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Public Speaking, Darren Tay Wen Jie

🌟 Unveiling the Timeless Thread of Storytelling: From Griots to Hip Hop 📜✨ Last Friday, LAMDA (London Academy of Music & Dramatic Art)'s Teacher Training Day opened a window into the evolution of storytelling when one of my brilliant colleagues shared this TedX talk: https://lnkd.in/evAPkcfh 🌍 The Talk draws an inspiring parallel between hip-hop storytelling and the rich African griot tradition. It was a captivating reminder that storytelling has been an integral part of history, in this example, the passing down through generations by griots—keepers of oral history and tradition. 🎙️ Akala eloquently showcases how hip-hop artists have become modern-day griots, using their lyrical prowess to narrate stories of struggle, resilience, and triumph in the face of adversity. 💬 From the rhythmic cadence of griots to the linguistic innovation within hip-hop, the talk underscored the enduring power of language in shaping narratives across time and cultures. 🌈 As educators, enthusiasts, and learners, let's recognize the profound impact of storytelling. It's a call to embrace one's narrative heritage, acknowledging how it has shaped us, and continues to shape the narratives of today. Celebrating this rich history, I feel proud to be a part of an industry that appreciates how storytelling is both transcendental and fundamental in the world we live in #Storytelling #AfricanGriotTradition #HipHopEvolution #EducationalJourney

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Check out my latest video! This week I'm sharing a little snippet of the exclusive content that I offer to my private clients on the F.I.R.E. Network! Would love to hear what you think! This week's topic is how much context influences the way we communicate and our experience of other people's communication. Check it out! https://lnkd.in/gZUu7j5Y

"The stories we tell have the power to change people's lives." That's what Samantha Morton highlighted in her emotional acceptance speech, as she received the BAFTA Fellowship Award. As PR professionals, we must consistently and continually ask ourselves: What story are we telling today? And who is the storyteller? These are important questions that remind us of the transformative power of our work. #publicrelations #storieschangeeverything Watch the video to see Samantha Morton's moving speech:

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World class TED Talk on public speaking. Fear of death ranks below fear of public speaking. This talk focuses on the what, why and how to change your experience. https://lnkd.in/gBshzisq

I'd like to share my first Eoan Strategies blog post, where I offer some personal reflections that helped shape my POV on #communications. Let me know what you think. https://lnkd.in/eP9jNtPh

https://lnkd.in/e2CuZ9Fa * Why do the stories we share resonate with us, but frequently fall flat with our listeners? * Is the message we transcribe to our friends, colleagues, and audience powerful enough to make an impact? * This complex communication problem is as old as time and for centuries writers, orators, and thought leaders have offered insightful resolutions. * Important to discern, according to Nancy Duarte, is the change concern. How will our message change people’s thinking, help others, serve the audience, and give us hope? Duarte in her famous TEDx talk shares with us the structure of a great speech, the construction of a great correspondence, and “the shape of a great presentation.” * Duarte posits that we must contrast what is, with what could be, and compare the two to make that gap as wide as possible. Take the common place status quo and compare that with the loftiness of the possible future state. Duarte says that we need to make our message communicate and amplify that gap, so that people are moved to see the past problems, to feel the current obstacles, and to breakthrough the roadblocks, annihilating any doubts, that we will be interrupted, held back, or stopped from realizing our ideal, our idea, and our newly forged common definite chief aim. * This is important because we are emotive to meaningful messages that have the potential to make us or break us. Messages of consequence pivot around our hearts, direct our minds, and guide our emotions towards the bias of action. In order to communicate transformative ideas, we need to take our stories and highlight their contrasts, we need to underscore their cross-roads, and we need to embolden the message for the audience, so that they too may join us with their own meaningful journey of change, of struggle, and of hardships as they listen. * Stories are living ideas that have the powerful potential to inform, reform, and transform our reality. * Therefore, to resonate with others and make an impact, we must engage, encourage, and empower people to learn the shape of a successful, effective, and empathetic communication structure. So that we can give people insightful tools to share their own personal stories with us, while we listen! 

https://lnkd.in/gwvEzHRt This is an oldie but a good one!!! How can I take this to the next level.... Got an event that might benefit from such a talk? Let me know! exploring ways to spread the message more