3D-Presentation Skills: Creating Contact, Relevance & Importance

Kursinformationen

Datum
  • Montag, 17. November 2025,
    09:00 Uhr bis 17:00 Uhr
  • Dienstag, 18. November 2025,
    09:00 Uhr bis 17:00 Uhr
  • Anmeldebeginn
    06.08.2025, 09:00 Uhr
    Anmeldeschluss
    20.10.2025, 12:00 Uhr
    Kosten
    This course is free of charge and for doctoral candidates and postdocs of the University of Basel only (min. 6, max. 12 participants).
    Dozierende
    Dan Wiener
    Veranstaltet durch

    Graduate Center
    Transferable Skills
    grace@unibas.ch
    GRACE Homepage

    Ziele

    The participants
    • understand how they can complement their competence of appearance and use not only verbal but also nonverbal and paraverbal means deliberately to fascinate their audience
    • know how to transform information into a captivating and structured story
    • get a lot of opportunities to exercise and profit from individual (video) feedback

    Kursinhalte

    How to start a presentation and connect with your audience.
    How to start with a keynote and answer your audience’s main question — “What is it all about?” — early on.
    How to use different elements of verbal, nonverbal and paraverbal tools to reach, engage and fascinate your audience.
    How to turn information into a story — and how to rehearse your story.
    How to build an argument with rhetorical structures.
    How to give spontaneous statements that have an impact.
    If you want, you can work on an actual presentation.
    If needed, we can also cover presentation techniques and tips for virtual presentations.

    Form

    Dan Wiener is a trained actor with long and international training experience, who has developed genuine methods and tools for presentation tasks. The workshop is very interactive, includes a lot of practice with the offered tools, and you will receive useful personal (video) feedback.

    Adressatinnen und Adressaten

    All Doctoral Candidates & Postdocs

    Informationen zu den Dozierenden

    About the Trainer
    Dan Wiener graduated as an actor and drama teacher at the Theatre Academy of Zürich (today “Hochschule der Künste”). He is a skilled guitarist and singer.
    1989 foundation of his own theatre company “Thorgevsky & Wiener”, touring with theatre and musical productions across half of Europe, performing in theatres and at festivals.
    1998 Thorgevsky & Wiener was awarded the most important distinction in German-language satire, the „Salzburger Stier“.
    2001 entered as a partner the Swiss training network of the Kissling-Institute, developing communication models and providing management trainings and personal coaching around the globe.
    2008 Dan Wiener founded his own company communication & culture, providing training, coaching and consulting to well-known international clients from a wide range of backgrounds, such as IT, logistics, industry, finances, tourism as well as public authorities, universities and universities of applied science.
    In addition to his native language of German, Dan Wiener speaks English, French and Russian in trainings in Western and Eastern Europe, US, Latin America, Asia and the Middle East.Dan Wiener,3D-Behaviour Methode

    Leistungsspektrum / Workload

    Total 20.5 h ( 2.5 h preparation, 2 x 8 h course attendance, 2h afterwork)

    Besonderheiten

    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.

    Ort

    Universitätsbibliothek Basel, GRACE room 306 (3rd floor) Schönbeinstrasse 18-20, 4056 Basel

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