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Voice and Body Training – Communicating with Confidence and Accuracy (June 12th-13th, 2024)

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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. The workshop is led by a theatre professional who will identify the verbal challenges of each speaker, giving attention to breath, articulation, intonation, volume, modulation and tempo. You will be coached 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 in brief:

  • 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

This course can be recognized for your Higher Education Teaching Certificate (opens in new tab) – Basic Competences, as 16 work units. Please contact the Ingenium team regarding your participation certificate.

Target group: Doctoral candidates and postdocs from all departments and fields of study

Trainer: Ric Oquita | impulsplus

Language: English

Date/Time:

  • Wednesday, June 12th, 2024 | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
  • Thursday, June 13th, 2024 | 9:00 am – 5:00 pm

Location: S1|03 Old Main University Building (Hochschulstr. 1), Room 212

Registration: Please fill in the Ingenium registration form (opens in new tab).

Ric Oquita (opens in new tab) is a classically trained actor, singer and dancer, and a graduate in Theatre Arts from the University of Southern California (BA) and Cornell University (MA). As a professional performer, he has worked in theatres across the USA. Since 2007, he works as a trainer with Impulsplus. Ric provides techniques to strengthen and support effective speaking, crafted writing, corporal training and interpersonal communication skills. He excels as a trainer in offering support tailored to the needs of each participant in a proactive environment, helping speakers to develop engaging and impactful presentations and to articulate a central theme and core messages.

His motto: “Tell me and I forget. Teach me and I remember. Involve me and I learn.” – Benjamin Franklin

You would like to participate in Ingenium events but do not have child care during that time? Here you can find more information about short-term child care at TU Darmstadt (opens in new tab).