#storytelling workshop

[moxieinstituteinc]

Speech Training for Success: Enhance Your Public Speaking Skills

You will come across the need to deliver presentations in many different instances of your life. However, most of us find public speaking an intimidating experience. It can be overwhelming to speak in front of a group of people. If you are dealing with the same issue, you should go through speech training. It can boost your confidence and the ability to become a public speaker. Let’s learn more about how a storytelling workshop can benefit you with delivering compelling presentations.

Getting Comfortable Being Uncomfortable

Part of becoming an effective speaker involves getting used to the uncomfortable feelings that often come with public speaking. Speeches create psychological arousal, increased heart rate, blushing, and sweating—the classic “fight or flight” stress response.

While these sensations cannot be fully eliminated, you can ease your fears and learn to work through the discomfort with speech training and repetitive exposure to public speaking situations. Each time you speak in front of groups, you face your fears, gain confidence in your abilities, and make progress toward feeling at ease with public speaking. Over time it becomes second nature.

The Basics: Preparation and Practice

Even natural-born speakers and extroverts can become stronger public speakers by highlighting strengths and addressing areas for growth. First, thoughtfully prepare the content and flow of each speech based on your audience, venue, and speaking time. Carefully choose words, structure paragraphs focused on key ideas, and weave in verbal transitions to guide listeners from one point to the next.

Prepare note cards rather than reading off entire word-for-word manuscripts. Practice your speech multiple times aloud in an empty room. Ask someone to listen and provide constructive feedback; then, incorporate their suggestions for improvement into your preparation routine. As the saying goes: practice makes perfect.

Polishing Technique for Maximum Impact

Beyond content and structure, speech training also focuses intently on delivery technique to amplify your message and connect with audiences. Pay attention to body language, facial expressions, eye contact, vocal variety, and outward enthusiasm for your subject.

Stand up straight with shoulders back, casually gesture with your hands, smile warmly, make eye contact with various listeners for a few seconds at a time, and project a confident, resonant voice that carries to the back row. Practice with a stand-up mirror or record yourself on video to self-critique, adjust, and sharpen the fine points of your delivery. Small improvements in these areas can dramatically enhance your audience’s reception to your speech.

Putting It All Together

Great public speaking ultimately combines substance and style for powerful impact. With diligent speech training to internalize key lessons, you can learn to minimize anxiety, thoroughly prepare content, and perfect the fine points of confident, dynamic delivery. Rather than focusing on avoiding mistakes or embarrassment, shift your concentration towards positively connecting with people through thoughtful messages and passionate expression.

Just step up to the stage or podium with a well-rehearsed speech, open body language, deep breaths, and an engaging smile. With practice over time, the positive response of audiences will fuel your motivation to succeed as an increasingly masterful public speaker. The spotlight awaits!

Ref: https://articlescad.com/speech-training-for-success-enhance-your-public-speaking-skills-165026.html

[alangreenstein]

Meme Kelly: Filmmaker, Playwright, Essayist, and Novelist – Support Our #creatives® podcast - February 19, 2024

Mon. Feb. 19 at 8pmET on Facebook and YouTube via StreamYard. The Support Our #creatives® podcast, hosted by Alan Greenstein. Special guest is Meme Kelly: Filmmaker, Playwright, Essayist, and Novelist. We will discuss her film “One Night in LA,” her [...]

Mon. Feb. 19 at 8pmET on Facebook and YouTube via StreamYard. The Support Our #creatives® podcast, hosted by Alan Greenstein. Special guest is Meme Kelly: Filmmaker, Playwright, Essayist, and Novelist. We will discuss her film “One Night in LA,” her mother’s impact which led to the establishment of the Georgia Mae Project, her upcoming Storytelling Workshop, early projects, and planned…

[chandrandeepesh72]

Two hours Crash Course on Business Storytelling

The best way for any organization to improve its performance and increase its retention is by offering professional development opportunities to its employees. The more the employees are motivated, the more it adds to the company’s productivity.

‘You don’t build a Business. You build People, and then People build the Business.’

