Does your voice feel fatigued after a day at work?
Do you have the feeling that people don’t truly listen to you?
Do you feel that you don’t come across confidently enough during job interviews?
Do you, as a teacher, find it difficult to assert your authority in the classroom?
Are you not happy with the color (timbre) of your voice?
Do you have the feeling that people don’t take you seriously when you’re speaking?
Do you feel the energy drain away when you have to tell a story?
Then it’s definitely time for you to consciously look at how you can use your voice (and your body) to get your message across!
What can we work on during the lessons/ workshops?
Vocal techniques: To improve the quality of your voice (including volume, color, clarity and sharpness, pitch, articulation…) and to prevent your voice from becoming fatigued.
Speaking techniques: To improve the form of your discourse (including how the sentences flow, sentence melody, when to breathe, accentuation, rhythm and tempo…)
Breathing techniques: To support the vocal and speaking techniques. Speaking takes place when you breathe out. If the breath doesn’t ‘flow’ well, the voice will also not flow optimally (includes training of respiratory muscles, exercises to learn to breathe naturally, breathing and relaxation techniques…)
Body posture: To support the spoken text and to become aware of muscle tension and action (Kinesiology).
Presentation and appearance: To bring together above aspects to create congruence. (Or in other words: are your thoughts and feelings, the significance of your words, the color of your voice and your posture clear and unambiguous?) … How do you come across? Do you actually know how you come across?
To become aware of how you can communicate a message most clearly.
Theatre techniques:
Send and receive techniques: To generate even more awareness of what you send out and to learn how to ‘receive’ the other person’s message well (ignoring, replying, incorporating etc.).
- Roles patterns: To make you aware of the role you take on in a given situation. We all fulfill many roles in our lives: when we’re with our parents, we are the child; in the classroom, we are the teacher etc. In a given situation, are you in the role that you actually want to be in? Did you choose the role yourself, or was it imposed on you? How do you step into a different role, that truly suits you in that situation? Congruence is also important here: ‘pretending’ will not work…! How to apply the above techniques in order to achieve this.
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How we work together: The above elements call for different approaches, including: physical exercises, dialogue training, audio recordings and/ or video recording.
The lessons can be held at a location agreed on together, or at my home.
Fee for individual lessons:
One one-hour lesson: 70 euros excluding VAT and travel expenses.
Five one-hour lessons: 300 euros excluding VAT and travel expenses.
I will give you exercises to work on at home and maintain contact so I can give you feedback over the course of the lessons.
