[photo of me speaking by Scott Beale/Laughing Squid]
Last week, a group of us had the distinct pleasure of doing a 2-hour seminar with the delightful Lura Dolas, an acting coach who also trains speakers, business professionals and lawyers how to ‘reassure’ their audiences. Her technique is here…and it was wonderfully gentle and extremely helpful.
At the end of it, all of us in her class were begging for more, so I thought I’d take the initiative and beg and plead and convince Lura to offer the same training in a 6-hour format at Citizen Space.
Sure enough, she accepted!
I don’t know about everyone else, but I’m incredibly relieved to have this opportunity. I have many speaking gigs coming up and, if I want to continue to do this and do this effectively, I need to get some coaching. But coaching is expensive…starting at around $100/hour (Lura’s one on one is $150/hour) and I’m not super wealthy (all of my disposable income goes to keeping the teenager happy).
Lura agreed to do the class for $99/person for the full day, which is an amazing bargain. If you cannot make the seminar on January 27th, there is another class at Berkeley that costs $400 for the day. I believe it is on February 10th.
Here are more of the details for anyone interested in partaking. Be sure to sign up soon because there are only 20 spots available.
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4 Comments
I’ve been following this on the DeeplyGeekly list and want to thank you for setting this up. Unfortunately I won’t be able to attend. Why? Because I’ll be standing up in front of a hundred or so people doing a presentation on the other side of the world. Do I wish this I’d had this sort of training beforehand? Do I ever!
This sounds great!
Anyone thinking about taking Miss Rogue up on her offer ought to just write the check and take the plunge.
Since I’m way over in Iowa - I won’t be able to.
Will you be writing a post on how the training goes?
Keep creating,
Mike
Lura Dolas is the BEST.
Run, do not walk to whatever she offers.
I’m so in. Why would one want to pass up an opportunity like this?
Thanks, Tara, for organizing!