Exercise: What Makes it Mine?
Reflect upon your communication patterns. Take this opportunity to deeply consider how you communicate. You might simply think of the patterns of communication that you…
Topic Category: Exercise
Exercise: Why Does it Matter?
Think about events in your life in which the quality of your communication was important to the outcome. Maybe presenting as a subject matter expert,…
Exercise: How Does it Work?
Think about how you learn. Whether it was memorizing the alphabet, tying a shoe, playing an instrument, learning a sport, driving a car, or assembling…
Exercise: What is Strategic Communication?
We modify and adjust aspects of our communication in order to be understood or achieve outcomes. That’s happening all the time- whether we plan those…
Exercise: Using Decisive Gesture
Incorporating Decisive Gestures to punctuate and break up gestural patterns amplifies and adds emphasis to content that is direct, factual, or to the point.
Exercise: Triangular Focus Relationships
By opening the stance and physical orientation of the body we can create three point focus relationships that allow for more effective and better distributed…
Exercise: Tools for Teachers
A combination of fundamental skills and meaning-making theory will enhance your ability to connect with learners and amplify the quality of student engagement in the…
Exercise: Star Hands
Stars Hands is a vocal and gestural warm up that can be incorporated into any performance-prep routine.
Exercise: Plane for Direct and Cross
Using Plane in the well, at the podium, or from your counsel table is a powerful tool for witness management.
Exercise: All the World’s a Stage
We don’t have to be in an artistic venue strategize like a performing artist. Any physical space, and any gathering of people, can be understood…
Exercise: Finding Diaphragmatic Breath
Practice the 3-step breathing exercise so it becomes an accessible and available pattern. Once you have taken the exercise through a few repetitions, think of…
Exercise: Interviews: Actionable Intentions
Once you have taken the time to comprehensively note what you bring to the table, decide how you intend to deliver that information. For each…
Exercise: One Breath, One Thought
Start to reflect upon your thoughts in past presentations, situations where you were communicating important information to an audience, or when the stakes were high,…
Exercise: Think, Breathe, Speak
As you begin to observe your natural breathing patterns, notice when your breath is deep and connects with fluent speech to express yourself. Now, reflect…
Exercise: Practicing Directive Thoughts
Connect the 3-step breathing exercise with your everyday speech. As you go about your day, find in-person communication or virtual situations where you can practice…
Exercise: The Emotional Center
In considering the concept of the Emotional Center, Observer how you position the Frame of your body in relation to how you are feeling toward…
Exercise: Understanding Fundamental Skills
Begin to purposefully think about and observe the actions that are involved in your communication practice. Do you – Consider the Given Circumstances? Develop an…
Exercise: Using Full Back
Think about your everyday employment of a Full Back orientation. As a driver in a car to those in the backseat, you either have to…
Exercise: Understanding Frame and Stance
Observe your everyday use of Frame and Stance. What is your default pattern of Stance? Narrow? Wide? Or a balanced Basic Stance? You most likely…
Exercise: Understanding Counterbalance
Become aware of the various patterns of positioning in your standing or seated Base and then observe the Counterbalance efforts of your upper body. Through…
Exercise: Creating a Listening Body
Observe what body positioning you naturally default to when listening. Do you disengage with your body as you process what you hear or are you…
Exercise: Finding a Ready Position
In what situations, other than a formal presentation, do you envision employing the Ready Position? Think about the many types of formulated Ready Positions in…
Exercise: An Overview of Gesture
As you have been learning, movements in the body can be viewed by the audience or communication partner as supportive of verbal content, or unsupportive…
