
Master storytelling and public speaking to elevate women’s voices, explore the great structure for talks, draw your life, and use practical exercises and tools for powerful speakers.
Explore how storytelling uses language, voice, and body to create images that move the heart and memory. Learn why stories unite humanity, predate writing, and guide meaning.
Reclaim women's roles in history by recognizing the Matilda effect and androcentric storytelling, and empower diverse female voices to tell stories across film, literature, and media.
Map your life as a narrative with moments and defining words; identify highs and lows to reveal your authentic story, and embrace choice, vulnerability, and connecting the dots.
Identify the driving why behind your project using the golden circle: what, how, and why. Connect this why to your audience through a personal story and clear future dream.
Apply the me, us, now structure to turn a personal story into a broader, data-supported message that ends with a clear call to action.
Be mindful of language that erases women and reinforces stereotypes; use empowering words, avoid androcentric terms, and practice positive self-talk and compliments to boost confidence in public speaking.
Improve stage presence by adopting open, anchored body posture, avoiding shrinking, and using power poses, eye contact, controlled breathing, and varied voice to engage the audience.
Choose outfits that empower you, establish rituals to ease stage fright, and stay mindful to connect with the audience as a confident channel for your message.
Turn your dream project into reality by prototyping a minimum viable product, networking with peers in the field, and starting something on the side with self-funding when needed.
Those who tell the stories rule the world. Yet, most of the stories we listen to are about men, written by men. It’s time to make Herstory! It’s time that female gamechangers all around the world learn the best public speaking skills to spread their message and influence. Aurélie Salvaire founded and curated TEDxBarcelonaWomen for 3 years and has coached TEDx speakers to give their best stories to the world. Now, through her organization Shiftbalance, she is unlocking the potential of hundreds of women, giving birth to their own special message, discovering the perfect story, creating an alchemy out of simple life events.
In this course, you will learn the tactics and tools that have made public speakers famous worldwide. Aurelie will give you concrete examples of women whom she has coached around the world, from France to Pakistan, from Spain to Kazakhstan, from the US to Lebanon. She will teach you how to leverage new media in order to convey your message to a larger audience.
Whether you are a corporate employee wishing to deliver powerful presentations, or an entrepreneur wishing to pitch your special project, whether you want to run for office or simply have a dream in mind, this course will help you become an outstanding, authentic and powerful public speaker able to impact the audience. After completing this course, you will have the tools to draft your own speech and deliver it in the most persuasive way to leave a lasting impact.
We believe that stories have the power to balance the world. The #metoo movement has proven that sharing our stories can have a tremendous impact. This course will prepare you to be the type of leader or 21st century needs. Now is the time to take action!