Demystifying the Cause and Cure of Stage Fright
The Speaking Circles cure for public speaking anxiety arose from my own 45 years of severe stage fright. I was the deer in the headlights guy, and it was humiliating. Toastmasters didn’t help, nor did other methods to break through this confounding issue. It...
Luminous Listening Teams
I received a call last month from an accomplished consultant/author who’d given many successful presentations yet hadn’t spoken in public for 7 years after having what she perceived as a traumatic speaking experience. She was approached by a few speaking...
Cultivating the Safe Space Within
I can trace the roots of my extreme stress around public speaking–which I didn’t solve until I was nearly 50–to growing up in a family that did not provide a safe space to be myself out loud. This started early when my parents followed child rearing...
Luminous Listening: Oxygen for the Psyche
When I started treating people with stage fright 25 years ago I didn’t set out to teach the finely-calibrated vibration of receptivity that turns out to be the kryptonite to public speaking anxiety. Back then there was little subtlety in my own listening. But I...
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