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A practical workshop with Richard Lawton and Mary Ferguson

This seminar demonstrates simple, powerful secrets and strategies of body language and voice to empower barristers in consultative and advocacy areas to reach their peak effectiveness. This is a practical and interactive session which aims to equip them with tools for dealing with performance nerves and creating a strong courtroom presence.

Objectives:

•   Techniques for opening up the voice to create more clarity and gravitas

•    A tool for dealing with ‘rushing.’ This is one of the top problems that crops up on our surveys

•    Handling performance nerves by working with breath and body awareness

•    Body language and its significance in clear communication

•    Tips for delivering a clear story

Learning Outcomes:

•    An ability to stay centred under pressure

•    Acquiring a voice that speaks with confidence, colour and gravitas

•    Mindfulness practise as a means of staying centred

•    Breathing techniques that reduce stress and anxiety

•    Body language awareness in order to maintain status

Richard is a master voice and presentation coach delivering training on The Reader’s Course since 2012, and also at Lander and Rogers, Freehills, Maddocks, Victoria Legal Aid, and The NSW Bar Assoc. His former life as a theatre director gives him expertise in performance coaching, and also teaching storytelling methodology. At Monash University he won the VC’s award for excellence in teaching. His book Raise Your Voice is in the Vic Bar library.

Mary is a mediator, facilitator and executive coach. She is certified in a number of diagnostics including iEQ9, Leadership Circle Profile, GLWS, MBTI Step I and II. She supports her clients while they strategically navigate difficulty, complex and challenging situations, emotional triggers, change and growth. Her professional life is nourished by her decades' long meditation practice and study of Buddhist philosophy.

“I came to Richard for Voicework but what I got was so much more…”

Nicola Collingwood: Devers List

Mary is sincere, generous and an absolute expert in what she does. As is Richard, who is witty, passionate and refreshingly honest. Together they are a vibrant duo that captures and holds the attention of their audience. The content they deliver is practical and relevant – it’s not often you leave a workshop feeling like you have a catalogue of best practices and tips you can draw from and begin using immediately. You absolutely do when you’ve finished a session with Mary and Richard”

Katie Sunter | Learning & Development, K & L Gates LLP

VENUE: Level 1, Owen Dixon Chambers East, 205 William Street.

COST: $100

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This is an in-person event only.