It Happened Here: Speak with Confidence
On Monday May 6, 2019, Barbara Frum Branch hosted a workshop for youth, "Speak with Confidence: Overcome your fear of Public Speaking through Improv and Comedy". Let by Stephan Dyer and Juan Cajiao, award-winning comedians, public speaking coaches, and TEDx Speakers, the workshop aimed to provide tips and techniques to improve stage presence, develop self-confidence and help overcome the fear of public speaking.
One participant, a member of the Barbara Frum Branch Youth Advisory Group, shared their experience with us:
"Today, after the [YAG] meeting I attended the Public Speaking Workshop. It was a really fun experience because I got some of my friends to attend and it was great to see more than just youth but adults that want to learn more about public speaking. The people that spoke to us today were Juan Cajiao and Stephan Dyer. They are most known for their Stand Up Comedy: Club de Comedia; Malpensando.
I learned that there are different thing and tips to help us be more confident with presenting/speaking to a crowd. Things like how to control your nervousness, different techniques on presenting, and even doing a few warm ups to prepare ourselves. They had us do a few activities to demonstrate these different tips & techniques in real life scenarios.
I expected this event being more calm and mostly just sitting and listening. But we were all very involved and it was well explained. I think it would be really amazing if they were to come back again and do another workshop because people really seemed to enjoy Juan and Stephan advice for everyone and its a way to even bring adults into it too."
Submitted by Hope, Grade 10.
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