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RiverWays Enterprises offers unique resources for
public speaking and for life
March 2008
Speaking presence coach Carla Kimball, founder of the Cambridge-based RiverWays Enterprises, has developed two unique tools for improving your speaking skills and bringing more awareness and presence into your everyday life.
Kimball’s unique and comprehensive “ABCs of Presence in Public Speaking Toolkit” offers strategies and resources for creating balance in your career and in your life. Her new DVD, The Seven Crown Jewels of Public Speaking Presence, offers further insight into the art and skill of speaking with presence.
Kimball’s work with clients helps them to develop a speaking presence by becoming relaxed, natural and engaged with their audiences. She holds an MBA from the Crummer School of Business, Rollins College, and a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Lesley University, and is currently pursuing an Advanced Professional Certificate in Creativity, Imagination and Leadership with Lesley University. Kimball is also a certified Kripalu Yoga teacher and Speaking Circles® facilitator (trained by Lee Glickstein of Speaking Circles International).
The Seven Crown Jewels
In this 45-minute DVD, Kimball imparts the wisdom and experience she has gained in more than 10 years of helping people to become more confident and authentic public speakers. She also embodies her own teaching, allowing viewers to directly experience how a speaker with genuine presence can grab and hold their attention. Kimball breaks down her approach to public speaking into seven nuggets of wisdom, including:
1. Remember: Where you put your attention, that’s where energy
goes.
2. Slow down. Savor the moment....................... Breathe
3. Become aware of your body: Feel your feet on the ground.
4. Think of it as a conversation not a presentation.
5. Ask yourself: How can I be of service? Instead of: How can I be perfect
and show my expertise?
6. Smile: Both to be kind to yourself and to be open to your audience.
7. Trust the power of silence!
To get a taste of the wisdom offered in this DVD watch our five minute trailer.
The ABCs Toolkit
Delivered in a series of 26 e-mails, the ABCs Toolkit distills Kimball’s insight, training and experience in the fields of public speaking, psychology, yoga and meditation. Written in Kimball’s warm, personable style, each entry in the ABCs series includes a story drawn from her experience, a reflection and strategy inspired by this story, and a simple awareness or activity that can be easily incorporated into daily life.
The e-mail format, with one edition delivered each week over 26 weeks, allows subscribers to easily absorb the information. “Receiving one article each week gave me the opportunity to read and reread each article and really try to absorb what was being offered,” says Barbara Breitwieser, a principal with Parker-Torres Design LLC, a hospitality interior design firm. “Often when I read a self-help book from beginning to end, the ideas all blend together and nothing stands out. I think this is an excellent format for learning new skills.”
For example, in “F is for Flexibility, Fluidity and Flow,” Kimball recalls a dance class that she taught outdoors without music, and discusses how letting go of preconceptions and “going with the flow” are keys to spontaneity and authenticity, and can help us recognize unexpected opportunities. The corresponding exercise focuses on cultivating awareness of tension and relaxation in the body.
Extensively vetted by public speakers, including communication and marketing consultants, salespeople, teachers and yoga instructors, as well as accountants, artists and community health workers, the series has been praised for its “honesty and clarity” as well as its practical, effective approach. “I happened to receive the articles on the same day that I would teach Italian to a group of professionals in education,” says Minna Komulainen, a ceramist and language teacher in Finland (www.minnakomulainen.com). “They helped me to focus on the important things and let the nervous thoughts go away.”
Read a sample article and a list of the topics in this series.
Subscribe to The ABCs of Presence in Public Speaking Toolkit for $19.95.
Purchase
the Seven Crown Jewels of Public Speaking Presence DVD for $29.95.
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