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The Neuroscience of Attention
Unlock the Biology of Attention
Learn the mechanisms of attention in the human brain, and understand how these mechanisms work in real life set-ups. No mystique, no fumbling about. Just science.
Apply to your own Presentation
Apply the understanding acquired in the first session to your own presentation, in one practical session. Translate the knowledge into tools and reshape the content and delivery of your presentation.
Put in Practice
To do is to learn. Practice with a real audience and get real feedback on your speech or presentation.
"I need to get them to listen."
"How do I keep them interested to hear more?"
"What if they get bored halfway?"
"I just need them to pay attention for 10 minutes. That's all I ask."
If these thoughts have crossed your mind, this public speaking workshop is for you.
Capturing and holding the attention of the audience is a main concern for speakers and presenters everywhere. Whether we are teaching something, pitching an idea, or looking to inspire, the first condition for all these things to happen is to have the attention of our audience.
Luckily, you don't need to be a storytelling genius to be able to engage your audience for the entire duration of your presentation. You just need to understand how attention works.
Together with Arnaud Complainville from the Neuromindfulness® Institute, we will look at the neuroscience of attention in a public speaking context and understand how to capture it, hold it, and re-gain it, when it wanders off.
MEET YOUR TRAINERS
We will be your companions on this journey.
Arnaud Complainville
Managing Partner
Arnaud has both a scientific background, with a PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology, and a business background, with an MBA from HEC Paris.
Arnaud is trained as an Evolutionary Coaching and Cultural Transformation Tools Consultant with the Barrett Values Center. He has been a mindfulness practitioner for over 10 years, with an emphasis on breathing techniques and a passion for the latest discoveries in neuroscience.
currently counts 7000 hours of leadership development and coaching, and 9000 leaders who have followed their programs.
Ioana Jongsma
Public Speaking Coach
Ioana has been helping speakers find their words since 2008. She has trained and coached executives in a variety of industries (tech, banking, legal, pharma, automotive, healthcare, education, policy) to be better communicators and presenters in English.
Ioana is also a TEDx speaker coach affiliated with TEDxOdense.
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Unlock the Biology of Attention
18 Jan 2022
Trainer: Arnaud
In this session, we will lay the foundation for the course and de-mistify what it means to grab and hold someone's attention.
We will learn:
› Where attention "lives" in the human brain: the regions associated with attention and what activates them
› What happens in the human brain when our attention drifts, and what that means in the context of presenting and public speaking
› How to identify the conditions required by the nervous system of our audience, for attention and engagement to take place
Apply to your own Presentation
25 Jan 2022
Trainer: Ioana
In this session we will apply the understanding acquired in the first session to your own presentation.
We will:
› Translate knowledge into practical tools
› Observe these tools in action, in a number of case studies
› Learn how to employ our ideas, our body language and our voice into the mechanisms of attention
› Discuss the role of visual aids (slides, graphs, videos, pictures) and when they help focus the attention of the audience or rather act as a distraction
› Look at one concrete presentation and apply these tools to your content
Put in Practice
01 Feb 2022
Trainers: Ioana & Arnaud
To do is to learn. In this session, we will practice with a real audience and get real feedback on our talks.
We will:
› Deliver our talks to a live audience
› Invite honest and constructive feedback that will guide us to improve our content as well as our delivery
› Celebrate our achievements.
18 Jan 2022 - Unlock the Biology of Attention - Neuroscience session
25 Jan 2022 - Apply to your own Presentation - Preparation for Presenting
01 Feb 2022 - Put in Practice - Public Speaking practical session
Sessions take place on Zoom, from 15.00 - 18.00 CET
CLIENTS' WORDS
Ioana is an outstanding, highly competent and proficient coach for speakers, to upgrade their communication and presentation skills and be the best expression of themselves on stage.
Ioana has a very supportive, yet a challenging and facilitating approach to help people generate transformational insights towards fulfillment of their dreams and goals.
I have personally experienced Ioana to support me in curating and sharpening my message for the TEDx talk. It was indeed a very meaningful and enriching experience working with Ioana.
I strongly recommend Ioana to those who wish to elevate their speaking skills and present their message with power and impact to a large audience.
Ajai Lal
Leadership and Executive Coach
Colonel in the Indian Army (Veteran), Former Senior Military Observer – United Nations
I really enjoyed our Tuesday sessions, I learnt so many things! And you will not believe it : I already put them in practice. Today I informed my department about the changes in our organisational structure and I followed your questions to prepare my short speech : what you want the audience to know, and what you want them to feel.
I want to thank you so much!
Anastasia Fetsi
European Training Foundation
When is the next part?! 😍
Maria Lvova
European Training Foundation
Ioana is a genius in supporting the person she works with and in uncovering the sharp and genuine message they want to share. In each session I felt re-motivated and understood. Ioana never tried to push my talk in any other direction that what truly was my intention.
Language wise, Ioana was also of great assistance in seeking more precise phrases and expressions to make the talk as powerful as possible within the framework.
I have worked with quite a number of editors. Only two have been a true source of betterment of my product. Ioana is the number 1 of those two.
She truly has been a professional gamechanger.
I can recommend Ioana to anyone who wishes to share their core message with a broader audience. Ioana will make sure you and your work will excel on stage!
Lene Gammelgaard
Survivor of the 1996 Everest disaster
A real treat doing these TuesdayTalks with you, Ioana, thank you!
Anette Rømer
TV Formats Consultant
Dear Ioana,
THANK YOU so much for a great online workshop, it has been so inspiring and started an internal progress.
Karenmaria Molie Margareth Damgaard
Creative Entrepreneur
Dear Ioana,
Thank you for an excellent course, it certainly gave me very useful tips and insights into public speaking.
Erja Kaikkonen
European Training Foundation
Ioana pushed me to dig deeper and challenged me in a way that was scary at first, but it resulted in a personal and beautiful talk – suited for the red dot. She was extremely supportive and gave me the courage to tell my real story! She was a challenger and supporter, and while she helped, she made sure that the talk was still my own words.
It would not have been the same talk without her!
Sofie Woge
Founder & CEO, tendo
Cost per attendee: 750*
The 3 sessions build on each other and cannot be booked separately.
*including VAT
** For non-VAT payments and invoices, contact ioana[at]stillwords.com
Cost expressed in EUR
Attention is the ability we have to discriminate and to focus only on what we want to perceive.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
