WORKSHOPS

WORKSHOPS • SEMINARS
CLASSES • PRIVATE COACHING
CALENDAR

Call 510-524-3676 or E-mail lura@luradolas.com

Workshops and Seminars
Techniques for Confident, Clear, Persuasive Presentation and Communication

Full and Half-Day Workshops including:
Vocal and Physical Presentation and Animation
   Eliminating Nervousness and Stage Fright
   Expanding Vocal Range and Resonance
   Varying Vocal Tone
   Finding Effective Gestures and Body Language
   Using Eye Contact
   Trusting Silence

Applying Acting Techniques to Make Your Point
   Identifying the Playable Objective
   Choosing the Manner of Influence: Using Acting “Verbs”
   Allowing for Spontaneity: Improvisation and Role Playing
   Connecting to the Text: Exploring Personal Commitment to Words

Personal Investment in the Text
   Telling the Story With Clarity and Power
   Finding the Heart of the Story (Using Stanislavski’s “Super objective”)
   Humanizing Language: Minimizing Technical Terms and Finding Persuasive Language
   Immediacy: Using the Present Tense and First Person
   Presenting the Emotional as Well as Intellectual Truth

Classes
On-Going Speakers' Workout Class

Participants practice presentation techniques and rehearse with a class of 10–15. Participants work on assigned or original material including "elevator speeches," keynote addresses, openings and closings, board and sales presentations, power-point technique and interviews. (Accepting for fall and winter 2007–8)

Private Coaching
Individual Coaching—Short Term and On-going

One-on-one coaching to conquer stage fright, increase confidence and persuasive power. Work includes techniques to improve vocal quality, clarity of speech, and non-verbal communication skills and/or organization, language revision and delivery of specific material.

Calendar
Coming and Recent Workshops

Saturday, June 2, 2007    10am–5pm
Presentation Skills for Business Presentations
Citizen Space
425 Second St., #300
San Francisco, California 94107
(more information)

June 12, 2007–July 17, 2007
Theater, Dance and Performance Studies
London Program, UC Berkeley

Friday, July 20, 2007    10am–5pm
Presentation and Communication Skills
Office of University Relations
University of California, Berkeley

Saturday, November 17, 2007    9am–5pm
Continuing Education for the Bar, Boalt Law
(MCLE credit available)
Location in San Francisco : TBA

Saturday, December 1, 2007    9am–5pm
Continuing Education for the Bar, Boalt Law
(MCLE credit available)
Location in Los Angeles: TBA

For information call 510-524-3676