Out with It! – Training for Voice, Speech, Body Language

Aims

You are qualified and competent – your audience should hear it, see it and feel it. “HOW” we deliver our content determines our impact on others much more than “WHAT” we say!

To leave the impression you wish – in lectures, presentations, interviews, meetings ... – it is necessary to know how to perform professional and genuine and very useful to be in control of your own „instrument", so that your body and voice doesn't tell a different story than your words.

In this workshop you gain a good basic knowledge about voice, speech and body language as well as practical experiences and you always get individual feedback – to feel confident and safe in future challenging communication-situations.

Hitting the right impact to convey an important message depends crucially on the right "tone".

• Increase presence and charisma
• Behaving professional in professional situations
• Being able to control and steer your non-verbal signals
• Awareness and choice for your own live-performance

Content

• Theory of voice and body language
• Professional, natural breathing technique for speaking
• How can you take control of your voice and even play with it?
• Learn to leave the impact you choose, acting techniques
• Tuning mindset towards role and mission
• Professional steering of one’s performance in teaching, discussion, presentation
• Dealing with dominance and/or stage fright
• Reacting calmly and self-confidently if needed
• Developing charisma

Methods

• Practical exercises: Individual / partner / small group
• Video feedback / analysis and tips
• Learning by doing - with "head, heart and guts”

Target Group

All Doctoral Candidates & Postdocs

About the Trainer

Katharina Padleschat, Raus mit der Sprache! Coach / Trainer for Voice, Speech, Body Language / Presence and Charisma

Her background is the world of theater (singing, acting, dancing).
She worked as a choreographer and as a voice coach at various theaters and TV and also as a professional studio voice-over artist.
For over 20 years she has been working with people for whom performance, charismatic impact and interpersonal communication are of great importance.
She coaches people, nationally and internationally, from the fields of science, industry and commerce, law, consulting and the arts.
Her profession is the professional - and at the same time natural - use of voice, speech technique and a present, expressive and authentic body language. The focus is on the combination of performance techniques and individual personality development in order to develop natural presence and charisma.
For Katharina Padleschat it is of great importance that skills and personality can merge, so the coachee shows presence, charisma and ease.

Her motto:
You are competent and everyone should hear, see and feel that!

Workload

Total of 17h (course attendance 16h, preperatory work 1h)

Feature

Should the covid-19 situation change and we are required to switch to an online format, the course will take place on 19 & 20.03.2024, from 09:00-17:00.

Once registration is open, applications will be collected for 24 hours and course places allocated by lot. All registrations received after the initial 24h period will be put on a waiting list and assigned on a first come, first served basis.

Course places/places on the waiting list will be confirmed by e-mail. Course registrations can only be canceled before the registration period ends (send an e-mail to grace@unibas.ch). Full course attendance is mandatory. Participants who fail to attend a course without prior notification or withdraw after the registration deadline are subject to a fee of CHF 30. In addition, participants who cancel their course registration at a later point in time, are absent without an excuse or do not attend the entire course will, for reasons of fairness, not be considered for course registration in the following semester and will be removed from other courses offered in the same semester. Please find the detailed regulations on the Transferable Skills Homepage.