• Transformational Speaking
• Speak Out!  From Information to Illumination
• Ta Da! Enlivening Your Communications, On or Off the Speaking Platform

Hollyhock Retreat Centre on British Columbia's wilderness coast. The 2008 program has completed. Watch for dates in late April/early May 2009.

Bring your speaking alive. Expand your capacity to speak out and be heard.The ability to move others has little to do with your facts and information. It comes from eliminating fear and distrust of expressing your deepest values. In this lively experiential program, give voice to what has fire and meaning for you and explore speaking from your “home zone”, your place of personal power and authenticity. Bring your speaking alive and get results by making an emotional connection with others so they hear what you are saying.

Transformational Speaking is an experience that takes you to the heart of what you want to say. Rather than imposing technique that removes you from your passion, you’ll learn to trust your inherent capacity to communicate, celebrating your individuality and originality. Then we’ll move to the art of speaking, where you’ll receive personal tips to demonstrate how small changes make a big difference in your capacity to reach an audience.

We emerge with a clear statement of our gifts and talents, of what's real in our lives, and what's next. These final statements are videotaped to take home.

Attendance is limited to allow brief personal coaching for each person.

TUITION: $525 + $30 materials fee CDN, (meals & accommodation extra), 4 nights

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Friday, May 30 - 9 am to 3 pm at Whidbey Institute, Langley, WA.  $125 includes lunch.
To register please send an email to info@whidbeyinstitute.org or call 360-341-1884

Build your communication skills to catalyze personal and planetary change in this condensed workshop with master teacher Gail Larsen that provides a solid foundation on which to build. Whether you want to enhance your non-profit, business or social enterprise, you will discover and appreciate your individual communications strengths and the power of your story to make the human connection that sets the stage for your message to be heard, even with audiences whose worldviews and values may differ from your own. Gail’s classes are lively, engaging, supportive, and fun, inviting you to call forth your best as you stretch to the size of your calling. back to top

Ta Da! Is a weekend "playshop" to discover the voices you've silenced that bring you fully alive!

In indigenous cultures, there is a belief that each of us carries our own "Original Medicine," nowhere else duplicated. If we do not bring forward our unique gifts and talents, they are lost to the world for all time.  Yet often those true gifts are hidden beneath the "professional" or "appropriate" voice with which we've learned to lead our lives.

What is deep inside of you that yearns to be expressed? In this adventure of reflection, integration and self-expression, you will mine the deep well of your life experience. You will stand on the New Edge of your life experience and discover voices you have silenced that have the power to bring you fully alive. You will give voice to the stirrings of your soul. And you will leave with a videotape of your not-to-be-ignored statement of your gifts and talents, of what's real in your life, and what's next.

Ta Da! was first launched in June 2002 and was the subject of a feature article —"Now You're Talking — Workshop Goes Beyond Sweaty Palms to Get to the Voice of the Heart"  in the July 21 Santa Fe New Mexican.

Note: While not a class on speaking and presentation skills, the exploration in Ta Da! is fundamental to encouraging your own deepest expression, removing obstacles to your power to communicate, and to becoming a compelling speaker.

Click here for Testimonials for Tada!

Ta Da! is  offered at Omega at The Crossings in Austin, Texas, as a weekend program.  It is not currently scheduled.

Omega at the Crossings is a progressive learning center and world-class spa.  Located in the Texas Hill Country with magnificent lake views, it provides an exquisite setting for learning and personal growth.  Think Tex-Zen! back to top