WORKSHOPS

WORKSHOPS • SEMINARS
CLASSES • PRIVATE COACHING
CALENDAR

Call 510-524-3676 or E-mail lura@luradolas.com

Workshops and Seminars
Techniques for Confident, Clear, Persuasive Presentation and Communication

Full and Half-Day Workshops including:
Vocal and Physical Presentation and Animation
   Eliminating Nervousness and Stage Fright
   Expanding Vocal Range and Resonance
   Varying Vocal Tone
   Finding Effective Gestures and Body Language
   Using Eye Contact
   Trusting Silence

Applying Acting Techniques to Make Your Point
   Identifying the Playable Objective
   Choosing the Manner of Influence: Using Acting “Verbs”
   Allowing for Spontaneity: Improvisation and Role Playing
   Connecting to the Text: Exploring Personal Commitment to Words

Personal Investment in the Text
   Telling the Story With Clarity and Power
   Finding the Heart of the Story (Using Stanislavski’s “Super objective”)
   Humanizing Language: Minimizing Technical Terms and Finding Persuasive Language
   Immediacy: Using the Present Tense and First Person
   Presenting the Emotional as Well as Intellectual Truth

Classes
On-Going Acting and Presentation Skills Class

Participants, including attorneys, business leaders, teachers and opera singers, focus on assignments designed to help them meet their specific goals. In any given session we may see closing arguments, elevator speeches, scenes or monologues from modern theater or Shakespeare, arias, or improvised interviews. Class size is limited to 12. Accepting students for Fall of 2009. Call 510-524-3676 for further information.

Private Coaching
Individual Coaching—Short Term and On-going

One-on-one coaching to conquer stage fright, increase confidence and persuasive power. Work includes techniques to improve vocal quality, clarity of speech, and non-verbal communication skills and/or organization, language revision and delivery of specific material.

Calendar
Coming and Recent Workshops

Berkeley Repertory School of Theater
Presentation Skills for Courtroom and Corporate Worlds
(Six hours MCLE Credit)
For information regarding next scheduled workshop contact Berkeley Reperatory School of Theatre or call 510-524-3676.

Presentation Skills for Business Presentations
Citizen Space
425 Second St., #300
San Francisco, California 94107

Theater, Dance and Performance Studies
London Program, UC Berkeley

Presentation and Communication Skills
Office of University Relations
University of California, Berkeley

Continuing Education for the Bar, Boalt Law
(MCLE credit available)
Location in San Francisco : TBA

Continuing Education for the Bar, Boalt Law
(MCLE credit available)
Location in Los Angeles: TBA

For information call 510-524-3676