BUILDING A NEW GENERATION OF GREAT SPEAKERS
What I do.
"At Speak Like A Pro, I don't just teach people to speak - I teach them to be heard, seen, and remembered. I help them turn fear into freedom, internal power into external presence"
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Why?
Because when someone finds their voice, they change their life.​
Benefits of Voice & Speech Lessons
Your child's voice is a reflection of their condition the moment he or she speaks. It's the product of their anatomy, physiology, neurology, cultural background, health and psychological status. Their ability to speak proficiently, confidently, and effectively can have a profound impact on their progress in life. Sadly, children who fail to speak-up tend to go unnoticed, have fewer friends, miss out on leadership opportunities, and have lower self-esteem. These are sad facts, but very true. Here's a conservative list of the benefits of voice and speech lessons and how it can help bolster your child's confidence he or she needs to survive and thrive!
Articulation & Resonance
Proper articulation makes your child understandable. A resonant voice makes others want to listen to them.
Breath Control
The extensive breathing exercises practiced eventually gives your child a great control over their breath leading to better speech, overall fitness and mentation.
Emotionality & Expressiveness
A child's voice has an intimate relationship with emotions. Their voice induces emotions! Studying voice releases and frees one's emotions and expressiveness.
Confidence
Your child's voice is a mirror of themselves; their inner thoughts. A confident voice is a confident child. A confident child eventually becomes a confident adult!
Posture & Alignment
Voice work involves training your child to posture and balance well to release tensions and allow natural movement and poise. The Alexander Technique.
Mental Clarity
A relaxed tongue, jaw, lips and body allows thoughts to flow with clarity and purpose.
Respiratory Fitness
Voice study involves a large amount of focused breath-work from a combination of modern and ancient (eg. yoga, Bel canto) practice.
Mobility & Flexibility
The exercises and stretches practiced in voice work covers the entire body; not just the throat. You speak with your whole body!
Reading Fluency
Releasing tensions in the tongue, jaw, and voice box improves text accuracy, speed, and expressiveness of reading.
STEP 1
Assessment
At this first step, my focus is on getting to know you or your child. I'll make careful assessments of speech patterns and habits, both good and bad! We discuss your struggles and goals. This is important because everyone has different speech struggles and issues holding them back from freedom and this is the stage we iron that out. It's a time to just be yourself and allow me to tailor a program specific to you or your child's needs.
STEP 2
Preparation
You see, just like being an Olympic swimmer requires many (many!) hours of warm-ups, exercise routines, and hundreds of hours in the pool, being a great orator is no different. You need to develop good habits. Get rid of the bad ones you've been practicing all these years. Yup, you'll need to warm-up, stretch, relax yourself, be more self-conscious of your alignment and tensions, and allow the voice to resonate. We cover warm-up's, stretching, body alignment, and most importantly, breath work! Yes we'll be doing intensive breath-work because a speaker is only as good as his or her fine control over the breath. All this requires lots of practice! Actors take years to achieve vocal excellence. Think Morgan Freeman or Jeremy Irons. This step is (I promise you!) absolutely life changing! Even if you don't become the next Obama or Malala, you'll surely gain more confidence and freedom as an individual.
STEP 3
Training
Now we move to the more nuanced parts of speech. The fine tuning of the voice. We cover articulation, enunciation, pauses, inflections, melody, pace, tone, body posture, and vocal projection. In other words, how do you read a grocery list and yet sound captivating! How do you stand on stage, look the crowd in the eyes, and deliver a speech with confidence and charisma? And if you were wondering, yes your child can begin training for it now. In fact, the earlier the better as they have a less chance of developing bad habits.
STEP 4
Action
Ok now this is where the tire hits the road! We speak into a mic.Put on a RODE headset and learn to love our voice coming out of a speaker. We video record our movement and analyse it for improvement. By this time, if you had diligently practiced all the material we covered, you will be able to stand (or sit!) and deliver that speech. You will be a more confident person as compared to when you first started. You will be able to speak up to injustice and that bully at work. You would most likely have a new voice and you might even have discovered a brand new you. Just like how I did ;)
Professional
Voice Actor & Narrator
Inventor of the VoIXStraw™
Designer of the SPHERE™ & LOOSE™ Voice Methods
Registered Practitioner​
Affordable
Prices kept low to ensure affordability.
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Studio
Air conditioned
Carpeted
Fully Equipped​
Pro equipment
Fully equipped studio with industry standard equipment
Child-safe
Current Working With Children Check
Family Friendly Studio
Cafe
Cafe located 5 mins away. Great place to go while waiting for your child.
55 min
55 Australian dollars