SHINE CREATIVE COACHING

Changing your accent takes dedication, time, attention and practice. A small group coaching experience can provide you with the regular, specific practice necessary to help you assimilate new sounds quickly and effectively. I'll teach you all the nuts and bolts of North American speech sounds, in an engaging and supportive atmosphere.

Each course is 6 weeks in length, and the courses can be taken in any order.

In Course A, we'll focus on the sounds of General American English:

• You'll gain a clear understanding of the most important sound changes for your voice

• You'll practice hearing, feeling, and reproducing standard North American consonant sounds

• Develop your vocabulary

• Begin to implement these sounds into your everyday speech

• Have the opportunity to apply these changes to a piece of public speaking, if you'd like to

In Course B, you'll develop your listening and speaking abilities so that you can:

• Use pitch, volume and length correctly at the word and sentence level

• Recognize and reproduce the eight most common intonation patterns at the word level

• Recognize and reproduce the eight most common intonation patterns at the sentence level

• Develop your vocabulary

• Begin to implement these patterns into your everyday speech

• Have the opportunity to apply these changes to a piece of public speaking, if you'd like to

Following a typical course of 10 hours of training over 5 weeks, you can expect to be heard and understood much more easily in business meetings and casual conversation, and to feel greater confidence and ease when you speak.
 

Course B: Intonation Patterns of Neutral North American

This course focuses on the syllable stress, musicality, and rhythms of Neutral North American.

Next Session TBA

Location: 50 Carroll Street

Cost: $600 + tax per course, weekly group session, and weekly phone mini-coaching included.

Course A: The Sounds of Neutral North American

This course focuses on the consonant and vowel changes most commonly needed to achieve a clearer, more neutral sound.

Next Session in Starts in March 2018

Location: 50 Carroll Street

Cost: $600 + tax per course, weekly group session, and weekly phone mini-coaching included.

*if you'd like to add on a set of 3 private coachings to compliment the group class, that option is also available.

Register below, or contact me for more info.

My personalized, one-on-one coaching sessions focus on your specific needs. We will give concentrated attention to an upcoming presentation and teach you all of the skills that we teach in our group sessions, tailored to areas in which you need to see particular improvement.

Our private coaching sessions help you to gain insight into what you do beautifully and into what you could develop further. With my help, you will master new techniques in order to fortify weaknesses in your presentation skills, and in order to ensure passionate, bold, and inspired delivery.

Who should attend?

• management-level personnel who regularly present and would like to improve audience engagement
• speakers preparing for a specific upcoming event (e.g., sales presentation, annual general meeting) who would like to give extra polish to their work
• people who would benefit from the supportive and interactive format of individual, tailored learning

Whether the accent you need is from across the pond, south of the 49th parallel or all the way around the world, I can help! With me you'll learn your accent in a fun and creative atmosphere that is as technically specific as it is imaginative and supportive.

Need coaching in a hurry for a last minute audition? Don't hesitate to get in touch. If there's a way to fit you in, I'll do it!

Through coaching, you'll:

• gain a thorough and specific understanding of the sound changes required to take on your new accent

• experience an embodied understanding of the required rhythms and intonation patterns

• apply these changes directly to your script

• learn a systemic approach to accent acquisition that will enable you to prepare and rehearse any accent

Email or call to book.

This work is for actors who want to develop a stronger, more connected, more expressive voice for stage and screen.

We'll utilize the Linklater vocal progression to develop and strengthen the voice through connecting breath to sound, exploring resonance, flying up and down through pitch, exercising breathing power to support the voice, and building more specific connection to speech sounds and language.

If you are an actor or voice teacher considering Linklater Designation, I am currently training several people working towards the winter 2018 designation intake and would be happy to discuss that process with you.