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Public Speaking Workshop Activities
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Object Matching
One person holds up an object to the camera
The rest of the group is given 8 seconds to find a matching object
The first person decides what is the best match
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Status mingle
Start with eye contact instructions (2 groups) & mingle
switch roles & mingle
choose and change status
Explore external vs. internal
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Story Spine
create a story using Kenn Adams Story Spine
Once upon a time...
Every day...
Until one day...
And because of that...
And because of that...
And because of that...
Until finally...
And ever since then...
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One Person One Thought
In groups, each player takes a turn talking for 90 seconds while expressing one thought at a time to one person.
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Half-life
Partners improvise scene in 1 minute. Then repeat same scene in 30 sec. 15 sec. 5 sec. 1 sec.
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Eye Contact Count
In small groups, speaker must hold eye contact with each person for 5 seconds at a time while speaking about any topic
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Speak Up!
Get over your fear of public speeches and presentation by embracing the beauty of making mistakes.
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Shakespearean Insults
People will do a remake of a Shakespearean scene except they will improvise it a little and change the words with something funnier.
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Gettysburg address
The participant will try to act like Abraham Lincoln and pronounce loudly and clearly as if he was in a wide open area.