PUBLIC SPEAKING

* Learn the basic principals of good vocal technique
* Sound more interesting
* Strengthen and refine vocal delivery
* Lift words off the page

* Who for: businesswomen & men, teachers & lecturers, speech & language therapists, poets, storytellers, househusbands and wives, sports professionals, commentators etc.

VOICE AND CREATIVITY

Do you want to break out from the rut?

Finding your true, natural voice often means finding the true you. You start speaking from the heart instead of the shell of a person you have grown into.

Being "in tune" with yourself and connected to your instinctual, emotional creative being carries a risk though:

You may find yourself being :-

spontaneous * playful * honest * sexy !!

VOICE AND HEALING

Sound, like light, has healing properties. It is regarded by some to be the medicine of the future. As it was in the ancient past.

It can be used simply to sing the soul back into the body, to energize or de-stress, to recover whole-ness, reconnect with your inner child, embody and explore archetypal energies.

The beneficial and healing potential of meditation is enhanced when chanting is included.

Attunement and harmony in ourselves brings these qualities into our everyday lives.

THEATRE OF TREES

"All the world's a stage" according to the mighty bard, and Annie has fun taking it literally in Ashdown Forest, working with actors, trees and great texts. Speaking these powerful texts in the living wood extends the actor beyond the humdrum and has been described as good as being on the stage at that other great open-air venue, The Globe.

Wood is fantastically sympathetic to the human voice, enhancing the harmonics and thus encouraging and supporting strong and vibrant vocal delivery.

VOICE WORK FOR PREGNANCY & CHILDBIRTH

During the Pregnancy:

The ear is the first organ to develop in the foetus. Sound plays a primal role in the infant's development in the womb and beyond. Yet many women feel inhibited about singing, chanting or talking to their growing baby, or have the feeling that their voices are awful.

In her classes and workshops for pregnant women and their partners Annie helps you drop your inhibitions and find a real connection with your baby through the sound of your voice.

During Labour:

Learn how to work with your baby in the birthing process using intoning.
Annie has taught many women including midwives how to connect with the pelvic mucsles through sounding certain vowels. This is a very powerful technique which changes the woman's relationship to pain and gives her a technique for using it as a way of getting on with the work of birthing.

VOICE TEACHERS TRAINING

CREATIVE ARTICULATION COURSES FOR VOICE TEACHERS

Whether it's to change an accent, correct a "faulty" /s/, a weak r, or a slushy
/t/ - the voice teacher needs creative strategies. Do you hear a fault and want a methodology rather than a shot in the dark? Have you tried everything and don't know what to do any more? Find exercises gleaned from books have limited value as they are not tailored to an individual's needs, failing to enhance your ability as a teacher to successfully diagnose a problem? When needing help with articulation, trial and error intervention wastes time and often leaves the student and teacher demoralised and frustrated. Without a clear idea of the cause, how can the teacher build an effective exercise program ? To find out why "What is the correct tongue position for /s/ ?" is not the right question to be asking, or even teaching, come along to Creative Articulation.

A weekend workshop taking participants through a carefully structured set of procedures, the voice teacher can use to help students remedy faulty articulation. This will be followed by a one day troubleshooting session a month later, where teachers who attend will be encouraged to bring case studies for the group to discuss.

To sound different is to be different which can be threatening - the tongue is the gateway to the heart and is intimately connected to our being on an emotional and psychological level.

Sometimes teachers need inspiration in their work with children with communication problems, but often the speech therapist is too busy to spend time on this.

Annie has run two workshops with teachers in a special needs school in Wales and is very happy to do the same for you. These workshops were a great success with the teachers being able to see immediate results in the children.