Interactive session for acquiring knowledge in short period is something everybody is looking for in today’s busy life. Or it may be just a short course or session arranged by the HR or an organisation to take the employees away from the day to day routine rut for doing something more creative or recreational.

What is Crash Course or short course knowledge provided by Keynote Speaker?

Crash Course is usually very fast-paced and tightly knit to facilitate imparting maximum knowledge in minimum time-frame. Because of the pace in today’s technology there has been a surge in number of crash course.

There is a perpetual need for people to gain more knowledge to upgrade themselves in their professional and personal life. There is no time to learn any topic conceptually as it takes a big chunk of valuable time.

Hence Crash course or short course is the best approach to conduct clarity and knowledge acquisition, in short period, to the participants. The main feature of crash course is that it is extremely subject matter specific. It is an in-house learning to inculcate merits and to get the best from the employees who play a major role in company’s success.

Two hours short / crash courses by storytelling Keynote Speakeer:

Why Storytelling is Important in Business?

Stories Engage and Create Human Connection

They Are More Memorable Than Numbers.

Emotionally Connect People to Create Loyalty.

Increased Profitability.

Storytelling Offers a Competitive Advantage.

‘Storytelling forges connections among people, and between people and ideas.’

The keynote speaker is invited create the required and beneficial impact on its audience, through inspirational and narrative storytelling. They help to evaluate the skill-sets, mind-sets and overall performance of the participants. They guide the participants to exemplify the company values or to become the best endorsers of company name.

To know more: https://deepeshchandran.com/two-hours-crash-course-on-business-storytelling/

[deepeshchandran09]

Importance of Having a Good Friend at Work

I personally feel one of the overlooked factors by few leaders and HRs - Does this employee have a really GOOD FRIEND in office? Would love to hear your thoughts We all spend more time of day in the office than at home.  Human beings are social creatures, and our mental well-being is deeply influenced by the quality of our office relationships. SHARING your office worries, DISCUSSING that toxic manager problems, or simply VENTING to that good friend who understands your work-related struggles can help alleviate stress, provide much-needed emotional relief and make the day-to-day grind more bearable. When we feel connected and valued, we are more likely to be motivated, productive and committed to our organization. Not all are fortunate to have a best friend in the office. Hence if you have a best friend/s in office, then please thank the Holy God for it BTW in my Business Storytelling workshop for HR, I deeply discuss on this topic.

[story-works]

Mastering the Craft: Storytelling Workshop for Enhancing Narrative Skills

Join Story Works for their immersive workshop, "Mastering the Craft: Storytelling Workshop for Enhancing Narrative Skills." Led by expert storytellers, this hands-on experience will equip you with essential techniques to craft captivating stories. Whether you're a writer, public speaker, or simply passionate about narratives, this workshop will help you structure stories, create compelling characters, and evoke emotions. Register now at Story Works to secure your spot and unlock your storytelling potential!

[troypohl0]

PowerOfStorytelling arranges Storytelling workshop that helps storyteller to improve communication and creative skills. In the storytelling workshop, the storyteller gets hands-on experience on how to make impressions. The storytelling workshop is very powerful because it opens the door for those to bring their work and their message to those who need it.

[kashmiresims]

[CLOSED] WORKSHOP - STORYTELLING PHOTOS

Where: Sims Shenanigans Discord #voice-workshop channel

When: 1:00 PM CST (GMT -6) on Saturday, February 24th, 2024

What:  A Workshop about learning more techniques regarding the setup and capture of images in Sims 2 to create a story you want to tell! Subjects include:

Mixing vanilla animations & static poses

Tip & Tricks & Tools of the Trade

How to find the CC you need

Dressing/lighting a set

Elements of a photo/how to enhance a scene

What do YOU want to do? Is it possible? Q & A from the masters(?)

Here is the recorded workshop for anyone who missed it!

[rita-rae-siller]

Okay this is an absurdly specific ask for Storyteller Saturday....what is one wip outside of your posted/main one you'd like to talk about? Or alternatively, what is something within your main wip you want somebody to give you an excuse to talk about?

Feel free to answer either or both!

