Hi,
I have the NLP Steve Andreas's book, "Heart of Mind" and would like to help someone get over their fear of public speaking, specifically presentations in class and college comps.
When exploring what it was that made the presentations scary for her, she told me that she was not a very concise person. She explains things in a convoluted way. While she speaks English extremely fluently and without an accent, it's a second language and she doesn't feel she has a very strong grasp of it (I think she does. You wouldn't guess it wasn't her 1st language).
This makes her extremely nervous to the point she freezes up and just doesn't say anything for a long time, until she pushes herself to keep going in the presentation.
I'm having trouble thinking of reframes for this, like the ones presented in the book. What would others do to help?
English as Second Language
3 posts
• Page 1 of 1
by Mark Tyrrell » Thu Sep 16, 2004 12:11 pm
Hi Zanther 
An idea that immediately comes to mind is to talk to her about attention and focus.
People focus their attention on the unusual. A foreign accent can atually be morefocussing than a more familiar one.
One of the best speakers I know works here in England. He has a heavy southeren Irish accent. Some of his words are a little hard to understand until you grow accustomed to his way of speaking. Because of this people really pay him attention when he speaks. Scarce commodities are valuable commodities. A different from the run of the mill accent has a type of value precisely because it is notthe norm.
Just a thought hope it helps in some way.
Mark
An idea that immediately comes to mind is to talk to her about attention and focus.
People focus their attention on the unusual. A foreign accent can atually be morefocussing than a more familiar one.
One of the best speakers I know works here in England. He has a heavy southeren Irish accent. Some of his words are a little hard to understand until you grow accustomed to his way of speaking. Because of this people really pay him attention when he speaks. Scarce commodities are valuable commodities. A different from the run of the mill accent has a type of value precisely because it is notthe norm.
Just a thought hope it helps in some way.
Mark
- Mark Tyrrell
- Uncommon Knowledge Staff
- Posts: 492
- Joined: Tue Sep 16, 2003 9:14 pm
- Likes Received: 0
3 posts
• Page 1 of 1