Notes from a Toastmaster’s speech.

Going for her Leadership Bronze; She has her Communicator Silver.

– She paid a little bit of money to the mastery of three keys to learn all about body language.
– She is the board, so we can go ahead and maintain eye contact.
– Release energy
– Often we are speaking we are nervous. Stretching out your arms will let you not be tight
– Keep people’s attention
– She used a rubber band and appears to be preparing to shoot somebody and asks if she has our attention
– Facial Expressions
– Help us emphasize emotion and be an addition to our body motions.
– Match our body to our tone.
– She goes into a stiff stance to illustrate the match of voice to gestures
– Three skits and she is going to judge them.
– She gives three snowballs (wadded up paper) to Devon and Mary.
– She has them stand side by side.
– She tells them to throw a snowball at her if her body language illustrates what she is saying.
– She says things that contradict what her body language is.
– She says things that match what her body language is and they throw snowballs at her.
– Gestures
– Can reinforce body languages
– Avoid mannerisms – that distract from a speech.
– People jingling coins in a pocket during a speech
– 3 types of gestures
– Contemporary
– Description – I caught a humungous fish. It was awesome. She shows her fingers spread
– Emotional – Three people that like movies
– Raiders of the Lost Arch
– Star Wars
– Gone with the Wind
– She asks Paige to redo the scene/dialog of Raiders “asps very dangerous. Why does it have to be Asps.”
– Han Solo said “I thought they smelled bad outside.”
– She gave them treats from a tray for doing well.

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