Oooooo, I’ve been looking for an excuse to rave about my vampire WIP!!!

So this is my longest story. The Price of Blood currently sits at over 120k words in draft 1. Almost 30 chapters. I took a break from working on draft 2 to work on The Lies They Tell during a fiction writing workshop I took in the spring semester at school.

It’s my other queer fantasy novel, featuring one very tall princess (Her name is incredibly long, but she goes by her first middle name, Victoria) that’s abducted by a vampire cult to harbor the soul of the God of Shadows and Subterfuge, AKA the vampire anti-christ. Her entire homeland Halaafin, ruled by the Halaa—sort of half elves basically? They’re one of the only people in this world that have magic. Pure humans can’t use magic—is overrun by this cult and basically destroyed. She makes a bargain with a spider witch that's also been betrayed by the cult to save her life and that of her unborn child. The ritual to summon the vampire anti-christ is sabotaged, but the vampires don’t know it. She manages to escape not long after.

Queue 15 years of living alone with her son in the middle of the woods of the neighboring empire until he’s old enough to help her fight the vampires and retake their kingdom. But things don’t go according to plan. The spider witch tells her she has to get a jump on their plans to destroy the cult early, before her son is ready by Victoria's standards. Queue her teaching her son a lot about his history and also her running into her childhood best friend/almost lover, a duchess in the empire that serves the empress as a professional monster hunter. The two reconnect to fight the cult, fall back in love with one another, and also work on healing from the trauma of losing their families to the cult. It's a very gay story full of angst, dry humor, and lots of dead vampires. Also stresses the importance of family and loved ones in the healing process, and how grieving is inherently ugly. (I wrote a lot of this WIP while my own grandmother was dying, so loss is a big theme in it, as well as love continuing after death)

Also guns. Victoria has been removed from modern society for almost twenty years, so when she comes back to civilization, she's introduced to more modern monster hunting equipment used by non-magic people. And let me tell you: nothing makes this giant bisexual disaster happier than getting to shoot vampires and monsters in the head point blank with a revolver.

[shesthespinstersimmer]

✏️Hello from development world

Made it over to the other side (finally), and I had the perfect sim to test out this pack. (Spoiler: you’ll find out more about her in season 4 of W&W)

First Impressions:

CAS: Meh (except for that one cute hairstyle, you know the one)

B/B: I’m into it

GAMEPLAY: Interesting so far, but I don’t see a much longevity

STORYTELLING: Useful

✏️ All I got for now 🖤🤘🏾

[crimeronan]

you guys i've been nauseously anxious about sending my original fiction to the irl writing group bc i've been like "i know this is technically good but i also know that it's an unpleasant horror story about women who are just The Worst (TM), and it'll break my heart if they tear it to shreds. even though it's likely to get torn to shreds"

i just got an email from one of the group members (a very insightful woman in her 50s or so) that was like "i'll have more substantial feedback next week, but i've DNFed ten professionally published books this month and this is one thing i want to keep reading. it's the best story i've read in a while and i hope we get to read more"

i'm gonna. cry.

[sashartiist]

Me and @chiliconcomics are working on a project together, and here are some pieces I’ve made for it! I’ll share more about the project itself if anyone is curious, but it will have to wait until after our deadline. The project is for our bachelor, the so-called graduation project, the final BIG exam we do before going off to do internships. January 24th is nearing so fast!

[blackgumball]

white they in my class yesterday was critiques on there being little to no dramatic conflict in their story, and they justified that by saying "well, I believe conflict is a western way of writing stories. eastern stories like some ghibli films dont have any conflict. if i dont want to add conflict to a story, i dont." which annoyed me but i want to ask. am i crazy for thinking thats a super reductive way to look at eastern storytelling?

[drsilasaslan]

Rustic Wooden Blocks in Workshop A close-up view of colorful wooden blocks stacked in an industrial setting, showcasing their rugged textures and weathered appearance. The atmosphere amplifies a sense of creativity and hard work.

