| Start Date | Duration | Cost | Max Participant Numbers |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monday 28th April | 1 day | €280 | 10 |
Overview
Are you a creative professional who wants to improve your presentation skills in the workplace?
Have you always dreamed of treading the boards at Dublin’s iconic Abbey Theatre?
Using techniques from the stage of Ireland’s National Theatre, this Presenting with Impact workshop will add impact and energy to your presentation style.
With a focus on delivery, participants will learn a series of practical exercises, which will transform how they communicate and present in the workplace.
This full-day workshop combines work on the fundamentals of voice, breath, and body and moves on to text. We will look at new ways to land your points and engage the attention of your audience, whether that’s your team or your funders.
Participants will be shown how using a greater variety of pitch, pace, tone, and pauses will help them to hold the room, engage and influence an audience, and to land their message with greater confidence and ease.
Participant profile/Who can apply/Eligibility
This workshop is open to individuals in leadership/management/HOD/Supervisor roles with a minimum of 2 years’ experience working in a company/organisation or as a freelancer in the creative industries.
Please note that the workshop is capped at a maximum of 10 participants.
Due to our funding parameters, this course is only available to those resident in the Republic Of Ireland.
All enquiries should be directed to barbaradeignan@furthr.ie
Tutor information
This course is being facilitated by Gillian McCarthy through Abbey Theatre Skills for Business.
Gillian McCarthy is an actress and theatre facilitator with over twenty years experience. After graduating from the BA in Acting Studies, Trinity College Dublin she performed with numerous theatre companies in Ireland and the UK, including Druid Theatre Company, the Abbey Theatre, ANU Productions and the National Theatre, London. As a theatre facilitator and teacher, she has worked with various groups, schools and organisations including Deloitte; Glandore; the Law Society of Ireland; Co[1]Operation Ireland; Dublin Youth Theatre; ATC Language School; Smurfit Business School; Irish Cancer Society; the Abbey Theatre’s Outreach Programme; Age and Opportunity Ireland; the HSE and the Gaiety School of Acting Gillian is also a qualified Life Coach, Meditation Teacher and NLP (Neuro[1]Linguistic Programming) Practitioner. She incorporates these modalities into all her teaching and facilitation work, with a strong focus on the importance and effectiveness of using the breath to find presence, connection, clarity and grounding.
Abbey Theatre Skills for Business introduces clients to the techniques that are fundamental to dynamic communication. Facilitators are highly experienced theatre professionals who have worked with a variety of groups including corporate clients, actors, teachers, lecturers and medical professionals. There are full day and half day workshops, as well as bespoke workshops, which are devised with the client in order to deliver on specified goals. The Abbey Theatre also provide one to one presenting coaching where the focus is on the individual’s areas of development. The Abbey’s facilitators come with over twenty years’ experience helping people to hold a room, to tell the story, to land their points with greater impact and to find a genuine connection with their listeners.
Venue/location
The Abbey Theatre, 26/27 Lower Abbey Street, Dublin 1, D01 K0F1
Costs/fee
Course fee €280 per person. (Without support this workshop would cost €550 per person)
Deadline for course application
Tuesday April 22nd at 5pm
Email barbaradeignan@furthr.ie if applying after this point as we may have additional spaces available
Dates and times of the course
Monday April 28th – 9am – 5pm
This cost includes light breakfast, mid-morning and mid-afternoon refreshments and a light lunch.
Apply
CLICK HERE TO APPLY.
You will be required to fill in a short form, submit a short statement of intent on why you want to do the workshop, and submit a CV.
All applicants will be notified on the status of their application before Tuesday April 15th
For any queries, please contact barbaradeignan@furthr.ie