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Our courses currently on offer for educational establishments:
The Forsaken Asset (Full day course)
A day of inspiring activities to assert the techniques invaluable for healthy voice use including breathing, support, projection, health care advice, expressive tonal ranges, tension release and awareness.
Voice and Presence (Full day course)
A day designed to create greater confidence and awareness of how voice can affect the perceived and real effectiveness of the teacher. Posture, open body language, gesture and vocal clues are explored alongside vocal variety and proxemics. Creating the true voice of authority, trust and enthusiasm is the aim.
How can I look after my Voice? (Half day session)
An overview of health tips and preventative measures for a future career; insights for the "ageing" voice and how to keep clarity and tone; exploring the different vocal tone qualities - the equivalent to the "screen saver".
Performance skills for the classroom (Half day session)
The teacher as a performer: how to engage the class and excite the passion for your subject. Symbiotic awareness and gaining confidence are all tackled; body gesture, eye contact, voice timbre and emotional intelligence; differences between boys' and girls' listening and speaking skills; making the connection with an audience and creating impact without shouting or even saying a word!
Voice and presence (Half day session for smaller groups)
Tackling the same issues as the full day; a bite size version!
The Emotionally Intelligent teacher (NEW) (Half day session)
IQ has been around a long time, but the ability to tune into EQ brings together all the strands and offers a way of working with students which will transform teaching. This half day session, introduces the concept and highlights the skills which can be developed to continue the process. The EI teacher listens and reacts to information received, has excellent interpersonal skills and is able to separate emotionally from situations which might arise in the classroom, thus allowing different outcomes. It enables the teacher to be a coach and mentor when the situation arises and engenders a positive atmosphere in the class.
De-stress and sing! (Twilight session)
A fun session which underlines current research about singing as a tension buster. Singing is good for you! - and recent findings show it helps keep you young! Learn about the voice as you enjoy yourself!
Looking after the voice (Twilight session)
An overview of health tips and preventative measures for a future career; insights for the "ageing" voice and how to keep clarity and tone quality.
Individual Voice Coaching Sessions (typically 90mins)
Hear and feel the difference in 3-4 bespoke sessions for anybody struggling to make their presence strong through confidence, awareness of accent or vocal issues. Some people appreciate time to explore what will be their teaching style. Highlighting the little things which can make a big difference is often the real key to change. (Note - these sessions are also effective in a troubleshooting small group. It is very enlightening to see the changes in somebody else).
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 Teachers 'need voice training'...
Philip Parkin, general secretary of the Professional Association of Teachers, said speech training would avoid "the premature end to careers".
Read on the BBC...
Do you have a problem with your voice?
Take our questionnaire to find out.Here are some straight-talking questions to make you think about vocal issues.
Take the questionnaire...
(Left-click to open, right-click to download.)
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