[chandrandeepesh72]

Corporate Storytelling Workshop

Corporate communication workshop: important but neglected business aspects

The world of Corporate is based on strategies and output. They have different resources working at various levels and skillsets, with a common goal revolving around client satisfaction and growth of the organization. Trainings and workshops are required at intervals to update them with the latest technologies, advanced skills and performance expectations.

The best way to induce knowledge and accomplish the goal is through sessions and trainings of narrative storytelling. Effective communication provides additional value to those sessions. To make the corporate communication workshop more effective, the higher authority must also master the fundamentals of storytelling.

How and why is Storytelling workshop beneficial to business and corporates?

The contents of Corporate Stories are designed in a way that which are beneficial for everyone; whether it’s the head of a company addressing his/her global team or a blue-collar worker narrating his/her shop floor experience. Stories have the power to transfer knowledge through illustration which has a positive impact, immerse knowledge and inspiration targeted with delivery of facts, figures and complex data in a simplified way.

The following table lists the various organization position holders along with their corresponding responsibilities.

A typical story consists of a character, location, incident, conflict, and conclusion. An experienced storyteller connects his/her ideas with these aspects and adds the right emotions to attain a desired reaction. However, inspiring corporate communication workshops do not contain complex ideas and jargon. They consist of simple concepts, human emotions, their conflict, and a powerful message to accomplish the required goal.

The corporate communication workshop is packed with stories and morals related to the field and the organization itself. The workshop, which consists of effective communication stories, creates an environment that stimulates the participants’ brains and allows them to improve their skill sets and capacities. We can conclude that Storytelling creates an interaction that develops into reaction of the participant with the end result as objective achieved by the workshop.

Now, let us understand how business storytelling workshop activities and exercises can be result oriented.

Business storytelling workshop provide training-led exercises, in which resources with expertise or professions in particular field are actively involved and indulged in interactive discussion on specific topics, on the basis of examples. It is an interesting and interactive method with a system of activities which are designed taking into consideration the requirements of organization. Storytelling workshop exercises and activities can be fun-filled and knowledgeable with clarity in the concept.

(Examples for Storytelling workshop activities and exercises)

Storytelling workshop with pop-ups

Storytelling with pop-ups illustrated on the white board helps the participants to actually grasp the clarity on the concept of objective-oriented stories. It enables them with the power to listen, understand and implement the objective in their day to day tasks.

Benefit: Clarity on vision and mission of organization

Team building exercises through storytelling

Well-constructed and compelling storytelling workshop helps to break the ice and create an atmosphere of camaraderie and also connection between various teams. In the business world there is constant interaction between various departments and functions; hence it is essential to utilize team building strategies through mutual respect, trust and understanding between resources for better output. 

Hereby, we see that compelling stories create relevancy in the mind of the participants.

Conclusion:

Let’s connect and create exclusive and effective stories. We are just a click away. Contact us on

hello@deepeshchandran.com & +919970838025 . We are just a call away.

[enchantingepics]

Story Prompt 74

Each person had their own level to navigate, their own demons to face. Yet, amidst the chaos, they all shared one truth: they were in this together.

On the corner of 8th and Elm, a worn-out diner stood, its neon sign flickering like a heartbeat. Inside, the aroma of coffee mingled with the scent of desperation. A waitress with tired eyes poured refills for the regulars, their stories etched in the lines of their faces.

At a booth in the corner, two strangers found themselves drawn together by the invisible thread of shared struggle. One, a weary artist with paint-stained hands, sought solace in his sketches. The other, a young woman with dreams as fragile as glass, juggled bills like promises she couldn't keep.

"You ever feel like you're just spinning your wheels?" the artist mused, swirling his coffee.

The woman nodded, her gaze fixed on the rain-streaked window. "Every damn day. Like no matter how hard I try, I can't catch a break."

Their words hung in the air, a symphony of echoes bouncing off the linoleum floor. In that moment, they weren't just strangers – they were kindred spirits, bound by the shared burden of existence.

[pacdevil]

I have talked about my RH/SATBK/KA hybrid au and not shared anything i made so far and that's not fair for yall so here's a Robin Hood Sonic for your patience uwu enjoy