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Our public speaking skills training courses will eliminate your fear or inexperience in public speaking and dramatically improve your speaking skills whether you are persuading, educating, or informing. Our highly interactive public speaking training courses focus on professional business communication including preparation, structure, delivery, and strategy, use of visual aids, and handling questions & answers. Contact us today by phone at 713-627-7700 or via email: service@publicspeakingtraining.net

Public Speaking Training: Getting Over Your Fear Of Public Speaking

Delivering a public speaking speech on any topic can be a completely nerve wracking process. However the biggest worry on our mind is that "Will I do justice to my public speaking speech and hard work?" There would be nothing more frustrating than to spend hours on researching the topic of your public sOne of the topics that clients bring to coaching or counseling is the fear of public speaking, the nervousness that sets in when they stand in front of a crowd or when they have to present to a group of board members as part of their role at work. If you want to know how to overcome this fear, you might want to read this article.

What is fear of public speaking?

The definition that the web gives is: 'Glossophobia or public speaking speech anxiety is the fear of public speaking. The word glossophobia comes from the Greek, meaning tongue, and phobos, fear or dread.'

Phobias are irrational fears of simple things or social situations. Knowing this fact will help you to overcome your automated responses.

How to overcome it

The experience of this fear is partly made up of kinesthetic, visual and auditory components. Once we change the way you feel about it, what you see and what you hear we will create new neural pathways for a new experience.

In a recent session with a client she described that she notices fear in her stomach, which makes her shift, awareness out of there and also feels heaviness in her shoulders paired with a lot of activity in her mind. She imagined that standing in front of group of people meant that she saw all those angry eyes staring at her and piercing her with their energy. This client's non-supportive self-talk was adding to the stress by leading her to believe that people wouldn't like what she was presenting and that they would openly oppose, laugh at her or walk out on her.

Creating a new, more resourceful state

In the coaching session I first asked her whether it would be for her ok to put that construct of her old state to one side, then we started creating a new state. During a previous section of our session she had already identified some of the parts of what a more suitable response would include so we started there. I asked her: What would you like your new resourceful state to be like, which is made out of your felt sense and your visual and auditory input, instead of the old state?

We started with her idea of wanting to remind herself that she could hop back into her power center (the solar plexus) and speak her truth from the heart. Another resource was the fact that other famous public speakers experienced the same 'quickening', experienced as nervousness in the body. This allowed her to normalize her experience. She supported that by saying to herself: 'This is a normal experience. It is ok.'

Then we added some resourceful states like confidence and comfort by accessing that state in other situations, where she already felt that way, and then adding it and allowing it to integrate into her new state creation.

For the visual component of the eyes of the public speaking audience members, I asked her how she would like them to look at her. She then visualized loving eyes with long eyelashes that were moving in nodding motions, encouraging her to speak.

All of this was coupled with some coaching that I gave her in terms of supporting her energy by standing firmly grounded, with her legs shoulder width apart, drawing the energy from sources like mother earth and father sky (which I added from my training in shamanism) and remembering that she was sharing her gift and her knowledge with the public speaking audience. She noticed that in this state it is less about herself and more about the public speaking audience.

In the end I remembered what one of my public speaking trainers once said: 'When you are nervous about your presentation, you are making this more about yourself, than the public speaking audience.'

Nathalie Himmelrich: link

Subject: Public Speaking Training