – exercises to develop an overall co-ordination of physical and mental response. Breathing techniques to enable bodily ease, natural facial expression and gesture which gives the listener a feeling of sincerity, confidence and friendship.

Starts: 12 May 2012
The course consists of nine weekly sessions.

Times: 9.30 am – 10.45 am

Presenter Neville Wortman

(Voice and drama coach, former BBC TV Staff producer, RADA Gold Shakespeare Certificate with Merit)

Fees £45 / concession or student £30

Enrol by phone – 020 7034 4000 or on arrival for first session