Public Speaking: The Power of Pausing using EFT and NLP

Powerful presenters are masters at the art of pausing. Pauses can dramatically increase the effectiveness of a presentation. Of course we are talking about pauses that either occur naturally or are used for effect by the presenter, as opposed to the awkward pause that occurs as a result of the mind blanking. Big difference! Pauses [...]

Fear of Public Speaking: Throwing Up and a Happy Ending!

How Can You Not Know You Have A Fear Of Presenting? Well June Spencer never really knew she had an issue presenting until she was training to be an EFT Trainer. And boy did that realisation hit her in no uncertain terms, she literally threw up. (Luckily for all concerned she did manage to reach [...]

Stagefright: “I tried to get it back”

 Philippa recently attended my Confident Public Speaking Course (the main technique used on this course is EFT). The audio is from the interview I conducted with her shortly after she gave some talks on EFT to groups of teenagers in schools. Some of the interesting things Philippa talks about is how she actually tried to get her [...]

Public Speaking: Critics and Fear

It is very true that not all people may like you when you give a presentation. It is really important to overcome this issue. So what if they don’t like you, everyone has a right to their own opinion. However having said that simply knowing that fact does not eradicate the issue. People still feel [...]

Public Speaking: Do we need to feel nerves?

Public Speaking, shyness and social phobia is one of my favourite areas of working, why? Simply because I used to have this fear myself. One of my first public performances was as a five year old child in the school play. I was petrified and at the same time loved the experience, how weird is that? [...]

Presentation Fear: The common causes

Presentation fear, more commonly referred to as fear of public speaking is thought to be THE MOST COMMON fear, thought to be greater than the fear of death itself. In fact a famous American comedian, Jerry Seinfeld once said, “According to most studies, people’s number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is [...]

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