
Master stage presence and storytelling to deliver a memorable message, hook your audience, and make people feel, using proven public speaking techniques from twenty five years of experience.
Conquer stage fright and fear of public speaking with practical tools from the help zone, and learn to love the stage in this course on presentation skills and storytelling.
Learn to speak clearly, communicate effectively, and present confidently to engage audiences, sharpen your opinions in debates and philosophy classes, and overcome shyness through storytelling and stage skills.
Master stage presence with a two-minute power pose to lower cortisol and adrenaline, breathe slowly, and envision a smooth, confident talk to prevent a blackout before you go on stage.
Memorize your talk using the memory house method, walking a familiar route through your home—door, living room, kitchen—while recording into a memo app and replaying your talk. Start with storytelling, a hook, or a question, and connect with the audience using paced delivery, pauses, and the five top speaking tools to engage throughout.
Explore how storytelling engages the brain, as Kendall Haven's 'your brain on story' reveals neural responses and a five-part storytelling frame: main character, helper, antagonist, struggle, resolution.
Discover the power of vulnerability and personal storytelling to connect with audiences. Brené Brown's Ted talk shows how sharing your story can create impact, authenticity, and lasting influence.
Develop a dynamic tonality by varying pitch, volume, and pace to keep the audience engaged, using melody and infotainment to emphasize key points.
Relax on stage and talk to one person; use natural, confident arm gestures that come from your body. Trust your instincts to gesture when you make points.
Learn best tips from a 25-year public speaking coach on achieving flow, using personal storytelling, and building audience connection to move from fear to impactful talks.
Explore toastmasters.org and join a local club to advance public speaking and personal leadership through a weekly, structured education program with six-minute talks, audience evaluation, and international contest opportunities.
As one of the leading coaches of presentation skills, public speaking, and storytelling in Scandinavia, I have throughout my career, coached everything from scientists, who need to present their research in a way that makes people listen by incorporating storytelling, to entrepreneurs who need to become better at pitching their company, students who want to become more confident on stage, and everything in between. Usually, it's the same few things I help them with; How to create speeches that make people listen, how to become confident on stage, and how to remember your speech.
A lot of courses have tens, or sometimes even 100+ hours of content, which is great if you want to learn everything there is about presentation skills. However, my experience tells me that most people simply want to learn the essential skills that will give them 95% of the results. This is exactly why I created this course. You will learn the essentials of public speaking, storytelling, and how to present in a way that makes people listen.
You will learn the most essential things you need to give a presentation, speech, or keynote. You will learn tools and techniques that will help you remember your speech, how to storytell, how to engage the audience, how to be confident on stage, and how to use your body. Most importantly, you will learn how to relax (and even have fun) on stage, while keeping the audience highly engaged.
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Asbjorn Jensen will personally critique your storytelling abilities. This is one the most essential things when learning how to tell you story on stage. This is the most meaningful and helpful part of the storytelling course.
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For all the students: You can post videos of yourself storytelling in the Q&A section (with a link). And I will get back to you and personally give you constructive criticism.