Coaching: An actors guide to public speaking

All the worlds a stage

In a world where automation and AI are so prevalent, it's now, more than ever, so important to be able to connect on a personal level. It's why I have created this course. Working with people I so often hear

When I speak the words get caught in my throat.
When I speak I feel like I'm boring people.
There is a part of me that's so scared to get up in front of people.
When I'm up there the adrenalin takes over and I talk too fast.
I forget what I'm going to say and waffle
I let others speak because I don't know to get a word in edgeways

If you recognise your self in any of these, then maybe my course is for you. Taking what I've learned from years in the performance industry, I have made an 8 part course, where we will take you through the fundamentals of engaging the vocal system, to learning and retaining what you're going to say in that big meeting to classic acting techniques on stage presence to change how you relate to the room.

Hi I'm Owen, an actor with nearly two decades experience and a graduate from the worlds most famous clown school in Paris. As a Physical theatre performer I understand the need for the practical, both in the sessions an the affect they should have on your life. Draw on my experience of live performance and the techniques I have acquired to help with communication, leadership and presentation across the board.

All public speaking is a performance, whether it is a presentation at a big meeting, to pitching an idea to vital client or even negotiating your next pay rise at your performance review. Together we can explore how the tenants of stage performance can help enhance your public speaking, in a practical hands on way. learn tools today that can help you tomorrow

Part 1: Centre the breath

Learn how to let the breath drop in a diaphragmatically breath. The breath is at the heart of all performance, so we will start by gaining greater control of yours.

Part 2: Warming up the articulators

You're voice is an instrument, an your articulators are the keys. learn a full spectrum warm up to fine tune your articulators so you're ready to speak with confidence!

Part 3: Connecting the voice to the breath

We know how to drop the breath, but how so we connect the breath to the voice, learn to wield a voice that doesn't strain your vocal chords, but can fill a room with a controlled ease.

Part 4: Resonate with your audience

We will work on how to resonate in different parts of your body, allowing the voice to to be projected out of all of you, allowing your words to carry with more authority.

Part 5: Musicality of the voice

We will work with different text to find how the musicality of your voice helps your points land, even if the subject is dense

Part 6: Holding space with presence

We will work with posture and tempo to help you enter and hold space with just your presence and inner tension.

Part 7: Project manager

We will work on how to project without shouting. combining skills we have learned along the way, how does a supported voice and held presence create a way of speaking that fills a space without shouting.

Part 8: Combine and integrate

We will create mock situations where we have you pitch your ideas, argue your points and negotiate in a "hostile environment" putting all your learned to the test and stretching your new skills.

One-to-one Coaching

50 minute coaching sessions - collaborative, focussed (on most occasions!) and designed so you walk away with increased clarity and learning after every session. Sessions usually take place via Zoom. I share materials and summaries after the end of every session as well as exercises to facilitate reflection. I provide individual digital workbooks for activities to be completed between each session too.

Bespoke sessions tailored to your needs
recording, transcripts and follow up emails of our calls, written by me (not chat gpt!)
Real acting techniques that you learn in the session every session to take out to the real world the moment you've finished.
Bring your real life situations, weather its a job interview or a speech, and rehearse them one-to-one with me.
want to focus on something specific, the course is a guideline, if you want to delve deeper into something, just ask and we can adapt.
Access to me outside of calls for questions or advice

Who Do I Help?

Those who want a practical hands on approach to public speaking.

People who are not afraid to orate with me in sessions, you don't have to be the best, you just have to try your best.

People who want to be able to speak with confidence and clarity, it's not beyond you, it might be scary, but if we do it together, we can get there.

What will it be like?

Hands on, Each session you will be either walking through practical warm up exercises with me, or speaking text and getting feedback. It'll be a safe space with your growth at the centre, but you wont be a passive passenger, you'll be in the driving seat.

What will you leave with?

On a practical level you'll leave with

Professional level warm up for the breath and articulators.
A greater understanding of how to utilize the breath to control your inner world and tempo.
How to use inflection and tempo to alter the musicality of text to make it more endearing,
A better understanding of stage presence, and how controling different levels of tension in your body can achieve this.
How to use the breath to stay present in the face of adrenalin rushes.
How to speak to a group or crowed and it still feel like you are comunicating intimatly,

But beyond that you will get a greater sense of the nature of confidence, and how the ability to hold a rooms attention has always lived inside of you.

What are sessions like?

Coaching sessions are collaborative, focussed (on most occasions!) and designed so you walk away with increased clarity and learning after every session. Sessions usually take place via Zoom. I share materials and summaries after the end of every session as well as exercises to facilitate reflection. I provide individual digital workbooks for activities to be completed between each session too.

What's the investment?

£500 (8 sessions)

Fees include:

One to one coaching sessions
Exclusive access to my network (where it is of value)
Coaching exercises and tools
Email summaries
Weekly check-ins in between sessions
Recording of sessions
Ongoing support.