Talk training

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• Detailed course outline
• Course dates and venues

Transition talk training

This is a one day course in how to give an effective talk on Transition, aimed for people in a Transition Initiative to help them raise awareness and inspire others.

It'll cover Peak Oil, Climate Change and the mechanics of Transition, along with the subtler subject of the inner transition. We will also focus on the skills for good and effective public talks.

By the end of the training day, you'll be armed with a solid presentation that you can adopt to your own style, a set of facts and figures to underpin your talk, an understanding of some of the deeper aspects of transition, and a new level of confidence to deliver presentations with flair, authority and maybe a bit of humour too. We delivered the first instance of it in Totnes on 12-Jan-08, and it was extremely well received,and have now delivered this training in many other initiatives and all around the world.

If you want to request to have this training in your part of the country please email our training co-ordinator to discuss how this might happen.

We can't promise to kit you out with the charisma (or hairstyle) of a true legend, but there's a latent performer in all of us, and if we can harness that passion, we all have the capacity to get an audience fired up and wanting to take action.

Detailed course outline

Morning

Introduction: a short introduction to the day and personal introductions around the group

Purpose and Structure

• Look at the structure of a Transition Initiative talk
• What is a good presentation? Discuss good/bad presentation qualities. How to give feedback
• Getting clear on the purpose of your talk
• Six principles
• 12 Steps – where are we now? – local and national picture
• Considering the context of your presentation
• Summary of structure

Exploring the Context of Transition

• How do we communicate about the context for Transition?
• Some time to look at and discuss the subjects of peak oil, climate change and social justice and ecology using a self teaching, experiential method.

Break

The Transition Town Model

• Early Phases – 12 Ingredients
• Practise explaining a slide on the Transition process to the group

Elevator pitches

• Using the format of the elevator pitch to pitch your project with practise and group feedback

Lunch

Using your Body

• How to warm up before talks
• Dealing with nerves
• Presentation tips
• Considering your audiences values and concerns – being compelling and relevant

Final section of talk

• Where your TT has got to or where are you locally, or regionally?
• Explaining the global Transition Town movement
• Some inspiration

Dealing with Difficult questions

• Group brainstorm of what are the difficult questions you might face as a presenter and what might good answers be?

The inner journey

• Paired listening – what has your inner journey of transition been like?
• What has been the emotional impact of this day, or Transition Town events that you have been to?
• Group discussion on how to handle the inner side of giving talks, what structures you might use.

A listening exercise

• Include in your evening plan time for processing and digestion

Break

Practical

• Put a whole talk together in a small group using various materials
• give the talk

Next Steps - (how? When? What? Where? Who? Questions)

• Who are you going to give a talk to?
• How are you going to advertise it?
• What support do you need and where will you get it?
• Set yourself an aim that will take you forward – may want to share with the group

Creating a support / outreach group

• Closing discussion
• Set timetable for next steps / giving talks..video day.. powerpoint training?
• Outreach group
• Point to background materials
• Form a support group to get bookings, share resources, work together and provide back up for each other
• Practice giving the talk to each other; gather some video resources and give each other feedback.

Close

Information which will be supplied

• Template talk on Transition
• CD of resources
• All Presentations from the course

Up and coming Transition Talk Training dates and details