GRADUATE

ACADEMY

Communicating with Confidence and Accuracy

The Course will take place on-site, workshop language will be English.

Target group

Doctoral candidates and postdocs.

Objective

Integral to voice and body training is the central idea that physical and vocal dynamics are connected to the speaker’s motivation and to the importance of the information being
communicated. Trainers with professional theatre backgrounds identify the verbal challenges of each speaker, giving attention to breath, articulation, intonation, volume, modulation and tempo. Coaching is given to improve nonverbal aspects such as gesture, positioning, distance, eye contact and relationship with media.

Participants monitor their improvement and implement feedback with active role-play exercises in which they present in various scenarios such as academic presentation to a large and small audience, informal meetings, interviews and teaching situations.

Contents

• Intensive exercises to identify vocal and physical inhibitions
• Strengthen and release tension in the voice and body
• Identify the dynamics between the voice and body by connecting the upper and lower hemispheres of the body
• Make conscious vocal choices in the delivery of the presentation to communicate each idea with clarity and precision
• Use eye contact to make points and to underline key ideas with fluid gestures
• Explore a dynamic use of space and how to construct an architecture of ideas in the space
• Adopt strategies to use the potential of the technical equipment and physical objects

Methods

• Physical and vocal exercises
• Group coaching with individual support
• Role-play activities

Date, Time, Location

• April 29-30, 2024; 9am - 5pm

Trainer

Ric Oquita, Impulsplus

Conditions of participation

Free of charge for doctoral students and postdocs in Magdeburg.

If you are unable to attend after registration, please contact us immediately at graduate.academy@ovgu.de  .

This allows us in particular to consider others interested in the course who are still on the waiting list. Please note that without your timely cancellation of your participation and/or in case of your non-appearance on the day of the event, we would be obliged to claim the pro-rata costs of the event incurred in relation to your person as damages. You are of course free to prove that the Graduate Academy has suffered no damage or less damage than the one claimed.